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November 2nd - 3rd, 2024 - at VOALC

Learning and literacy doesn’t occur in a vacuum. When students read to learn, they employ both their word recognition and their language comprehension. A key component of this comprehension is background knowledge. How do teachers support students in building background knowledge? How do we engage students in new content and learning? One answer: Text Sets. Using text sets in the classroom supports the key comprehension skill of building knowledge, enhances engagement and interest and builds in multimodal learning.  

Join OWP and K-12 teachers as we define text sets and explore their power in the literacy classroom. Participants will read current research  and rationale for using text sets to build reading and writing practices, engage with multiple text sets to support literacy skill instruction and leave with your own text set to use in your classroom. Built for and by K-12 teachers of any content area.

One semester hour of graduate credit or 1.3 CEUs. 

October 14th - November 8th, 2024 - Online

As teachers attending conferences, learning in professional development, and taking workshops, we learn new ideas that we take back to our classrooms and practices. But, too often, we do this in isolation. Join OWP for a month-long Implementing Literacy Practices workshop. This workshop focuses on implementing literacy practices learned at the OWP Teacher Conference, in OWP Professional Development at a school and/or from readings selected by the instructor. Teachers will be implementing literacy practices in their classroom, setting goals and inquiry questions, reflecting on their reading and teaching practice, and responding to peers. Open to K-12 teachers.

This class earns 1 graduate credit or 1.3 CEUs.