Reading:

• Florida Center for Reading Research: The FCRR website includes an extensive set of free resources to be used with all grade levels. The used can search for a multitude of literacy subjects and find strategies and activities to teach.

• Close Reading (Model Lesson) This model lesson includes the materials and lesson plan for using The Book With No Pictures.

• Close Reading Workshop This is a detailed Mini-PD session focusing on some of the details in a close reading lesson. There are a variety of close reading materials in addition to a mini-DBI (document based inquiry) session.

• Comprehension Mini-PD This is a detailed Mini-PD session focusing on comprehension. The essential question is: "How do your beliefs about comprehension inform your practices?" There are many supporting resources included in the links.

• Text Complexity Toe Dip: This resource explores the idea of text complexity. Is the text you want to share with your students accessible or appropriate? This PD style resource is built as a mini-workshop with a task to think over, and then a template to be used with your own text.

• Vocabulary CODE Strategies K-8 - Amanda Stratton: This detailed workshop has a PD planning page that will be useful for implementation. The essential questions are: In what ways does possessing a robust vocabulary impact students’ personal, academic, and future lives? How can we provide robust vocabulary instruction for our students while dealing with everyday time constraints? The workshop will dive into the CODE Strategy.

• Fluency Mini-PD This is a detailed Mini-PD session focusing on fluency. The essential question is: "How do we develop readers and writers?" There are many supporting resources included in the links.

• Phonics Mini-PD This is a detailed Mini-PD session focusing on phonics in reading development. The essential question is: "How do my beliefs about phonics inform my practice?" There are many supporting resources included in the links.

Writing:

• Writing Mini-PD: This short writing workshop focuses on this essential question: How do my beliefs about writing inform my practice? The workshop explores mentor texts and author's experts moves or intentions of their writing.

• Writing Workshop Nuts and Bolts - This resource outlines possible tips and routines for a writing workshop within the classroom.

Pedagogy:

• Sequencing and Scaffolding Workshop: The Learning Goal for this workshop is: Teachers will understand the principles of sequencing and scaffolding and consider how to apply these in intentional unit design. Sequencing and Scaffolding is discussed and modeled using a second grade lesson (be sure to read the Speaker Notes in the presentation) and also focused on Gradual Release of Responsibility.

• Building A Dialogic Primary Classroom Workshop- This workshop contains a detailed agenda and working components needed to facilitate a workshop around this essential question: How does student dialogue impact critical thinking? There are many resources available in the folder.

• Beyond Austin's Butterfly: Descriptive Feedback - This set of slides created by Jayna Eichelberger gives clues on how to give and receive feedback.

• DOK: Analyzing a Standard: This workshop contains a plethora of resources designed to help teachers as they analyze standards to determine the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) level and how they might be able to teach to higher levels through their analyzation of standards and assessments.

• Socratic Seminar on Balanced Literacy Have you ever wondered what "balanced literacy: really is? If so, this workshop contains a variety of resources designed to share definitions and descriptions of the process. There are a variety of materials shared and then the format to share with others is in using the Socratic Seminar strategy.

• DBI on Balanced Literacy An additional method of exploring Balanced Literacy is through the use of a Document Based Inquiry (DBI) strategy. This strategy uses a layered approach to increasingly more complex texts chosen to build the knowledge base on the subject.

• DBI Creation Resources Using a DBI (Document Based Inquiry) model encourages student engagement, student inquiry, and subject area interest. This strategy can be used at all grade levels and offers a variety of text types to pique interest. This list of resources shares many common templates that are easy to use.

K-3 Foundational Literacy Workshops

Virtual workshops hosted by the Idaho Coaching Network's K-3 Coaches

• K-3 Foundational Literacy Skills Workshop

  • This is a link to an all-day workshop focusing on the foundational skills necessary in creating literate students.

• K-3 Foundational Skill Oral Language Virtual Workshop

  • This link shares the skills/strategies/activities needed to develop oral language skills in K-3 students.

• K-3 Foundational Skill Phonemic Awareness Virtual Workshop

  • This link shares the skills/strategies/activities needed to develop phonemic awareness skills in K-3 students.

• K-3 Foundational Skill Phonics Virtual Workshop

  • This link shares the skills/strategies/activities needed to develop phonics skills in K-3 students.