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Consultants and Services on Balanced Literacy

NCTE offers consultants and services on balanced liteacy instruction that when used together, provide extended learning opportunities for teachers and makes a positive impact on learning.  These opportunities include the Pathways ProgramWeb Seminars and books for study groups.  

Consultants are available to present one-day or multi-day presentations or provide year-round consulting.  All workshops and presentations can be customized to meet your specific needs.    

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Consultants

K-5
Peggy Albers: reading for meaning, content literacy, integration of the arts, critical literacy 
Mary Cappellini: balanced literacy, reading/writing workshops, guided reading, English language learners, comprehension strategies
Barbara Flores: beginning literacy for English language learners
Shari Frost:  guided reading, shared reading, read-alouds, multicultural literacy
Susi Long: classrooms to suport young readers and writers

Diane Parker: inquiry-based learning, reading/writing
Trina Strickland Randle: shared reading, spelling, literature circles, guided reading
Reba Wadsworth: children's literature, read alouds

Sample Workshops

Becoming Critical Literacy Educators or What’s Critical in Critical Conversations? (Grades K-12)
Consultant:  Peggy Albers
In this workshop, teachers are introduced to critical literacy and its significance in English language arts curriculum. Through participatory demonstrations, teachers will learn to read a range of texts critically, from language-, art-, film-, music-, to drama-based texts.

Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers
Consultant:  Susi Long
Audiences:  PreK, kindergarten, first–third grade teachers, and administrators. 
Susi works with teachers and administrators to envision classroom structures and strategies that build on what we know about young children as readers and writers. Engaging in the practices themselves, teachers will explore the teaching of skills and strategies in the context of purposeful literacy events as well as ways to articulate the power of their teaching to others. 

 

 

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