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In this Panel-style discussion, The Burgettstown, Pine Richland and Northgate Secondary Administration will share their experiences implementing intervention at the secondary level within an MTSS framework.

03. Breaking Barriers: How School Leaders Can Prioritize Practices That Maximize Literacy Learning Disrupted literacy skill acquisition was predicted at the onset of COVID-19; however, the most effective methods for accelerating learning upon return to consistent instruction is still being determined. This session is intended to assist leaders, administrators, and the educators responsible for instructional design with sifting through the mass of perspectives and data to select action items that are most likely to improve student literacy achievement. In this session, we’ll discuss research-informed priority practices that aim to maximize accelerated literacy learning.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 04. Structured Literacy Among English Learners: What Every Teacher Should Know There are 5 million English learners attending public schools today. Every educator must therefore understand how to design and implement Structured Literacy among this diverse population of students. This session will address the evidence-based practices for incorporating intentional oral language strategies within Structured Literacy lessons. Participants will learn the cross-linguistic features of several languages and how to design reading instruction which integrates first and second language knowledge. Strategies will be modeled and practiced for ease of implementation.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ This session will include a panel of teacher preparation educators who will discuss how they include the Science of Reading and Structured literacy in their programs.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ Participants in this workshop will learn why summarizing has been identified through research as highly effective for developing both comprehension and writing. Practical suggestions for explicit teaching of summary writing based on text and non-text sources will be shared, including scaffolds.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 08. The Syntax Attuned Educator: Supporting Students’ Ability to Comprehend and Write Sentences Syntactic knowledge, the ability to understand a variety of grammatical structures within the context of a sentence, supports students’ comprehension of text. This session presents research on syntax and explains its critical role in comprehending complex text. Armed with this understanding, educators learn how to teach their students the functions of sentence parts—words, phrases, and clauses—in order to show them how to unpack the meaning of sentences they encounter in text.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 09. Teaching reading using a speech-to-print approach: A new twist of the Reading Rope What exactly is speech-to-print instruction, and why does it have a such a strong positive impact on learning to read, write, and spell? A “speech-to-print” approach puts spoken language first to leverage the brain's innate, biological wiring and organization for oral language. With “speech to print”, spelling is the gateway through which students learn how to read and write. Students first learn how to attend to the sound structure of spoken English words and then how to connect and combine sounds, letter patterns, and meanings to read and spell words. This is exactly how the brain works in good readers and writers and current reading science research, including brain-imaging studies, shows strong gains in reading and writing performance and added academic benefits for students receiving speech-to-print instruction vs. print-to-speech instruction. ALL students – and especially students who have or are at high-risk for reading and writing problems – can benefit from a speech-to-print approach to reading and writing. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, classroom aide, literacy coach or consultant, interventionist or other specialist, this two-part course will empower you with a purposeful understanding of speech-to-print instruction and give you specific and practical ideas that have a powerful impact on students’ reading and writing. You’ll see how easy it is to make everyday teaching practices more effective by giving them a speech-to-print tweak. You’ll leave with useful ideas that you can immediately put into action to quickly observe positive changes in your students' learning.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ Come learn about a class-wide reading intervention for grades 2-8 that will raise the reading proficiency of your students. Lindsay implemented this class-wide intervention and her class median score of 50 words correct per minute improved to 64 words correct per minute in just 2 weeks. Come learn how you can apply this intervention in your classroom and listen as Lindsay shares her tips, mistakes, and questions as she applied research to her practice this past year. Leave with specific strategies and resources to implement this research-based intervention in your classroom.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ Join reading intervention author, Marilyn Sprick. Explore what it takes to help older students move out of the reading doldrums to reading with confidence and motivation. Listen to and hear the difference as intervention students take pride in their improvements.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 13. ECRI - A School’s Journey in Systematic Equitable Reading Outcomes for All Students A team from Easterly Parkway Elementary in State College, PA will share its journey to student literacy success through Enhancing Core Reading Instruction (ECRI). The team will share the past, present, and future of our transition to systematic and explicit instruction. A discussion and review of data including how our diverse community of learners are benefiting from the newly formed MTSS processes.