NCTE offers consultants and services on content area literacy instruction that when used together, provide extended learning opportunities for teachers and makes a positive impact on learning. These opportunities include the ELL Pathways Program, Web Seminars and ELL 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. Make your request today!
Content Literacy Strategies that Work
Consultant: Nancy Frey
Audience: content teachers in middle and high school, administrators
At the end of this session, participants will be able to understand the use and advantages of content literacy strategies, describe a decision-making process for identifying and implementing a school-wide literacy approach, identify the components of a professional development plan to foster teacher proficiency and collegial coaching, link schoolwide approaches to a systematic accountability design, complete a planning tool for establishing and implementing a school-wide literacy program for their school site.
Developing Literate Behaviors
Consultant: Nancy Frey
Audience: Elementary and English teachers
At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe a gradual release of responsibility model for developing literacy (focus lessons, guided instruction, collaborative learning, and independent work), identify the ways in which content, process, and product must be differentiated to ensure that students are successful in developing literacy, design an integrated unit of study for students, based on content standards using a gradual release of responsibility model of instruction.
Not Your Father’s Comic Books: Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom
Consultant: Nancy FreyAudience: Middle and high school English and content area teachers, librarians and media specialists
At the end of the session, participants will be able to compare and contrast graphic novels and other visual genres, including comic books, manga, anime, and e-zines, and fanzines, identify criteria for selecting graphic novels for classroom use, based on developmental levels, content objectives, and readability, design ways for graphic novels to be used in instruction, teach composition through student development of their own graphic novels and link these practices to traditional academic writing.