Workshop: Teaching All Students to Read

Objectives: To become familiar with the components of language and understand their importance. Identify the fundamental characteristics of structured literacy and the steps to follow in its implementation.
Suggested Audience: PPK- 2nd grade teachers

Workshop: Phonological Awareness

Objectives: To discover what phonological awareness is and its direct relationship with reading through the application of activities and strategies leading to its development according to the level of each student.

Suggested Audience: PPK- 2nd grade teachers

Workshop: Vocabulary

Objectives: Analyze the components of effective vocabulary instruction. Understand direct instruction vocabulary. Become familiar with an instructional routine for teaching vocabulary that maximizes vocabulary learning.

Suggested Audience: PPK- 2nd grade teachers

Workshop: Writing

Objectives: Understand the necessary language skills to achieve the formulation of complete ideas that in turn become sentences. Become familiar with strategies to support students in making sentences.

Suggested Audience: PPK- 2nd grade teachers

Workshop: Reading Comprehension

Objectives: To understand the strategies that achieve comprehensive reading and that are used by proficient readers. Become familiar with the strategies of thinking aloud and how it should be used to model the reading comprehension process.

Suggested Audience: PPK- 2nd grade teachers

Workshop: Read Alouds

Objectives: To understand the strategies that achieve an auditory reading comprehension and that are used by proficient readers. Become familiar with the strategy of thinking aloud and how it should be used to model the reading comprehension process.

Suggested Audience: PPK- K teachers

Workshop: Dyslexia

Objectives: To discover what dyslexia is. Define, clarify myths and realities about this specific language-based learning problem that affects between 10 to 20% of the student population.

Suggested Audience: PPK- High school teachers