NCTE offers consultants and services on reading instruction that when used together, provide extended learning opportunities for teachers and makes a positive impact on learning. These opportunities include the Adolescent Literacy Pathways Program, Web Seminars, Resource Kits and books on reading 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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Content Area Literacy: Reading for Meaning
Consultant: Peggy Albers
Audience: 3-12 teachers
In this single or multiple-day workshop, teachers will understand how the reading process works, and how learners make sense of content materials. Teachers will learn the significance of understanding text structures within content materials and reader stances, and how to use these structures and stances to support students’ writing.
Motivating the Unmotivated Adolescent Reader
Consultant: William Kist
Audiences: Teachers (Grades 5-Adult), Administrators, Literacy Coaches
In a single-day or multiple-day workshop, teachers will read about and discuss trends and strategies used in adolescent literacy education. A key component of the workshop will be strategies to motivate struggling readers, both those “a-literates” who just don’t like to read and those who struggling with decoding and comprehension.
Moving Middle School Readers Toward a Literature Based Reading Program
Consultant: Katherine McKnight
In this one day workshop, the participants will learn strategies that support students to read more independently in a reading workshop setting. If our students are able to experience reading as an enjoyable activity, they will be more inclined to personally connect with text worlds. Through comprehension strategies, writing techniques and access to a wide variety of interesting texts, students can engage in a dynamic reading and writing learning environment through a reading workshop setting.
Struggling Readers in the Content Classroom Presentation
Consultant: Dona Italiano
Dona address the needs and profiles of struggling readers in this workshop.
Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers (preK, K, 1st–3rd grade)
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: PreK, kindergarten (and their teaching assistants), first–third grade teachers, and administrators. In these workshops, 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.
Where’s the Phonics (and other stuff people always ask you)?: Understanding and Articulating Children’s Learning Within Semantically-Rich Classrooms
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: Classroom teachers, teaching assistants, and administrators in schools that serve children in preK, kindergarten through third grade classrooms. This workshop engages teachers and administrators directly in practices that support children as thoughtful literacy users and learners while demonstrating how specific skills and strategies are learned in the context of those experiences.
Teaching Standardized Testing as a Genre
Consultant: Trina Strickland Randle
This session will engage teachers in thinking through reading and writing testing strategies. Teachers will get ideas for how to teach about standardized testing as a writing unit of study.
Developing Readers that READ: Critical Reading Strategies for All Readers
Consultant: Katie Van Sluys
Audience: K-5 teachers, coaches, teacher leaders
Work with Katie Van Sluys in a day-long workshop to pursue issues and strategies to help all students’ in becoming critical readers who use reading in their everyday lives for pleasure, problem solving, and action. Together we will use rich and relevant literature to explore a range of reading strategies and practices to further develop the reading repertoire of readers in your classroom(s) so that our students not only can read but do read.
Exploring Read-Aloud as a Strategy for Promoting Active Reading
Consultant: Kathryn Mitchell Pierce
Audience: PreK-3 or 3-6 grade classroom teachers, reading specialists and parent volunteers
Reading aloud to students from picture books as well as from a variety of other print sources helps students develop a sense of how authors use language for different purposes. In addition, read-alouds offer rich opportunities to highlight strategies for comprehending. This workshop focuses on selecting materials for read-aloud, planning the read-aloud experience (and staying flexible enough to follow students’ questions and ideas), and connecting read-aloud experiences to other parts of the school day.