Content Area Literacy: Supporting Middle and Secondary Level Students with High-Quality Instruction

Literacy is the foundation of all learning.  All students must transition from learning how to read to reading for learning. This can be especially difficult for students with reading challenges. National data indicates that 69 %of eighth-grade students read below proficiency (NAEP, 2022). These students will continue to experience barriers with literacy skills associated with career and college readiness. Literacy encompasses reading, writing, and speaking, skills that are highly necessary for success. Middle- and secondary-level educators play a vital role in supporting students' literacy development, especially students with reading difficulties.  Spend a day learning about literacy in the content area classroom and learn innovative, evidence-based, high-quality instructional strategies that are game changers in the classroom.

• Discover the power of literacy in the content area classroom
• Examine Scarborough’s Reading Rope
• Learn how to support literacy development in middle and secondary-level students
• Identify evidence-based strategies that can support learning in the classroom
• Discover how explicit instruction can scaffold and support literacy for all students

Participants will have an opportunity to practice and create several artifacts that can be instantly applied in the classroom.

Presenters: Dr. Lydia Gerzel-Short

Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (0.5)

Lunch is on your own.