Elementary Literacy
What Is It?
Effective reading instruction requires more from teachers than helping students master phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers also need to develop the art, and language, of teaching reading explicitly.
SEDL has created a professional development model that provides two vehicles for supporting elementary literacy. First, our literacy specialists show teachers how to use research and strategies that emphasize student success in reading and writing in all content areas for students in grades K–3. Second, we help participants facilitate ongoing professional development activities at their schools or district so that all teachers can apply what they learn in the classroom, collaborate with other teachers, and refine how they teach.
How SEDL Can Help
Just for You
SEDL’s team of literacy specialists can create a customized 2-year technical assistance plan just for your district or school. Through hands-on interactive sessions, participants will be coached and facilitated through the learning process. They will:
- learn the differences between explicit and implicit instruction;
- learn what explicit instruction looks like and why it is important to teach explicitly;
- learn how to discuss their instruction explicitly (e.g., the what, the why, the when, and the how); and
- create an action plan to apply key learnings from this session to classroom practice.
Stimulus Funds to Use
Title I, Part A Recovery Funds and Title I, School Improvement Grants (103G Funds)
Contact Us
Please contact the SEDL Center for Professional Learning at 800-476-6861, ext. 6556, or e-mail services@sedl.org to learn more.
