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Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for this 2-hour virtual workshop designed to launch the year with Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story—a powerful unit that helps students dive deep into their reading lives and build complex ideas about characters, stories, and themes.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that launches fourth-grade writers into a rich and reflective personal narrative unit. In Spinning True Stories into Gold, students learn to turn the moments of their lives—big and small—into crafted, meaningful stories that sparkle with voice, structure, and craft.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that launches fifth-grade readers into the most powerful reading unit of the year. In Interpretation Book Clubs, students learn to read deeply, think interpretively, and discuss literature with thoughtfulness, voice, and evidence. This unit moves students beyond comprehension into big ideas and debate—reading as thinkers, scholars, and community members.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that launches fifth-grade writers into the deeply personal and transformative work of personal narrative. In Turning Life Into Literature, students learn to mine their lives for stories that speak to who they are and what they believe, crafting powerful narratives with meaning, voice, and intention.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that jump-starts the middle-school writing workshop. You’ll leave with a clear, practical plan for the opening weeks of school—establishing routines, teaching cornerstone mini-lessons, and building a community where every writer feels ready to draft, revise, and share.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that jump-starts the middle-school reading workshop. You’ll leave with a clear plan for the first weeks of school—routines, mini-lessons, and community-building moves that set students up for a year of engaged, purposeful reading.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.

Get ready to launch small group writing instruction with confidence! This hands-on virtual workshop from The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower will help you set your classroom up for success from day one.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that demystifies the brand-new Digital Writing platform and its AI feedback tools. You’ll set explore the digital Writer’s Notebooks and practice sending AI-generated responses. By the end, you’ll have an implementation game plan that raises the level of writing—without losing the human touch.

Teaching grammar and spelling can feel overwhelming—especially when it seems to eat up your precious writing time without showing lasting results.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that jump-starts the school year by weaving social-emotional learning into your literacy block. This session shows you how to use carefully chosen read-alouds, quick writing routines, and low-lift community builders to create a classroom where every child feels safe, valued, and ready to learn.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that reimagines the role of classroom libraries in K–2 classrooms through the lens of the science of reading and teacher-led classroom research.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that turns assessment into your most powerful lever for growing writers.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a virtual workshop that will help you thoughtfully and practically bring essential elements of the Science of Reading into your K–2 reading workshop.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop designed to bring Show and Tell Writing to life—Unit 2 of the Kindergarten Units of Study in Writing.

Join us for a 2-hour online workshop designed to support teachers in teaching Kindergarten, Unit 2: Sharing Reading.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop on teaching foundational informational writing through the pre-publication unit, How To Books: Writing to Teach Others.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that brings Word Detectives, the second unit in the Grade 1 Units of Study in Reading, to life.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop on Becoming Experts—a unit that turns second graders into curious and purposeful nonfiction readers.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that will guide you through Chapter Books: Writing Nonfiction from the Heart—a second-grade unit that helps students become powerful teachers through their writing.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop for Grade 3, Unit 2: Reading to Learn—a powerful nonfiction unit designed to set students up with the foundational skills they’ll need for a lifetime of learning through reading.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 3, Unit 2: Changing the World—a unit designed to teach students that their words and ideas have the power to make real change.

This edWebinar will explore how to use decodable texts effectively with older readers to build confidence, strengthen phonics skills, and foster a love of reading—even for students who have long felt stuck. The presenters will share practical strategies for selecting and integrating decodables into classroom routines, small-group instruction, and intervention settings without making students feel like they’re “back in kindergarten.”

Grade 3 Unit 2 brings your class into the world of nonfiction—and this session will help you teach it with clarity and joy. We’ll walk through the structure and goals of the first nonfiction unit of the year, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and centers on building knowledge through text sets. You’ll see how the unit supports students in tackling complex nonfiction, growing their vocabulary, and engaging in rich conversation and writing about reading. We’ll explore how to use the read aloud texts and how to make the most of the “teeny tiny texts” in small groups. Whether you’re new to teaching nonfiction or a veteran, this session will leave you ready to bring nonfiction to life in your classroom.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 4, Unit 2: Reading the Weather, Reading the World—a unit designed to spark students’ nonfiction reading lives and equip them with critical research skills that will serve them across all disciplines.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 4, Unit 2: Boxes and Bullets: Writing Essays and Arguments—a unit designed to give students a transformative entry into academic essay writing.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 5, Unit 2: Literary Essay—a unit designed to help young writers grow their ability to craft thoughtful, evidence-based essays about the texts they read and love.

