Katie is an educator whose experiences include working as a teacher in elementary, bilingual, international, and college level settings. Currently Katie works as a professor at DePaul University in Chicago specializing in literacy. She has co-developed and facilitated summer writing institutes, worked with diverse districts as a consultant, and has sustained working relationships with schools, teachers, and administrators through teacher research, study groups, critical literacy workshops, and collaborative writing for publication. She is currently the president of the Whole Language Umbrella, a conference of NCTE. Her recent book is entitled, What If and Why?: Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms, in addition to her numerous published articles.
View Katie Van Sluys' Resume/Vita, Publications and Workshops.
Level: K-8
- Writing, Writing Workshops
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Engaging with Literature
- Multilingual Learners in Literacy Classrooms
- On-going Assessment Informing Instruction
- Critical Literacies
- Teacher Induction
- Teacher Research
What If and Why?: Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms
Inviting All Children into Learning: Building on Students Cultural and Linguistic Resources
Audience: K-12 Teachers and administrators
In this workshop, Katie works with educators to explore understandings of language learning for students new to English. Participants are invited to explore strategic curricular possibilities for engaging language learners in their schools and classrooms.
Developing Readers that READ: Critical Reading Strategies for All Readers
As teachers of reading we need shared understandings about reading processes and practices, students’ needs, and the best tools and strategies to support our students in becoming life-long readers. To support students’ development of decoding, comprehension, and so on readers need to experience the power and potentials of being readers. 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.