This course teaches you five main types of writing prompts: narrative, creative, expository, persuasive, and reading response as well as a simple structure to follow when designing each type of writing prompt.

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 methods for teaching writing skills for expository essays in the 4th – 8th-grade classroom. With a well-planned and structured lesson design, you can support your students in improving their essay writing.

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.

In this course, you will learn how to implement literacy stations in your classroom as well as learn actionable steps for how to assess, group, and set up engaging literacy activities that will address the needs of all students, despite their individual reading levels.