Content-Focused
Professional Learning:
Literacy Suite
Develop the content area knowledge and pedagogical practices needed to master the fundamentals of literacy instruction.
Develop the content area knowledge and pedagogical practices needed to master the fundamentals of literacy instruction.
Content-Focused Professional Learning from NWEA is designed to enhance educators’ content knowledge and strengthen their pedagogical practice across literacy.
Content-Focused Professional Learning from NWEA is designed to enhance educators’ content knowledge and strengthen their pedagogical practice across literacy.
Sustained, content-driven learning to evolve your professional practice
Content-Focused Professional Learning workshops
Content-Focused Professional Learning workshops
The literacy suite provide teachers with a deep understanding of content- and research-based instructional practices, along with ways to apply that understanding to their unique grade-level instructional needs and content standards.
Literacy Practices suite
Literacy Practices suite
Deepen pedagogical content knowledge for early literacy instruction grounded in the converging evidence from science of reading research. This 6-hour offering helps K–2 educators implement effective literacy instruction through accessible, classroom- and evidence-based practices for a sounds-first approach.
Fluency is a bridge between students’ decoding of connected text and determining meaning. Designed for K–5 teachers, reading specialists, instructional coaches, and principals, this offering provides time to learn classroom strategies aligned to reading science and examine the variables affecting reading fluency. Participants will learn activities to increase fluency for every phase of reading, from beginning readers who need to build automaticity with letter sounds, to accurate word readers building text reading fluency, to highly skilled readers’ who are improving their fluency in reading comprehension. These practices, aligned with research in reading and cognitive science, can help educators increase students’ word recognition and comprehension fluency across the grade bands.
Fluency plays an integral role in bridging students’ decoding to automatic reading of connected text to determine meaning. In this offering, participants will discover strategies to help students increase fluency, advance their pedagogical content knowledge by analyzing reading fluency components, and examine the variables impacting reading fluency.
Beginning with a solid understanding of what is at the heart of today’s college- and career-ready standards will provide educators with essential knowledge for instructional practice. In these foundational sessions, participants will gain a deep understanding of the key shifts in literacy, how they progress, and the development of a classroom culture that supports discourse and builds a culturally responsive environment. This provides both teachers and administrators with a foundation for the upcoming content within the workshop series if a school or district deems it appropriate.
Our brains are wired to learn spoken language, but learning to read does not happen the same way! By teaching reading in ways that align with how the brain acquires, processes, and retains letters, sounds, and language, we support all students’ reading success. In this offering, participants will learn how students learn to read, the multiple components that make up reading, and how to structure their reading instruction to align to the science of reading research.
Educators will explore literacy assessments, learning difficulties, and evidence-aligned methods for supporting academically, culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Learn best practices for teaching rich vocabulary, both implicitly and explicitly throughout the day, to improve students’ overall language and reading comprehension.
Deepen the important knowledge gained from the Early Word Recognition workshop to learn about multisyllabic word decoding, morphology, and graphosyllabic anaylsis.
Get a better understanding of how to help students develop a coherent schema around a text topic by exploring the levels of cognitive representations that are constructed during comprehension, including the surface code, textbase, and the situation model.
Meet the needs of your team with on-site or virtual delivery options.
On-site learning
Face-to-face session with a consultant
Virtual learning
Live instruction through our online portal