Ignite the passion for reading and writing in your students.
“Solutions for learning literacy excellence are definitely doable. The time is now, to act urgently and profoundly to engineer instructional settings around great chunks of time, for students as readers and writers; listeners and speakers.”
—Brian M. Pete, Decoding—The Sound of Literacy
According to a 2020 Gallup analysis, 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills, meaning that roughly 54% of Americans read below a sixth-grade level.
We have significant work to do if we’re going to shrink that number, and together, we can make great strides towards ensuring all students achieve the highest level of literacy education possible.
“We believe all students can be literate at high levels.”
—Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller, Literacy in a PLC at Work®
At Solution Tree, you have options when it comes to literacy experts, authors, workshops and conferences, and teaching resources to help you meet your state’s standards for literacy. With our comprehensive professional learning services, you are guaranteed a path to integrating academic reading comprehension and language development across all content areas.
Build, deepen, and sustain your skills with experts such as Kathy Tuchman Glass, Angela Peery, and Kathy Perez.
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Your team is ready to start building your expertise with literacy professional development
Support students in reaching desired learning outcomes in areas of literacy, particularly writing.
Increase the effectiveness of reading instruction by understanding how literacy develops.
Reinvigorate literacy teaching and learning in secondary ELA classrooms by implementing authentic reading and writing practices.
You need specialized services to deepen your expertise in literacy.
Promote deep understanding by helping readers absorb information in a text—recognizing assumptions, background knowledge, and biases.
Explore the standards specific to vocabulary, and gain ideas for curriculum and instruction to ensure students develop word-solving skills.
Discover how to effectively use challenging texts at all grade levels, and ensure students acquire close reading skills.
Ensure all learners become successful close readers of complex texts.
Acquire a toolkit for scaffolding instruction for all students, and learn how to design a customized intervention plan for your classroom, school, or district.
Transform literacy teaching and learning by integrating maker projects for elementary classrooms.
Support all students in expanding academic vocabulary with targeted, brief, daily lessons.
Teachers and administrators learn how to utilize students’ personal interests, stories, and motivations as primary sources for authentic literacy learning—promoting choice, interest, and motivation.
You’re a high-functioning team looking to sustain your expertise for literacy.
Learn to strengthen and extend your inventory of instructional practices and develop various assessments around reading, writing, speaking, and listening across content areas.
Through this highly personalized service, team members will learn how to improve student results in reading and writing with expert guidance. Your coach will draw on firsthand experience as well as the experience of other successful schools to help staff execute proven best practices in lesson design, instruction, and assessment.
Tackle your students’ literacy challenges head-on with the support of an expert coach. Teachers at every grade level will receive individualized suggestions for refining their lessons and incorporating instructional best practices. Through this guidance, staff will gain the know-how to help all students master the reading and writing skills required for college and career success.
Develop an effective instructional coaching model for all coaches to work with dual-language and bilingual educators, even when they don't speak the language of instruction.
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