Early Literacy Series

Free Early Literacy Professional Development Offer

This professional development series includes online courses and workshops. It addresses current research-based practices in early literacy by defining essential elements of early reading instruction, oral language, writing, and assessment. Teachers explore a research-based comprehensive literacy framework that can be applied directly to their classrooms.

Research-based content from the series aligns with classroom look-for strategies from the companion Early Literacy Observation Form. This form, available with the purchase of iObservation, offers content resources that help leaders provide supportive feedback to teachers as they progress through the professional development series.

SPECIAL PACKAGE AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME!

The online course and workshop libraries are now available to your school free of charge when you purchase the iObservation system by March 31, 2010. All teachers in your school receive free enrollment to an online course of your choice (a $6,000 value for 30 teachers). Your school will also have access to the staff development resource library of workshops that offers hundreds of professional development hours free (a $15,000 value)!

Stretch your professional development budget with this free package normally priced at $21,000!

Your free package, included with the purchase of iObservation system licenses, features:

Early Literacy Walkthrough & Observation Form

  • Classroom walkthrough and observation form included with iObservation system purchase
  • Classroom look-fors that align with content in the Early Literacy professional development series - online courses and workshops
  • Exemplary classroom videos that model effective early literacy strategies

Online Courses

The special package offers $6,000 of free professional development for a school with 30 teachers (normally $199 per enrollment).

  • 18 online course titles from which to choose with content based on the works of renowned authors, including Isabel Beck, Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, and Louisa Moats
  • Courses feature exemplary classroom videos modeling effective strategies and job-embedded activities to help teachers apply the strategies in their classrooms
  • Each course provides 15 professional development hours
  • Access to courses available for 12 months from time of purchase
  • View the catalog (PDF)

Workshops in the Staff Development Resource Library

The special package offers $15,000 of free professional development for 14 workshops in the series (normally $499 per workshop).

  • 14 workshops that can be delivered by a local facilitator, including your teacher leader or department chair
  • 16 additional teacher leadership and instructional coaching workshops
  • Each workshop includes a printable and reusable facilitator guide with step-by-step instructions for your local facilitator, a printable participant notebook with articles and reflection questions, and multimedia segments with modeling sequences
  • Each workshop provides six professional development hours with multiple delivery options: one 6-hour in-service day; six 1-hour staff meetings; or four 90-minute sessions on early dismissal days
  • Access to workshops available for 12 months from time of purchase
  • View the catalog (PDF)

Request more information about the special package.

Exemplary Classroom Video Demonstrating Developing Comprehension in Early Literacy

Exemplary Classroom Video Demonstrating Developing Comprehension in Early Literacy

In this sample of an exemplary video extracted from the online course Introduction to Developing Comprehension, an elementary teacher models strategies to engage her first-grade students in fluency practice and build comprehension. This course can be provided to all your teachers – free of charge – with the purchase of iObservation.