About the Pathway
Educators everywhere face the challenge of teaching reading, writing, and comprehension skills to students with varying proficiency levels, all with limited time and resources. The ELA pathway gives educators essential literacy skills to help students access and engage with complex, grade-level texts. Standards Institute participants learn the high-leverage literacy skills every teacher needs to unpack the standards, texts, and skills they teach and reach every single student in their classroom. They also reflect on the mindsets necessary to ensure every student receives GLEAM® instruction.
Give all students the key to unlock complex, grade-level texts.
What to Expect
By the end of four days, participants will:
- Apply the science of reading to adolescent literacy instruction.
- Unpack ELA standards to understand grade-level rigor.
- Practice scaffolding lessons to make grade-level texts and tasks accessible to all students.
- Learn instructional strategies that enhance student engagement, amplify language, affirm students, and promote civic engagement.
- Adapt individual lesson plans to promote student-centered learning experiences.
Who is the ELA pathway for?
6-12 ELA and humanities teachers and their coaches, leaders, and support staff
What Participants Learn
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Day 1
- Analyze ELA shifts and standards to identify grade-level expectations.
- Align lessons with standards to meet grade-level demands.
- Discover how social language can boost academic English.
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Day 2
- Tailor reading support to meet students’ specific needs.
- Understand the science of reading and its impact on their role and student success.
- Use text complexity analyses to ensure grade-level, engaging instruction.
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Day 3
- Understand the difference between scaffolds and modifications.
- Learn how knowledge building, funds of knowledge, and text sets enhance student comprehension.
- Create mentor sentences to support sentence-level analysis and language standards.
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Day 4
- Analyze lessons to identify components of GLEAM instruction.
- Adapt lessons for engaging, grade-level instruction.
- Practice strategies that affirm student knowledge and make learning meaningful.
The facilitators were-well prepared and pushed us as a group to dig deeper with our responses and questions. I felt comfortable taking risks with my responses because of the safe space.
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