Comprehensive Literacy Webinar Series
The Comprehensive Literacy Webinar Series focuses on best practices in literacy instruction and resources available to school divisions. Through the diverse expertise of our partners and presenters, the Virginia Department of Education's goal is to offer timely, research-based, and instructionally sound sessions to Virginia educators.
2020-2021
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| Routines and Structures for Learning in Place | Join us as we share best practices for establishing and maintaining routines and structures for learning in place. This webinar will also explore how to create at home learning spaces and review available resources to support students, families, and local school division communities. | Thursday, September 3rd at 3:00 p.m. | |
| Best Practices for Literacy Learning in Place | In this session, we will review best practices for literacy instruction and methods of virtual learning; and address considerations for planning and focus areas of instruction in a variety of learning environments. | Thursday, September 10th at 3:00 p.m. | |
| Elementary: Social & Emotional Learning and Reading | Elementary: Participants will learn how to create emotionally and physically safe, supportive, and engaging learning environments that promote all students’ social and emotional development. Specific strategies and considerations will be shared for how English teachers can enhance instructional practices to embed SEL into their curriculum and lesson plans. | Thursday, September 17th at 3:00 p.m. | |
| Secondary: Social & Emotional Learning and Reading | Secondary: Participants will learn how to create emotionally and physically safe, supportive, and engaging learning environments that promote all students’ social and emotional development. Specific strategies and considerations will be shared for how English teachers can enhance instructional practices to embed SEL into their curriculum and lesson plans. | Thursday, September 24th at 3:00 p.m. | |
| Assessment Supports for 2020-2021 | The English Instruction Office will collaborate with the Office of Student Assessment to provide supports and best practices for English instruction leading up to end of year assessments. | Thursday, October 1st at 3:00 p.m.
Visit Assessment Supports for 2020-2021 Literacy Webinar Series for additional assessment resources. |
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| Integrating the Four Strands in a Hybrid Model | Join us as we explore effective ways to integrate the strands of communication, reading, writing, and research in a hybrid instructional model. We will look at how to maximize instructional time and resources to support student comprehension and growth in a skills-based course. | Thursday, October 8th at 3:00 p.m. | |
| Understand Scoring | Join us as we explore Understand Scoring, an application provides educators with information about Virginia’s writing assessments, including the rubrics and anchor papers that illustrate each score point on the Composing/Written Expression and Usage/Mechanics domains used to score the short-paper component of the Grade 8 and End-of-Course SOL writing test, the 5thgrade local alternative assessment, and the Local Performance Assessment to Verify Credits in Writing. | Wednesday, October 14that 3:00 p.m.
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2019-2020
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| Comprehensive Literacy-Best Practices for Elementary Reading Blocks | Discussion of best practices around elementary reading blocks with a panel of experts from the field and from the University of Richmond. |
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Best Practices in K-2 Reading Instruction |
Participants will review researched best practices in early literacy and learn how to spiral learning structures to promote beginning reading skills. |
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Best Practices in Grades 3-5 Reading Instruction: The Reading/Writing Connection |
Conversations with teachers and division-level leaders around best practices in upper elementary reading. Focus will include the use of integrated strands and paired passages for critical thinking and engagement. |
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Reading in the Middle Grades |
Conversations with teachers and division-level leaders around best practices in middle school language arts. Focus will include the use of integrated strands and paired passages for critical thinking and engagement. |
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Sharing with School Divisions Lessons Learned from Divisions on Best Instructional Practices |
Webinar aimed at division-level English supervisors and leaders to address findings from the VDOE interviews with schools that maintained or went up in their 2018-2019 Standards of Learning (SOL) Reading data. Collaboration with Assessment Office. |
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Balanced Assessment: Middle School Writing in the History Classroom |
Participants will receive strategies for creating interdisciplinary tasks that integrate middle school English writing skills with middle school history content and historical thinking strategies. Collaboration with the History Office. |
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Understand Scoring: Performance Assessments for Verified Credit in Writing |
Webinar aimed at division-level English supervisors and building administrators around the use of Pearson’s Understand Scoring to provide support for the scoring of local performance assessments to verify credit in writing. Collaboration with Assessment Office. |
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Co-teaching in the English classroom |
Webinar about best practices in the co-taught classroom. Participants will learn strategies to support students in their literacy journey. Collaboration with the Special Education Office. |
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Academic Language- English Learners in the English classroom |
Webinar participants will learn strategies to support ALL learners in their English classrooms. Review of academic language and the scaffolding of supports necessary for success in the general classroom. Collaboration with English Learner Instruction Specialist. |
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PALS: How to use reports to inform instructional decisions in your school |
Participants will learn how to interact with the data available in order to make instructional decisions for their classrooms, grade level, and schools. |
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Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Integrating the English standards into other content areas |
Participants will review strategies for incorporating reading in the content areas with specific attention to performance tasks in upper elementary and middle school content classrooms. |
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Contact
For more information, please contact Jill Nogueras, English Coordinator, by email at Jill.Nogueras@doe.virginia.gov.