Conferences

As teachers, the most critical academic skill we can help students develop is their proficiency as readers. This is true in ELA and every classroom, regardless of grade level or content area. If we want students to engage deeply with texts, collect and evaluate textual evidence, attend to important text features, and make meaningful notes, then we need to build their skills and confidence as proficient readers who regularly process texts in these ways. In this session, participants will explore two reading tools designed to engage students and empower them to address even the most rigorous literary and informative texts.

For decades, stakeholders have created, tweaked, and recast ways of designing and delivering instruction. But in many classrooms, content-coverage pressures can promote a “preach, test, hope for the best” approach. Every teacher can be better—they can be strategic teachers with repertoires of reliable strategies to reach every learner.