Learn various strategies for increasing reading and writing fluency with an emphasis on implementing varied activities tailored to specific student levels including grouping, and station activities.

In this course you will learn how to utilize the explicit instruction model to select the correct reading behavior or skill for your student or groups, to build a plan aligned to student goals, and to implement the lesson into your classroom.

Learn about foundational reading skills and how they build upon one another, their relationship to a student’s reading level, the main components of guided reading, and how to plan/group.

Learn what typical writing looks like for kindergarten through third-grade students, as well as some common writing tasks they can be expected to accomplish and learn the purpose of both holistic and analytic rubrics for writing assessment.

Participants in this course will be exposed to a variety of methods to determine a student’s reading level, with the focus on Fountas and Pinnell’s Benchmark Assessment System, and their accompanying guide to reading behaviors.

Learn a variety of methods to determine middle school-level student reading level, with the focus on Fountas and Pinnell’s Benchmark Assessment System, and an accompanying guide to reading behaviors.