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Bring Clarity, Structure, and Confidence to Your Literacy Instruction

On-demand Spotlight PDs designed to help bring clarity with simple literacy routines, implement structured literacy, and make confident, data-informed decisions without overwhelm.

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→ If you’re just getting started with structured literacy (or want to dive deeper into a specific instructional routine), start with the Reading Rules We Teach or trainings related to executive functioning, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, or writing. They will give you great foundations and simple routines you can implement with students right away.

→ If you’re looking to understand how to put together a structured literacy intervention lesson, take a look at our free Spotlight PDs all about How to Structure Elementary Literacy Intervention, or if you’re working with secondary students, check out Inside a Secondary Literacy Intervention Lesson.

→ If you’re looking to turn your literacy data into action, jump into our Data to Decisions or the Progress Monitoring Spotlight PD.

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Are your students struggling to write effective sentences?

Students know their phonics patterns. They can identify parts of speech. They’ve practiced grammar worksheets. But when it’s time to actually write... the sentences fall apart.

Run-ons. Fragments. Ideas that are all over the place. Spelling that doesn’t reflect what they’ve been taught. And when you ask them to “edit,” they read it once, change a period, and call it done.

It’s not that they haven’t been taught. It’s that they don’t have a clear, repeatable process for putting it all together.

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Brainstorm. Draft. Edit. Sound familiar?

You've probably heard of these steps. Your students probably have too. But this training isn't really about the steps; it's about what students do when they get stuck and how to give them a writing process they can actually use on their own.

This 1-hour on-demand PD on long-form writing routines for K–6 teachers will help students plan, draft, and edit independently without losing voice or structure.