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Teacher Module Training Kits
Purpose
Each kit consists of 1-3 hour sessions focused on providing support to districts in delivering ongoing professional development for K-6 teachers throughout the school year. These trainings can be customized and are designed to be delivered at your site. They reinforce core knowledge and focus on topics addressing a significant component related to content and/or instruction in order to develop students' proficiency in reading and writing. The trainings support the implementation of all California adopted K-6 core language arts programs (SRA Open Court Reading 2000, SRA Open Court Reading 2002, Houghton Mifflin Reading, and the two alternative Spanish reading programs, SRA Foro abierto para la lectura and Houghton Mifflin Lectura).
The kits are ready for use right out of the box. A complete kit consists of:
- Presenter Guide
- PowerPoint disk
- Participant Notebooks
Organization
Each training is organized around four sections and expansion activities:
Section 1: Consult the Research
- Introduces the topic, objectives and outcomes, and explains why this topic is critical in teaching
ALL students to read
- Provides information on the topic from current scientifically based reading research (SBRR) and/or the Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools and the English-Language Arts Content Standards
Section 2: Connect to the Core
- Explores where the topic is taught in the core reading/language arts program
- Provides opportunity for application of the module content to upcoming lessons
Section 3: All Kids Can
- Focuses on the research and instructional strategies that support ALL students, specifically special needs, struggling readers, and English learners
- Provides opportunity for application of module content to support ALL students
Section 4: Take Action
- Plan to refine teaching practices using strategies learned in the module
Extend It!
- Within each training there are opportunities to deepen and extend the content through expansion activities
- Trainings can be expanded from a 1-hour presentation up to a 3-hour presentation, depending on district need and time availability
Topics & Objectives
English Learners: Power in Preteaching — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Study the guidelines and research-based recommendations for teaching English learners
- Discuss the characteristics of powerful preteaching
- Identify ways to maximize preteaching during the language arts block
- Practice preparing a preteaching lesson to increase English learners' engagement and success
Morphology: Unlocking Words — Purchase with: PO or Check
- How morphology supports spelling and vocabulary acquisition
- What academic language and concepts are required to explicitly teach morphology
- Where and how morphology is taught in the core
- What morphological structures in English might be problematic for English learners
Prewriting: Well Begun Is Half Done — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Why prewriting is a worthy investment
- What critical supports to include in every prewriting lesson
- How elaboration on core lessons ensures successful writing by all students
- How prewriting supports English learners
Questioning: Improving Comprehension — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Why asking questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy improves comprehension
- How questioning that takes students back to the text fosters improved achievement on standardized assessments
- How framing questions and responses engages students at all reading and language levels
Sounds and Spellings: Principles to Teach By — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Why it is easier and more logical to teach phonics from sound to spelling
- How to teach, review, and practice the information on the Sound/Spelling Cards
- Why sounds in English may be challenging for English learners
Spelling: Beyond the List — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Why spelling is an important skill for proficiency
- How to teach spelling beyond the list
- What strategies will help struggling spellers
Student Engagement: Create the Context — Purchase with: PO or Check
- What student engagement is
- The teacher's role in creating the context with both management and instructional interactions
- Four interactive lesson factors that contribute to student engagement
- Specific participation strategies to engage ALL learners
Text Structure: Get the Message? — Purchase with: PO or Check
- How knowledge of text structure improves comprehension
- How to use graphic organizers as tools for exposing text structures
- How linguistic clues (signal words) support students in using text structure as an aid to comprehension
- How to preteach opportunities for English learners and struggling readers
Universal Access: Practice With a Purpose — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Universal Access—what it is, why we provide it, and when
- Steps to plan purposeful, independent student work
- Ways to vary and differentiate independent work
Universal Access: Teaching Small Groups — Purchase with: PO or Check
- What universal access requires
- Why small-group teaching is critical for ensuring universal access
- How to identify needs, content, and adjustments that maximize differentiated instruction during teacher-led groups
- Which students need more explicit and intensive small-group teaching
Verbs: To Be or Not To Be — Purchase with: PO or Check
- What grammar is and why understanding it is worthwhile
- Kinds of verbs, verb tenses, and subject/verb agreement
- Verbs across the K-6 Reading/Language Arts standards
- Student writing to identify grammatical errors
- Grammatical errors made by English learners to determine any connections to primary language structures and
to consider appropriate feedback
Vocabulary: Wake Up to Words — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Word Consciousness—what it is, why it is important
- Ways teachers can foster word consciousness
- Opportunities for word consciousness in the core program
- Techniques that support English learners with word consciousness
Vocabulary: Word by Word — Purchase with: PO or Check
- Ways students learn new words
- Characteristics of high-quality vocabulary instruction
- Strategies that enrich the vocabulary lessons in the district-adopted reading/language arts program
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