Grade 4 Unit 2 brings your class into the world of nonfiction—and this session will help you teach it with clarity and joy. We’ll walk through the structure and goals of the first nonfiction unit of the year, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and centers on building knowledge through text sets. You’ll see how the unit supports students in tackling complex nonfiction, growing their vocabulary, and engaging in rich conversation and writing about reading. We’ll explore how to use the read aloud texts and how to make the most of the “teeny tiny texts” in small groups. Whether you’re new to teaching nonfiction or a veteran, this session will leave you ready to bring nonfiction to life in your classroom.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 5, Unit 2: Tackling Complexity—a unit designed to help young readers approach increasingly challenging nonfiction texts with flexibility, strategy, and confidence.

Grade 5 Unit 2 brings your class into the world of nonfiction—and this session will help you teach it with clarity and joy. We’ll walk through the structure and goals of the first nonfiction unit of the year, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and centers on building knowledge through text sets. You’ll see how the unit supports students in tackling complex nonfiction, growing their vocabulary, and engaging in rich conversation and writing about reading. We’ll explore how to use the read aloud texts and how to make the most of the “teeny tiny texts” in small groups. Whether you’re new to teaching nonfiction or a veteran, this session will leave you ready to bring nonfiction to life in your classroom.

Join us for a free virtual day of PD featuring Wiley Blevins, beloved author and phonics expert, who will kick off the day with an inspiring keynote. Afterward, choose from 100+ workshops led by Lucy Calkins, Katy Wischow, and other literacy leaders to lift your spirits, deepen your craft, and spark ideas to bring back to your classroom on Monday.

Strong oral language skills form the foundation for reading, writing, and thinking. In this study group, participants will study methods for building academic talk, storytelling, conversation, and oral rehearsal into daily literacy instruction.

Join Angela Báez and The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a virtual workshop that brings decodable texts to life—through the power of fantasy storytelling and foundational instruction. You’ll explore Moonlit Mountain Readers, a brand-new collection of engaging, phonics-aligned books, and learn concrete strategies for using decodables across your day to build joyful, successful readers. 

When students feel disregulated, learning and connection can fall apart. In this workshop, educator Becca Burk shares practical, classroom-tested tools that help K–5 students understand and manage their emotions. You’ll learn how to introduce the language of regulation, model coping strategies, and co-create tools like mood meters and regulation charts.

Whether you're teaching side-by-side every day or collaborating for parts of the week, strong co-teaching can make a world of difference for students. In this practical and energizing virtual workshop, Alicia Luick and The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower will share tried-and-true strategies to help co-teachers, paraprofessionals, and aides plan, teach, and problem-solve together with confidence.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.

Artificial intelligence is changing the way students read, write, and think—and it’s changing teaching, too. In this timely and practical virtual workshop, Phil Seyfried and The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower will guide K–12 educators through smart, strategic ways to integrate AI tools into reading and writing instruction.

Multilingual learners bring rich language resources and lived experiences to their writing. In this workshop, Sarah Mann and Cynthia Satterlee from The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower will share practical, asset-based strategies to support multilingual students at every stage of the writing process—from idea generation to revision to publication.

When your writers need different things and your time is stretched thin, a predictable and flexible small group structure can help you teach responsively without starting from scratch every day. In this workshop, Katie Even and The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower will guide you through one powerful structure—Rally, Try It #1, Try It #2—and show you how to use it across the year to lift the level of student writing.

This study group will focus on supporting third graders' phonics and word study needs, ensuring they continue to build automaticity and flexibility with increasingly complex words. We'll look at how to deliver systematic, explicit instruction while keeping learning playful, joyful, and connected to students' reading and writing work.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.

This study group will dive into research-based methods for developing rich, flexible vocabulary knowledge across grades 3-5. We will explore high-leverage instructional strategies-including contextualized word learning, generative word study, and vocabulary routines that are embedded into reading and writing instruction.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.

In this study group, we'll explore how the principles of the Science of Reading extend into writing instruction. Participants will unpack the intersections between transcription (handwriting, spelling, sentence construction) and composition, and study methods for building fluency, syntax, and coherence in student writing.

Across the 2025-2026 school year, literacy leaders from across Long Island will gather to build a shared vision for powerful, equitable reading, writing, and phonics instruction.