"This domain is designed so that students will continuously cultivate key practices that will sustain their literacy endeavors throughout their K-12 education experiences and beyond. The standards and expectations for Practices are exactly that—practices for students to develop throughout the years. When students are in earlier grades, they will engage in these practices with simpler and shorter texts and will benefit from more guidance and support than they will in later grades. When instruction is designed with these practices in mind, teachers will often engage in these practices with their students as active consumers and producers of texts themselves. Sometimes, students will cultivate these practices one at a time; often, they will incorporate more than one practice as they interpret and construct a range of texts for a variety of purposes. The Practices domain is focused primarily on the relationship between reading and writing print and digital texts; however, listening, viewing, speaking, and creating multimodal texts are integral to the development of each practice" (Georgia Department of Education).

Participants are asked to bring nonfiction and fiction literary samples to the session to complete the activities during the workshop. Participants will focus on mentor sentences from the texts to apply standards as well as the expectations found within the standards.