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Grades 3-8
Fireside Chat: The Essential Role of Literacy Coaches and Teacher Leaders
Attend to learn how to invest your financial resources in building the professional capacity of your staff and achieve equitable outcomes for all your students.
Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades 3-12
In this 6-day training, learn how to teach small-group, supplementary literacy intervention to boost literacy for students in grades 3-12.
Using the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum for Responsive Teaching
In this 2-day institute, learn how to use the Literacy Continuum as a resource when teaching reading and writing in grades K-6.
Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades 3-12
In this 6-day training, learn how to teach small-group, supplementary literacy intervention to boost literacy for students in grades 3-12.
Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 1 & 2 Seminar
In this 2-day training, learn how to administer, score, and analyze student reading behaviors utilizing the Benchmark Assessment System.
Leadership in Literacy: School Leaders K-6
In this 4-day training, learn what every school leader needs to know about effective literacy teaching, coaching, and teacher leadership in grades K-6.
Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching in Grades 3-8
Learn how to plan and teach effective Guided Reading lessons in intermediate and middle school classrooms.
Introduction to Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™
Create authentic experiences for reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting in all classroom settings.
Fireside Chat: Building a Coherent Approach to Literacy in Your School or District
Attend to learn how to incorporate a comprehensive literacy approach in your school or district.
Upcoming Professional Development
Effective Reading Instruction: Community & Practice, K-8
This 8-week, online course will teach the rationales and organizational components of classroom reading instruction. You will examine effective instructional practices and strategies to strengthen reading development for a wide range of readers, including multilingual learners.
Building Deep Thinkers Through Reading: Engaging Students in Robust Comprehension
Let’s teach readers to think deeply. Join us to explore robust comprehension as an active, layered, and dynamic process to synthesize ideas, make inferences, and critique texts – not just recall facts.
Wondrous Words: Igniting Children’s Passion, Purpose, and Skills for Writing
Join us for this two-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll strengthen your ability to read like a writer and learn how to use mentor texts to help students expand their repertoire of craft moves, grow their identities as writers, and deepen their understanding of writing as a meaningful act.