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. 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
In the ELA K-5 Standards Institute pathway, participants:
- Apply the science of reading to literacy instruction.
- Unpack foundational skills and ELA standards to understand grade-level rigor.
- Practice scaffolding lessons to make grade-level texts and tasks accessible to all students.
- Acquire teaching strategies that enhance student engagement and affirm student identities.
- Adapt literacy lesson plans to promote student-centered learning experiences.
Who is the ELA K-5 pathway for?
K-5 teachers and their coaches, leaders, and support staff
What Participants Learn
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Day 1
- Explore data on the predictability of student outcomes.
- Learn to use GLEAM™ ELA instruction to influence student outcomes.
- Explain why social language is essential for developing academic English.
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Day 2
- Explore how the science of reading, ELA standards, and equitable teaching practices are connected.
- Use the science of reading and foundational skills to enhance GLEAM instruction.
- Provide guidance, tools, and techniques to help students with decoding.
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Day 3
- Analyze text complexity to aid instructional planning.
- Create scaffolds to address text and task complexity.
- Practice using scaffolds that align with text-complexity components.
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Day 4
- Analyze lessons to identify elements of GLEAM instruction.
- Adapt lessons to ensure they are engaging, affirm students’ knowledge, and activate their civic engagement.
- Develop text-dependent questions 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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