LITERACY SERVICES

1-DAY COMMITMENT

To help you determine which services may be right for you, each of our professional learning engagements is designed to fit your goals, budget, and time commitment.

YOUR PRIMARY GOAL DEEPENING Your Skills SUSTAINING Your Skills BUILDING

Your Skills

One day with an expert in your school or district. Your team will gain understanding, inspiration, and strategies to start a professional learning program.

Keynote

The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing

The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading

Implementing Authentic Literacy Practices in Secondary ELA Classrooms

More intensive 2- to 4-day sessions with an expert to guide your entire staff or a smaller team to deepen understanding and further progress.

Literacy Strategies to Master the Standards

2–4-DAY COMMITMENT

Building Vocabulary and Academic Language

Teaching with Complex Texts

Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies

Close Reading Skills

Integrating Makerspace Ideas into Elementary Literacy Education

Vocabulary in a SNAP

Building Relationships and Community in the Authentic Literacy Classroom

Work with one or several experts across multiple days to embed key processes, practices, and procedures designed to significantly improve staff performance and student achievement.

MULTI-DAY

Literacy Instructional Strategies and Assessments

Customized Services

Embedded Coaching

All training is delivered by a Solution Tree author or certified associate.

Building Your Skills Keynote

An expert author or certified associate will help engage your team to advance your literacy practices. Our keynoters have direct experience with the foundational aspects of literacy development as well as continued support for developing readers at all levels.

The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing

Support students in reaching desired learning outcomes in areas of literacy, particularly writing.

• Learn research-based instructional strategies and assessments best suited to teaching writing as well as some reading skills.

The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading

Increase the effectiveness of reading instruction by understanding how literacy develops. Educators can help every student become a proficient reader with this comprehensive model for reading development.

Recommended Resource

• Discover a content-specific model of reading aligned to the general framework of The New Art and Science of Teaching

• Explore reading-focused instructional strategies related to feedback, content, and context.

• Understand how to differentiate literacy activities to meet the unique needs of every student.

Recommended Resource

• Examine samples of writing rubrics, proficiency scales, and checklists, and learn effective teaching methods to use them as assessment and instructional tools.

• Utilize general strategies for teaching, alongside specific strategies, in order to enrich teaching, improve the learning environment of the classroom, and obtain desired student outcomes for writing.

• Measure and enhance your ability to develop writing skills in students.

• Guide students at all stages of literacy development, from learning the basic concepts of print to demonstrating advanced reading comprehension.

Implementing Authentic Literacy Practices in Secondary ELA Classrooms

Reinvigorate literacy teaching and learning in secondary ELA classrooms by implementing authentic reading and writing practices. Empower teachers, students, and administrators to use these ideas, strategies, and tools to leverage the interest and motivation of individual students, transforming literacy learning experiences while moving beyond traditional ELA practices.

• Understand what authentic literacy is and why it is important.

• Analyze current literacy research and implications.

Recommended Resource

• Examine and project an action plan for building teacher expertise around authentic literacy.