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Products by Professional Development Topic
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Keys to Beginning Reading
This practical course provides the background knowledge needed to teach all the components of beginning reading instruction. The instructional practices are designed to easily transfer to classroom lessons and can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published program. The course is organized into modules that total approximately 36 hours of training content. There are 3 options for professional development for this course: live training, asynchronous online course, or a hybrid-online facilitated course.
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Items available:
- Training Book
- Online Professional Development
The Key Comprehension Routine: Grades 4-12
This instructional routine teaches students a foundational set of comprehension strategies that support listening and reading comprehension in any subject area. During professional development, educators learn how to teach strategies using existing content reading and instructional materials. Adoption of The Key Comprehension Routine across multiple grade levels in a school or district provides students a consistent approach to comprehension instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject. Appropriate for grades 4-12 educators. There are multiple professional development options for this course: live training, asynchronous online course, facilitated course, guided book study.
Learn more about The Key Comprehension Routine.
Items available:
- Training Book
- Online Professional Development
- Online Guided Book Study
- Classroom Posters
The Key Vocabulary Routine
This instructional routine teaches students vocabulary and vocabulary learning strategies in any subject area. During professional development, educators learn how to teach vocabulary using existing content reading and instructional materials. Adoption of The Key Vocabulary Routine across multiple grade levels in a school or district provides students a consistent approach to vocabulary instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject. Appropriate for grades 3-12 educators. There are multiple options for this professional development course: live training, asynchronous online course, facilitated online course, guided book study.
Learn more about The Key Vocabulary Routine.
Items available:
- Training Book
- Online Professional Development
- Online Guided Book Study
- Classroom Posters
Keys to Content Writing
This instructional routine teaches students skills that support content writing in any subject area. During professional development, educators learn instructional practices that address state writing standards, including frequent writing in all subject areas that includes short and longer writing tasks. Adoption of Keys to Content Writing across multiple grade levels in a school or district provides students a consistent approach to writing instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject. There are several professional development options for this course: live training and (available in summer, 2022) asynchronous or facilitated online course.
Learn more about Keys to Content Writing
Items available:
- Training Book
- Online Professional Development
- Classroom Posters
Keys to Early Writing
This practical course provides the background knowledge needed to teach the components of early writing instruction. The instructional suggestions are developmentally appropriate for young children in kindergarten through grade 2, and easily transfer to classroom lessons that can be integrated with any writing curriculum or published writing program. The course is tightly aligned with state writing standards. There are several professional development options for this course: live training and (available in Fall, 2022) asynchronous or facilitated online course.
Learn more about Keys to Early Writing.
Items available:
- Training Book
- Online Professional Development
Understanding Dyslexia
This professional development course provides the background knowledge about dyslexia that educators need in order to understand why students with dyslexia have difficulty with reading, and how to support them in the classroom.
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Items available:
- Online Professional Development