Literacy Webinars

On-Demand

In this webinar, we address how to organize, plan, and provide “deep” vocabulary and spelling explorations that directly support your students’ reading and writing. These individual and collaborative explorations may take place in your school’s online learning environments with which students are already familiar. Excellent print and online resources are provided for exploring and learning about words and how they work.

Keeping Your Upper-Elementary and Middle School Students Hooked on Words While at Home

On-Demand

How do we navigate the transition to distance learning as we seek to serve our students? How do we implement elearning effectively? Dr. Serafini has been conducting research on visual and multimodal literacy working with contemporary picturebooks to support young readers’ comprehension.

This is Not What I Learned in School: Tips for Teaching in Times of Transition

On-Demand

How do we help our students to become more critical consumers and producers of digital media? How do we help them to develop essential 21st-century literacies without sacrificing our commitments to teaching literature and writing? This webinar will frame media literacy education in the context of student engagement, academic development, and student voice. We will discuss how teachers can help students to ask hard questions of the media they consume and how students can experience greater joy and connection to their everyday literacies. We will conclude by exploring exciting ways that teachers can integrate digital media into their traditional literature-based units.

Digital Media Literacies in the ELA Classroom: Empowering Student Voices through Production and Critique

On-Demand

Teaching comprehension is challenging! It becomes even more so if we are supporting students in remote settings. Modeling and scaffolding are still key. Join Dr. Judy Wallis as she shares strategies for teaching comprehension remotely.

Teaching Comprehension…Long Distance

On-Demand

Join Freddy as she describes the ways in which caregivers and teachers can support students in keeping track of what they are learning. As importantly, ways in which students can be guided in celebrating and sharing their learning will also be highlighted. Regardless of the form of a learning environment, recognizing, celebrating, and sharing knowledge are at the heart of successful educational experiences.

Ways to Recognize, Celebrate, & Share Learning--Wherever Students Are

On-Demand

Middle School, High School

Cultural Relevance and Engagement in Secondary English Classrooms with Ernest Morrell, Ph.D.

Join author and professor Ernest Morrell as he shares best and research-based practices in creating cultural relevance and engagement in secondary English classrooms. Ernest has an extensive resume of experience on the topic and will share not only his knowledge, but his passion for the subject. Come learn, explore new ideas, and share your own classroom experiences with Ernest as he discusses how to make your classroom inclusive for all.

On-Demand

Literacy, Intervention

The session will answer this question for you: Am I culturally and linguistically responsive? The phrase

Six Ways To Know If You Are Culturally and Linguistically Responsive

On-Demand

What are the ingredients of effective word study instruction? In this session, Dr. Donald Bear will present 10 essential elements of teaching phonics, vocabulary, and spelling, including ways to organize learning and encourage student interaction and self-reflection. Dr. Bear will also share routines, and activities for implementing word study in the classroom at each developmental spelling stage.

Elementary

The How of Word Study: 10 Essential Elements of Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling