Events

Upcoming Keys to Literacy workshops and presentations.
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School & District Literacy Planning

$175
December 13, 2019: Rowley, MA
Does your school or district need a literacy improvement plan? This one-day workshop introduces the Keys to Literacy Planning Model. Participants will learn how to generate a long-term literacy plan that provides a road map for improving student reading, writing and other literacy skills.
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The Key Comprehension Routine Coach Training

$450
December 16 - 17, 2019: Rowley, MA
Advanced training for building or district level individuals to become a coach facilitator for Keys routines. The training includes a day of deep review of the routine and coaching skills.
Comprehension
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Keys to Writing Coach Training

$450
December 18 - 19, 2019: Rowley, MA
Advanced training for building or district level individuals to become a coach facilitator for Keys professional development. The training includes a deep review of Writing instructional practices and coaching skills.
Writing
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ANSWER Key for State Assessment Writing

$175
January 15, 2020: Rowley, MA
This one-day workshop addresses written responses to question prompts based on text and non-text sources. This kind of combined comprehension-writing task is often found on writing assessments such as standardized state tests, high-school SAT’s, and benchmark on-demand classroom writing.
Writing
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Keys to Beginning Reading: Session 1 – Reading Basics, Phonological Awareness, Phonics

$350
March 5 - 6, 2020: Rowley, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills to kindergarten to grade 3 students? This course is just what you need! This practical course, organized into nine modules, 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 that can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. Session 1 covers these module topics: Reading Basics, Phonological Awareness, Phonics. Attend just this session, or take the full course!
Phonics
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Keys to Beginning Reading: a reading survey course for K-3 educators (Full Course)

$800
March 5 - May 8, 2020: Rowley, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills to kindergarten to grade 3 students? This course is just what you need! This practical course, organized into nine modules, 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 that can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. Attend all five days to complete the full course, or attend any of the individual sessions.
Comprehension, Phonics, Vocabulary
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Keys to Beginning Reading, Modules 1, 3, 4

$350
March 10 - 11, 2020: East Longmeadow, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills? This course is just what you need! The Reading Institute is sponsoring Modules 1, 3 and 4 of the course (Reading Basics, Phonological Awareness, Phonics) in the western part of Massachusetts. Snow date March 12.
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Keys to Comprehension for SEI and English as a Second Language

$350
March 11 - 12, 2020: Rowley, MA
This professional development uses the content from The Key Comprehension Routine training. Educators learn how to teach strategies in an SEI (Sheltered English Immersion) classroom using existing content reading and instructional materials. They also learn how to use Key Comprehension strategies to consolidate content to make it more accessible to ELLs, and to create opportunities for elaborated talk about content between ELLs and fluent English peers.
Comprehension
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Keys to Beginning Reading: Session 2 – Fluency, Oral Language, Sentence Structure

$175
March 20, 2020: Rowley, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills to kindergarten to grade 3 students? This course is just what you need! This practical course, organized into nine modules, 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 that can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. Session 2 covers these module topics: Fluency, Oral Language, Sentence Structure. Attend just this session, or take the full course!
Comprehension, Phonics
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Keys to Beginning Reading: Session 3 – Vocabulary

$175
May 7, 2020: Rowley, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills to kindergarten to grade 3 students? This course is just what you need! This practical course, organized into nine modules, 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 that can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. Session 3 covers this module topic: Vocabulary. Attend just this session, or take the full course!
Vocabulary
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Keys to Beginning Reading: Session 4 – Text Structure, Comprehension

$175
May 8, 2020: Rowley, MA
Would you like to learn science-based instructional suggestions for teaching beginning reading skills to kindergarten to grade 3 students? This course is just what you need! This practical course, organized into nine modules, 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 that can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. Session 4 covers these module topics: Text Structure, Comprehension. Attend just this session, or take the full course!
Comprehension
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Keys to Early Writing

$350
May 14 - 15, 2020: Rowley, MA
Two-day routine trains teachers to introduce basic oral and written expression skills to students in grades K-3.
Writing
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Letterland Phonics Program Training: Kindergarten

$175.00
May 18, 2020: Rowley, MA
Information and training for using the Letterland program in Kindergarten.
Phonics
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Letterland Phonics Program Training: Grade 1

$175
May 19, 2020: Rowley, MA
Information and training for using the Letterland program in Grade 1.
Phonics
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Letterland Phonics Program Training: Grade 2

$175
May 21, 2020: Rowley, MA
Information and training for using the Letterland program in Grade 2.
Phonics
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The Key Vocabulary Routine for Students with Learning Disabilities

$350
May 28 - 29, 2020: Rowley, MA
This professional development uses the content from The Key Vocabulary Routine training and incorporates information about the learning needs that students with learning disabilities have related to learning vocabulary.
Vocabulary
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Keys to Content Writing Instruction for Grades 3-6

$350
June 1 - 2, 2020: Rowley, MA
This is a two-day revised version developed specifically for this grade range. It includes instructional practices for teaching students how to write in all subject areas using strategies that are aligned with state literacy standards. This training focuses on how to teach specific writing skills such as sentence and paragraph writing, patterns of organization, writing introductions and conclusions, writing from sources, quick writes, and how to use writing to learn content.
Writing
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Keys to Content Writing Instruction for Grades 6-12

$175
June 4, 2020: Rowley, MA
This is a one-day revised version developed specifically for this grade range. It includes instructional practices for teaching students how to write in all subject areas using strategies that are aligned with state literacy standards. The training covers topics such as quick writes, content learning tasks, formal writing tasks, the writing process, writing from sources, and using a writing assignment guide.
Writing
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The Key Comprehension Routine: Primary Grades (for students with learning disabilities)

$350
June 9 - 10, 2020: Rowley, MA
This instructional routine teaches students a foundational set of comprehension strategies that are used consistently across multiple grade levels and embedded in all subjects. The strategies are taught using existing content reading and instructional materials. The routine includes: main idea skills, text structure, top-down topic webs, two-column notes, summary, and question generation.
Comprehension
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Events Sponsored by Other Organizations

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

Plain Talk About Literacy & Learning Annual Conference

January 29 - 30, 2020: New Orleans, LA
Sponsored by The Center for Development and Learning Joan Sedita will present workshop about writing and comprehension.

Ohio Dept. of Education 2020 Literacy Academy

February 19, 2020: Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education Joan Sedita will present a session on literacy planning for schools/districts.

Long Island Branch IDA

March 27, 2020: Long Island, NY
Long Island, NY Joan Sedita will present a day-long seminar on vocabulary instruction.

MA Reading Association Annual Conference

April 3, 2020: Quincy, MA
Quincy, MA Lisa Klein will present a workshop about dyslexia.