PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Best Practices in Literacy Seminars and Workshops


All sessions are custom-designed to meet your needs and timeframe and are intended to deepen educators’ understanding of various PreK–8 literacy topics. Sessions may include specific connections to a Zaner-Bloser program and/or specific state standards, as desired.


THE NEW STANDARDS Text-Dependent Questions: Digging Into the Text


This session focuses on the development of text-dependent questions to facilitate exposure to a deeper reading and understanding of text by keeping the students in the text. Session Number PD27


Text Evidence: Reading Like a Detective


This session will cover instruction and strategies for finding text evidence, analyzing that evidence, and forming conclusions. Session Number PD26


EARLY LITERACY


The Building Blocks of Literacy: Developing Literacy Interests and Abilities During the Preschool Years


Session participants will learn strategies for developing children’s phonological and phonemic awareness abilities, alphabet knowledge, and print knowledge, and will gain ideas for creating an environment that promotes motivation for learning to read and write. Session Number PD30


PreK and the BIG FIVE: Building a Firm Foundation for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, & Comprehension


The emphasis of this session will be on the design of developmentally appropriate and meaningful instructional experiences to facilitate the acquisition of pre-reading and future literacy skills and abilities. Session Number PD31


Reading to Learn WHILE Learning to Read: Meeting the Standards for Nonfiction, K–2


In this hands-on workshop, teachers will learn how to evaluate the quality of nonfiction texts and then how to use those texts to support students’ decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension skills and strategies. Session Number PD33


Implementing Brain-Based Foundations of Early Literacy: A Multimodal, Integrated Approach


Participants leave this session understanding how the neural pathways for reading are formed, what “systematic, explicit instruction” really means, and how to implement practical strategies for the research-based principles of reading instruction. Session Number PD34


Thinking & Teaching Diagnostically: Differentiating Instruction for Success with All Beginning Readers


This session will address how to differentiate instruction, providing a template for understanding the reading process, forming skills-based groups, and delivering effective instruction. Session Number PD35


READING


High Impact Comprehension Strategies: Scaffolding Primary Readers to Complex Text


This interactive workshop will focus on research-based instructional strategies that allow us to teach our youngest readers to read words and make meaning simultaneously. Session Number PD32


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