Professional Development - Lifting Literacy for Academic Achievement

Audience:
K-5 Teachers
K-5 Literacy Coaches
K-5 Professional Developers
New or novice K-5 Teachers
Duration :
8 months
Units
8 Plus review, reflection, and extension
CEUs
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Phone: 1.800.531.5015

Lifting Literacy for Academic Achievement - NEW!

Empower elementary teachers and literacy coaches with the theories and strategies vital to effective and meaningful literacy instruction. Designed by leading literacy expert and veteran teacher, Linda Hoyt, Lifting Literacy for Academic Achievement, gives teachers the strategies and tools they need to make literacy thrive in vibrant, meaning-rich classroom environments.

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Units of Study
1. Research and Best Practices
2. Literacy Assessment
3. Small Group Instruction
4. Comprehension Instruction Across the Curriculum
5. Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Word Study
6. Vocabulary Instruction
7. Fluency and Oral Interpretation of Text
8. Writing Instruction Across the Curriculum

Choose from Multiple Delivery Models — Yearlong, Half-year, or Single-topic Workshops

Yearlong Delivery Model:

MONTHS 1-4

• Group Learning: Two consultant-delivered units per month

• Classroom Demonstration: Consultant demonstration of unit strategies in your district classrooms

• Interactive Online Modules: Extend and reinforce unit learning with videos and activities

• Review: District facilitator delivers unit review with Rigby Professional Development materials the week following consultant delivery

MONTHS 5-8

Reflection and Extension : Delivered by district facilitator to review each unit introduced in months 1-4

Book Groups : Augment and extend learning

As a result of this course, teachers will be able to:

Understand the varied roles of coaching and how to meet expectations for these roles
Understand brain research and the connection to coaching
Provide successful demonstration lessons and professional development meetings

Utilize coaching best practices to offer superior support to teachers
Understand and implement data-driven coaching

Lifting Literacy Resources :

Downloadable Book Group Discussion Guides

Downloadable Classroom Toolbox