Keynote
Title: Reading Strategies: Essential Teaching for Every Classroom
Description: Reading strategies offer children the essential "how to" to accomplish any goal or skill: from engaging with their reading, to decoding and blending to read words accurately, to reading fluently, to understand what they read. Reading strategies make teaching more explicit, and support independence, and they belong in every classroom, no matter your curriculum or your approach to literacy instruction. In this keynote, Jennifer Serravallo will review the broad and deep research-based strategy instruction, what makes an effective strategy, and how to use goals and skill progressions to identify the right strategy at the right time--whether planning (or supplementing) curriculum or making decisions for differentiated instruction.

Session
Title: Bringing Strategies to Life: Small Group Instruction in the K-8 Classroom
Description: Drawing from Jennifer Serravallo’s Teachers Guide to Reading Conferences and Teaching Writing in Small Groups, this workshop will show you how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. The emphasis will be on essential practices for optimizing small groups that will help you teach with efficiency, improve independence, and support your students' skill development. The engaging videos and Jen’s ability to break down complex concepts into actionable, doable steps will equip participants to be able to try out the ideas right away.