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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 Workshop 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.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Kindergarten, Unit 3: Super Powers: Reading with Phonics and Sight Word Power—a joyful, energetic unit that helps young readers discover and harness their reading "superpowers" to tackle print with growing confidence. This session will unpack the unit and show you how to boost phonics instruction, build independence, and empower students to see themselves as strong, strategic readers.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Kindergarten, Unit 3: Writing for Readers. This powerful unit teaches our youngest writers how to make their true stories not only meaningful but also readable—focusing on foundational conventions that help students write in ways others can understand. Learn how to help students stretch their growing writing muscles while fostering independence, stamina, and joy.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for this inspiring 2-hour virtual workshop on teaching informational writing through Topic Books—a newly reimagined unit designed to help young writers share what they know in clear, organized, and joyful ways.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 1, Unit 3: Learning About the World. This nonfiction reading unit invites students to dive into informational texts with curiosity and a researcher’s mindset. Learn how to support students in reading across pages, growing topic knowledge, and talking like experts.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 2, Unit 3: Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books. In this pivotal unit, students take on more complex texts by building stamina and strengthening decoding strategies. Learn how to support students as they move from early to transitional reading levels with confidence.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour online workshop on Grade 2, Unit 3: Finding Awesome Everywhere. In this joyful opinion writing unit, students learn to notice what’s wonderful in the world—and write passionately to share their views. Learn how to channel students’ voice and reasoning into compelling opinion pieces.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that unpacks the writing unit, An Introduction to Literary Essay. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to support students with transforming their ideas about stories into clear, evidence-based arguments—developing the foundational skills of literary analysis and essay writing.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that invites third graders into deep Character Studies—a unit that teaches readers to observe, infer, and grow evidence-based theories about characters, then trace how those characters travel across a story mountain. We’ll explore minilessons, talk structures, and read-alouds that help students move from noticing what characters do and say to interpreting why it matters—and how those insights lead to themes and life lessons.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that launches Detail and Synthesis: Close Reading of Fiction—a pre-publication resource that all participants will receive exclusive access to. This unit invites fourth graders to slow down, read deeply, and use details to build bigger ideas about characters, themes, and the parts of a story that matter most. Students learn to flag and talk their way toward interpretation, developing the habits of thoughtful readers who synthesize across texts and genres, including narrative nonfiction.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that supports teaching fourth graders with writing essays that capture the heart of fiction. This unit teaches students to analyze characters, themes, and author’s craft—and to present their ideas in well-structured literary essays.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that unpacks Research-Based Argument, a Unit that equips fifth-grade writers to research, evaluate evidence, and craft powerful argument essays. This Unit of Study teaches students to take a stance on real-world issues, strengthen their claims with research, and write persuasively for authentic audiences.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 2-hour virtual workshop that unpacks Research-Based Argument, a Unit that equips fifth-grade writers to research, evaluate evidence, and craft powerful argument essays. This Unit of Study teaches students to take a stance on real-world issues, strengthen their claims with research, and write persuasively for authentic audiences.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop designed to support middle school teachers in guiding students through the essential work of researching and writing arguments. Drawing on the Units of Study, this session will explore how to help adolescents investigate complex issues, weigh multiple perspectives, and craft argument essays that are both evidence-based and persuasive. We’ll examine how workshop structures—minilessons, independent practice, conferring, and debate—can be used to scaffold critical reading and writing skills while also giving students voice and agency in their work.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that brings vocabulary instruction to the center of reading workshop. Drawing on the latest research—and the brand-new vocabulary work that will be part of the upcoming Units of Study in Reading, Grades 3–5 (releasing for back to school 2026)—this session will help you teach word learning in ways that are practical, engaging, and lasting. You’ll see how explicit vocabulary instruction can be woven into minilessons, read-alouds, small groups, and independent reading so that students don’t just memorize words, but truly grow their comprehension, knowledge, and academic language.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that bridges research and practice. In this session, we’ll explore how the science of learning—from retrieval practice to distributed review, from knowledge building to metacognition—can move off the page of academic studies and into the lived routines of K–5 classrooms. Teachers will leave with practical strategies that make research-based practices part of everyday reading, writing, phonics, and content-area instruction—without overwhelming already full schedules.

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.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that tackles one of today’s most urgent literacy challenges: helping students comprehend in digital spaces. In this session, we’ll explore how to teach readers to move beyond skimming, scrolling, and surface-level takeaways so they can slow down, evaluate, and synthesize across digital texts. You’ll learn classroom-ready strategies for navigating hyperlinks, judging credibility, managing distractions, and building stamina for deep thinking online—skills that matter as much for civic engagement as they do for academic success.

Join The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a 4-hour virtual workshop that connects the best of writing workshop with the research base of the science of reading. In this session, we’ll explore how transcription skills (handwriting, spelling, and sentence construction) and composition skills (idea generation, planning, revising) develop together—and how workshop structures can seamlessly integrate phonics, word study, and knowledge building to support writing growth. Teachers will leave with practical strategies that honor student voice while ensuring all children develop the foundational skills and fluency they need to become capable, confident writers.

We warmly invite you to join Lucy Calkins, Robinson Professor of Literacy, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Founding Director of The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower for a special session designed just for parents in Hong Kong. This gathering will offer practical, encouraging ways to support your child’s growth as a reader and writer at home. Whether your child is beginning to sound out words in English or already writing stories and essays, you’ll leave with simple, joyful strategies you can use right away to nurture literacy in everyday family life.

This in-person event brings together K–5 educators from across the world for joyful, rigorous professional learning in the teaching of writing. Whether you’re a classroom teacher or a literacy leader, you’ll find yourself immersed in rich learning, practical tools, and a vibrant community of practice.

Kick off our Hong Kong Writing Institute with this special 2 hour event for school leaders.

This event begins with a shared Opening Keynote with the Writing Institute, delivered by Lucy Calkins, Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Founding Director of The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. 

Following the keynote, Lucy will lead a two-hour leadership session specifically for principals and school leaders. In this session, she will share RWP-M’s latest thinking and research on how leaders can nurture strong writing instruction across classrooms, support teachers in workshop teaching, and foster a culture where student writers thrive.

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 workshop 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 workshop, 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.