Literacy Instruction Services
Teachers 21 provides customized professional development for schools and districts dealing with all aspects of literacy instruction in PreK-12 classrooms. Our literacy work with schools focuses on how educators can increase reading and writing achievement and engagement for all students. Our work with educators is designed to:
- Deepen administrators', coaches' and teachers' knowledge base of how to teach reading and writing grounded in current research
- Support sustainable change among teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators
- Promote embedded learning opportunities for professionals tailored to the strengths and needs of individual educators, schools and districts
- Improve achievement for all students
Our Approach to Literacy
Our customized approach, based on the needs of each client, often includes a blend of:
- Instructional leadership development and strategic planning to launch and sustain shifts in instructional practices
- Identification and alignment of school-wide beliefs and practices for effective literacy instruction
- Examination of relevant current research and methodologies
- Modeling of instructional approaches in classrooms
- Job-embedded instructional coaching to support application of professional learning
- PLC coaching to support design and implementation of effective literacy instruction, lesson-study, and use of meaningful / actionable assessments of student literacy learning
Sample Services
A sampling of some areas we frequently focus on with clients includes:
- instructional approaches aligned to the common core
- launching young readers and writers (Grades PreK-2)
- developing the intermediate reader and writer (grades 3-8)
- reading and writing across curriculum content areas (grades K-12)
- reading specialist and literacy coach skill development
- strategies for unlocking student engagement and learning
- genre studies (persuasive, informative/explanatory, poetic and narrative reading and writing)
- close reading approaches
- reading and writing assessment practices
- word study / vocabulary development
- launching and sustaining reading and writing workshops
- teacher and peer conferencing
- readers' and writers' notebooks
- methodologies that increase student engagement, independence, and ownership of learning
- early intervention practices
- flexible small group instructional practices