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Be brought behind the scenes to understand the ways the science of reading has been integrated into the new units, learn about decoding assessments, decodable texts, and hear the relationship between the Units of Study and the Reading Rope.

We don’t want you to waste a minute before you learn how to get maximum lift from all the resources that are available for you in the brand new 3-5 Writing Units of Study. Come to this day and hear from Lucy Calkins and Katie Clements, the two people who have been most deeply involved in developing the units.

A number of schools use Fundations or UFLI Foundations, to support phonics development, and we are delighted to partner with these schools. This day will support the alignment between popular phonics programs and Units of Study.  

This day will help you make the personal essay, the genre needed for admissions essays for colleges, selective high schools, or special programs, come alive for your students. You’ll hear about how you can lean on the writing process to teach a quick mini-unit that equips your students to write personal essays on topics that matter to them. 

This conference day is designed to help you draw on reading research, on your data, AND on all that you know about teaching well so that you can teach with the confidence, clarity and decisiveness you need to move your kids forward. 

In order to support literal comprehension, monitoring for sense, summarizing, inferring, envisionment and using knowledge of story structure to grow theories about books–and to do this in ways that move kids up levels of text complexity–we’ll suggest high-leverage small groups that you can teach in a rinse-and-repeat way for kids on benchmark, as well as for those below benchmark.

This day is designed to help you draw on the K-2 Writing Units of Study in order to teach in state-of-the-art ways that nurture your students to become enthusiastic and proficient writers. 

This is a day for teachers who draw on both English and Spanish and whose students are developing literacy in both languages. We will make use of decades of work with this population and in dual language, bilingual classrooms, as well as in classrooms filled with speakers of many languages, to help you be ready to understand and respond to your kids’ needs.

In this workshop you’ll learn ways to infuse phonological awareness and phonics into your workshop and also be given suggestions for decodable texts for upper grade readers. Most kids in grades 3-8 who struggle with phonics need help reading multisyllabic words, and this requires support for morphology and vocabulary as well as phonics, so you’ll receive help in supporting these dimensions as well. 

This day will support you in integrating decodable texts into your workshop . You will study ways to assess your readers so as to match them to decodable texts and study ways to support students’ phonics and decoding and comprehension.

The science of reading has implications for 3-8 as well as for K-2, and especially for reading in the content area. This day will help you ramp up your upper elementary and middle school reading instruction, especially when it comes to nonfiction. 

In this session, we’ll help you look at student writing through a variety of lenses, to see where kids are in a progression of writing development, and to know ways to turbo charge their growth forward. 

This day will be jam packed with help supporting upper grade kids’ spelling. You’ll learn content and methods that you can bring into whole class and small group work, and you’ll also learn ways to assess your students’ spelling, to identify the handful of kids who need special help with spelling, and to provide those kids with that help. 

This day is designed to help you offer tiers of intervention to students during whole class, small group, and, when necessary, more individualized instruction. We’ll share ways you can collect student data within your reading and writing workshops and make the most of that data so you can use it to plan instruction that best meets the range of needs of your particular students.

This day will help self-contained and inclusive classroom teachers with methods, strategies and structures to support their students.

This workshop will help you learn half a dozen especially high leverage and easy-to-lead small groups that you can be ready to lead at an instant’s notice. One huge part of this work will be devoting time to creating a toolkit of resources that you can keep close at hand as you teach.

This workshop will help you work with your read-alouds, as well as a diverse set of short texts, in order to help your students dig into complex texts. You’ll help rally your students to pore over these texts in order to make meaning from them, to write about them to answer text-based questions about them. You’ll hear about syntax surgery as a way to help kids to excavate complex texts, about ways to promote rereading, about the power of debate as a tool for close reading, and about using AI to unpack complex texts. 

On this day, you’ll learn to look through a stack of your students’ writing to see patterns and next steps in their spelling. This will help you to understand what has–and hasn’t yet–stuck in their phonics development.

When students grow their vocabulary, they also grow their knowledge of the ideas that authors use– ideas like justice, evaporate, or revolve. They also grow their ability to capture their own powerful ideas in words, and share them with the world. Join us for a day that will help you feel more confident teaching vocabulary– and growing students’ worlds. 

On this day, we’ll help you feel more confident in your knowledge of the work kids need to be doing at varied levels of text complexity, while reading different genres, and at the beginning, middle and end of books, so that you have a criteria in mind with which to assess your readers’ work and clear next steps you can suggest. We’ll also help you to consider ways in which your feedback to readers can be part of a larger, more sustained plan for them, and we’ll share ways you can follow up and build upon your feedback.  

With so much emphasis placed on phonics and decoding, you may be worried that comprehension is falling by the wayside. This workshop support comprehension, oral language, and vocabulary instruction across your day, in particular through read-aloud and shared reading.

This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your reading state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Reading Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring.

This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your writing state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Writing Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring.