The science of reading is not just about phonics! In this jam-packed day of learning, we’ll dive into the language comprehension strands of the reading rope. Christina DeCarbo  https://www.missdecarbo.com/ shows you how to cultivate a classroom of little learners who love words! We’ll study best practices for vocabulary instruction, and discover the importance of oral language, direct and indirect vocabulary instruction, morphology, context, word play, and more!  In addition to vocabulary, Christina shares the importance of background knowledge and the critical role it plays in our students’ comprehension skills. Discover creative whole-group and small-group activities that cement understanding and result in rich discussions. Then, Christina shows you how to connect your students’ content knowledge to writing through developmentally appropriate, purposeful, and explicit sentence-level work. Come ready to participate in tons of engaging, sentence-building activities that will turn your students into sentence superstars. Christina leaves you with a toolbox of purposeful comprehension, vocabulary, and writing practices, and a heart that is overflowing with literacy excitement!

Registration closes 7.23.26 at 12:00pm

Join your fellow RTI colleagues in and around St. Clair County in this information sharing roundtable.  Discussions will focus on best practices, challenges, successes, resource sharing and more.  Bring a fully charged device with you to this collaborative event. Registration closes September 25 at 12:00pm.