Events - Keys to Literacy

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Key Comprehension Routine: Grades 4-12 (Live Virtual Training)

September 30 - October 1, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: September 30-October 1. This virtual professional development presents evidence-based instructional practices for teaching comprehension strategies in any content area. Participants learn how to teach a set of strategies that students can apply to support reading comprehension. When used across multiple grade levels, students benefit from a consistent approach to comprehension instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject.

Comprehension

Key Vocabulary Routine Certified Facilitator (Live Virtual Training)

October 1 - 6, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. October 1 & 6. Learn to be a facilitator for the hybrid-online facilitated course! Is your school or district interested in using in-house staff to offer facilitated online professional development for The Key Vocabulary Routine? If the answer is yes, this Certified Facilitator model is for you!

Train-the-Facilitator, Vocabulary

Keys to Early Writing (Live Virtual Training)

October 7 - 8, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: October 7-8. This two-day virtual, live professional development focuses on writing instruction for students in grades K-2. Participants learn developmentally appropriate, evidence-based practices for teaching beginning writing skills to young students.

Writing

Keys to Adolescent Literacy (Live Virtual Training)

October 8, 2025: Virtual

This one-day workshop offers an overview of adolescent literacy for students in grades 5-12 in all subjects. It builds the background knowledge of middle and high school teachers about how students learn to read, best practices for teaching content reading and writing skills, and why some older students have difficulty.

Comprehension

Adolescent Reading Intervention (Live Virtual Training)

October 9, 2025: Virtual

This one-day seminar provides an overview of why some older students have difficulty with reading, and what intervention instruction should look like that meets the individual needs students.

Comprehension

Understanding Dyslexia (Live Virtual Training)

October 14, 2025: Virtual

Would you like to better understand dyslexia and how it affects your students’ reading ability? This one-day seminar is just what you need!

Advanced Word Study: Grade 4 and Beyond (Live Virtual Training)

October 15, 2025: Virtual

This one-day training focuses on teaching advanced word study so students can spell and read multisyllable words in any subject. Beginning in grade four, after students have developed knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and basic decoding skills in the primary grades, they need to learn how to combine those skills with knowledge of syllable patterns, syllable division principles, and morphology (roots, prefixes, suffixes) to read and spell unfamiliar multisyllable words.

Leading Research-Based Writing Instruction with The Writing Rope (Live Virtual Training)

October 16, 2025: Virtual

This one-day professional development is designed for leaders and instructional coaches leading research-based writing instruction across schools and districts.

Writing

Keys to Content Writing, Grades 3-12 (Live Virtual Training)

October 21 - 22, 2025: Virtual

Two FULL Days: October 21-22. This virtual, live professional development focuses on writing instruction across all subjects for students in grades 3-12. Participants learn best practices to address the writing requirements of state writing standards, including frequent writing in all content areas.

Writing

Key Comprehension Certified Facilitator (Live Virtual Training)

October 21 - 22, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. October 21-22. Learn to be a facilitator for The Key Comprehension Routine online course. Is your school or district interested in using in-house staff to offer facilitated online professional development for The Key Comprehension Routine? If the answer is yes, this Certified Facilitator model is for you!

Comprehension, Train-the-Facilitator

The Key Vocabulary Routine (Live Virtual Training)

October 28 - 29, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: October 28-29. This two-day professional development presents research-based instructional practices for teaching vocabulary throughout the school day. Participants learn how to teach academic vocabulary using existing content reading instructional materials. When used across multiple grade levels, students benefit from a consistent approach.

Vocabulary

Keys to Beginning Reading, Certified Facilitator (Live Virtual Training)

November 4 - 13, 2025: Virtual

Three FULL DAYS. November 4, 6 & 13. Learn to be a facilitator for the hybrid-online facilitated course! Is your school or district interested in using in-house staff to provide facilitated online professional development for Keys to Beginning Reading? If the answer is yes, this Certified Facilitator training might be right for you!

Comprehension, Phonics, Train-the-Facilitator, Vocabulary

Keys to Early Writing Certified Facilitator (Live Virtual Training)

November 11 - 12, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. November 11-12. Learn to be a facilitator for The Keys to Early Writing online course. If your school or district is interested in using in-house facilitators to offer a facilitated-online professional development course for writing strategy instruction, this Certified Facilitator training is for you!

Train-the-Facilitator, Writing

Keys to Content Writing Certified Facilitator Training (Live Virtual Training)

November 18 - 19, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. November 18-19. Learn to be a facilitator for The Keys to Content Writing online course. If your school or district is interested in using in-house facilitators to offer a facilitated-online professional development course for comprehension strategy instruction, this Train-the-Facilitator is for you!

Train-the-Facilitator, Writing

Keys to Beginning Reading Higher Education Certified Faculty Training (Live Virtual Training)

January 30 - March 27, 2026: Virtual

FIVE HALF DAYS. January 30, February 13 & 27, March 13 & 27, 2026. Become a Certified Faculty of the Keys to Beginning Reading online course! Is your college or university faculty interested in embedding the IDA Accredited Keys to Beginning Reading course within their foundational literacy courses or supporting other faculty in enhancing their background knowledge of evidence-based instructional practices aligned with the Science of Reading? If the answer is yes, this Certified Faculty Training is for you!

Comprehension, Higher Education, Phonics, Vocabulary

Events Sponsored by Other Organizations

Keys to Literacy staff members will present at the following events:

2025 GACIS Fall Conference

September 25 - 26, 2025: Athens, GA

2025 Turning the Tide in Reading Instruction

October 3, 2025: Brookfield, WI

The 9th Annual Conference of The Reading League

October 8 - 10, 2025: Chicago, IL

California Reading Association

October 10 - 11, 2025: Virtual

The Reading League Maine

November 12, 2025: Waterville, ME

Write Now 2025

November 14, 2025: Virtual

ExcelinEd, National Summit on Education

November 17 - 19, 2025: New Orleans, LA

The Summit on PLC at Work

February 24 - 26, 2026: Phoenix, AZ