Events for April 22, 2025 - March 8, 2025

Summer Book Study 2024-Teaching Words and How They Work

Join us as we discuss Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert's book, Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results. We know vocabulary is a critical key to comprehension, and this study will help us know which words to teach and how best to teach them. This week: Chapters 1 and 2 with Jeannette Russell - the impact of small changes in vocabulary instruction.

Summer Book Study 2024-Teaching Words and How They Work

Join us as we discuss Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert's book, Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results. We know vocabulary is a critical key to comprehension, and this study will help us know which words to teach and how best to teach them. This week: Chapters 3 and 4 with Amy McGovern - the importance of a small group of word families, plus a short history of English and why it matters.

Summer Book Study 2024-Teaching Words and How They Work

Join us as we discuss Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert's book, Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results. We know vocabulary is a critical key to comprehension, and this study will help us know which words to teach and how best to teach them. This week: Chapters 5 and 6 with Sarah Rowse-Borrelli - multiple meanings and uses of words, plus vocabulary networks of narrative texts.

Summer Book Study 2024-Teaching Words and How They Work

Join us as we discuss Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert's book, Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results. We know vocabulary is a critical key to comprehension, and this study will help us know which words to teach and how best to teach them. This week: Chapters 7 and 8 with Jeanne Schopf - vocabulary networks of informational text, plus vocabulary and text complexity systems.

Summer Book Study 2024-Teaching Words and How They Work

Join us as we discuss Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert's book, Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results. We know vocabulary is a critical key to comprehension, and this study will help us know which words to teach and how best to teach them. This week: Chapter 9 with Gabi Bell Jiménez - vocabulary study for English Learners.

The Role of Oral Language in Literacy

Join us for this free virtual event with Dr. Danielle 'Nell' Thompson, founder and president of The Transformative Reading Teacher Group and president of The Reading League Montana.

Multilingual Learners and the Science of Reading

Join Dr. Gabi Bell Jiménez to delve into the complex intersection of multilingual learners and the science of reading. She will debunk old myths and discuss evidence-based teaching practices that support the literacy development of multilingual learners.

Turning the Tide 2024!

Join us in person or via live stream as we welcome the nation's top literacy researchers, practitioners, and thought leaders to Wisconsin. Registration is open!

Two Crucial Questions About Act 20

Join Barb Novak, Director of the Wisconsin Office of Literacy at WI DPI, to discuss these two questions: Is your instruction systematic and explicit? Do your materials or instruction contain 3-cueing?

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