Empower Your Educators
Discover how Learning Ally’s Structured Literacy in Action Course can build internal capacity to support student success.
Structured Literacy in Action Professional Learning
Enable your educators with evidence-based literacy instruction practices.
Benefits
Learn practical strategies
Discover how to leverage your district curriculum to make an immediate impact in your classrooms.
Build district capacity
Support effective and lasting implementation with our 3-step PL model (workshop, call to action, communities of practice).
Comply with training requirements
Meet state mandates for evidence-based reading instruction with our award-winning, affordable, and flexible course.
Topics Covered
Learning Ally’s Structured Literacy in Action is a comprehensive program built on science-based reading practices. Participants will master the fundamentals of effective literacy instruction and acquire practical strategies they can immediately apply through workshops, action plans, and communities of practice sessions covering these topics:
Foundations of Structured Literacy
- Explore various reading processing models to understand how students decode and comprehend text.
- Identify and apply systematic and explicit instructional practices that effectively support student literacy development.
- Distinguish between phonological and phonemic awareness and assess these skills at different levels to support targeted instruction.
Building Readers’ Word Recognition
- Examine the key components of explicit phonics instruction to develop a structured approach that strengthens students’ foundational reading skills.
- Analyze and apply effective phonics and word study routines to enhance students’ decoding and word recognition abilities.
- Design activities that integrate differentiated blending, spelling, high-frequency words, and applicable strategies to support diverse learners in building word recognition skills.
Strengthening Language Comprehension
- Examine language comprehension and refine teaching strategies to effectively support skilled readers’ development.
- Identify complex text elements that offer rigorous instruction opportunities.
- Analyze how writing activities can deepen students’ engagement and understanding of text.
- Discover high-leverage strategies for teaching reading comprehension, focusing on content-based approaches, and plan instructional activities.
Developing Vocabulary-Rich Instruction
- Develop strategies for building robust language comprehension.
- Identify criteria for selecting key vocabulary words to teach within complex texts.
- Examine and apply explicit vocabulary instruction strategies.
- Explore the pillars of word consciousness and understand their role in vocabulary acquisition and language comprehension.
Interweaving the Strands for Fluent Reading
- Develop a systematic approach to building thriving, skilled readers.
- Examine the essential elements of reading fluency.
- Explore instructional routines and strategies that support fluency development..
- Analyze the role of metacognition in reading comprehension.
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