Events - Keys to Literacy

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

May 2 - 16, 2025: Virtual

REGISTRATION CLOSED. THREE FULL DAYS. May 2, 9 & 16. 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

Keys to Early Writing (Live Virtual Training)

May 6 - 7, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: May 6-7. 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 Content Writing, Grades 3-12 (Live Virtual Training)

May 13 - 14, 2025: Virtual

Two FULL Days: May 13-14. 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

Keys to Emergent Literacy – PreK (Live, Virtual)

May 20 - 21, 2025: Virtual

Two FULL Days: May 20-21. Are you looking for professional learning for using evidence-based language and literacy instructional practices for pre-school children? If the answer is yes, then this professional development offering may be the answer!

Keys to Adolescent Literacy (Live Virtual Training)

May 20, 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

Keys to Early Writing Certified Facilitator (Live Virtual Training)

May 21 - 22, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. May 21-22. 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

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

May 28 - 29, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: May 28-29. 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

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

June 3 - 10, 2025: Virtual

Three FULL DAYS. June 3, 5 & 10. 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

Adolescent Reading Intervention (Live Virtual Training)

June 4, 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

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

June 11 - 12, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS. June 11-12. 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

The Key Vocabulary Routine (Live Virtual Training)

June 11 - 12, 2025: Virtual

2 FULL DAYS: June 11-12. 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

Understanding Dyslexia (Live Virtual Training)

June 17, 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!

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

June 18, 2025: Virtual

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

Writing

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

June 18, 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.

Events Sponsored by Other Organizations

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

Show-Me Science of Reading Conference

May 5 - 6, 2025: Columbia, MO

The Teaching Professor Conference

June 6 - 8, 2025: Washington, D.C.

LA DOE, Teacher Leader Summit

June 10 - 12, 2025: New Orleans, LA

ODEW, Secondary Writing State Conference

June 12, 2025: Columbus, OH

California Literacy Conference

June 17, 2025: Virtual

MSJ, Reading Science Summit

June 25, 2025: Cincinnati, OH

Texas ESC 16, Curriculum Connect Conference

July 15 - 16, 2025: Canyon, TX

The 9th Annual Conference of The Reading League

October 8 - 10, 2025: Chicago, IL