The goal of the Sustaining Strong Readers: Fall Middle School Literacy Training for Content Area Teachers and Coaches professional development set for Oct. 24-26 and Nov. 16-17 at the Jackson State University R & D Center in Jackson is to support foundational and adolescent Science of Reading practices through daily instructional methodology.
The training will support grade 4-8 teachers, building principals, cross-curricular teachers, and instructional coaches in creating readers across content areas while teaching grade level content.
During this training, teachers and administrators will develop an understanding of the following:
- Structured literacy and the complexities of adolescent literacy
- Phonology/phonemic proficiency instruction using a multimodal approach
- Language comprehension concepts such as morphological awareness, syntactic awareness, and lexicon expansion
- Middle school instructional routine
- Strategic leadership strategies to build adolescent literacy proficiency across a district
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For questions, contact ELA Content Specialist, Natalie Crowder, ncrowder@mdek12.org.