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SUMMARY: Designing Custom Bilingual Readers to Spark Meaningful Spanish Reading Success 
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2026\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 275503047\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Designing Custom Bilingual Readers to Spark Meaningful Spanish Reading Success  \nDiscover how to elevate your early Spanish literacy instruction by crafting custom books that align with the language your students bring to the classroom. This 2-hour webinar empowers you to design tailored bilingual readers using high-utility verbs\, giving you the tools to accelerate reading comprehension and ignite student confidence. \n\nHonor Natural Language Flow: Learn how to design readers that embrace true bilingualism and explore Spanish syntax by moving beyond rigid\, artificial text structures.\nLeverage High-Utility Verbs: Master the strategy of embedding high-frequency action words (quiere\, va\, tiene) so students can immediately connect decoding to real-world meaning\, while also supporting their writing.\nCreate Your Own Prototype: Participate in a collaborative design lab to draft a custom 4-to-8-page mini-book ready to use with your students.\n\nTarget Audience: Primary Spanish Bilingual Teachers (K-2)\, Instructional Coaches\, Administrators\, Bilingual Program Directors
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/designing-custom-bilingual-readers-to-spark-meaningful-spanish-reading-success
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Integrating Trabalenguas\, dichos y adivinanzas in Spanish Literacy
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, October 13\, 2026\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 275503075\n\n\n\n\n\nIntegrating Trabalenguas\, dichos y adivinanzas in Spanish Literacy \nDo you teach Spanish literacy in a bilingual or dual language program? If yes\, then you need to join me for a session geared towards bringing fun and engagement to your instruction through the use of trabalenguas\, dichos y adivinanzas. \n\nWe will explore how to engage students in Spanish literacy and oracy by using fun and popular trabalenguas\, dichos\, and adivinanzas.\nWe will examine how these non-traditional types of texts can be used as a way to teach foundational literacy skills by providing students with many different examples of Spanish language and culture.\nWe will also look at examples for using trabalenguas\, dichos\, and adivinanzas in Spanish Language Arts\, as well as connecting to English Language Arts for metalinguistic development.\n\nTarget Audience: K-5 Teachers of Spanish Literacy
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/integrating-trabalenguas-dichos-y-adivinanzas-in-spanish-literacy-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Leveraging Language in Math: Scaffolds\, Visuals\, and Translanguaging
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 275503076\n\n\n\n\n\nLeveraging Language in Math: Scaffolds\, Visuals\, and Translanguaging \nDuring this webinar we will… \n\nEngineer Word Problems for Accessibility: Learn how to rewrite\, chunk\, and modify dense math text to reduce linguistic barriers while keeping mathematical rigor high.\n\n\nAnchor Concepts with Targeted Visuals: Discover how to directly pair images\, diagrams\, and visual representations with key vocabulary and problem contexts to build deep conceptual understanding. \n\n\nCapitalize on Multilingual Assets: Apply strategic translanguaging practices that integrate students’ home languages as powerful tools for mathematical reasoning and communication. \n\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 multilingual educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/leveraging-language-in-math-scaffolds-visuals-and-translanguaging
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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SUMMARY: Putting the Illinois SLA Standards into Action: Lesson Planning for TBE Programs
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 18\, 2026\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 275503077\n\n\n\n\n\n Putting the Illinois SLA Standards into Action: Lesson Planning for TBE Programs \n How do we utilize the Illinois Spanish Language Arts standards in daily classroom instruction? This follow-up session provides TBE educators with concrete strategies to plan\, align\, and implement standards-based Spanish language arts instruction.In this session\, we will: \n\nAddress how to align the SLA standards to traditional TBE program models.\nApply SLA standards and essential understandings to weekly and daily lesson planning.\nLeverage vertical articulation insights to differentiate instruction for diverse Spanish proficiency levels within TBE classrooms.\n\nTarget Audience: TBE educators grades 3-12
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/putting-the-illinois-sla-standards-into-action-lesson-planning-for-tbe-programs
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Bilingual Writer’s Toolkit: Syllables\, Genre Verbs\, and Sentence Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, November 24\, 2026 \nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 275503078\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Bilingual Writer’s Toolkit: Syllables\, Genre Verbs\, and Sentence Mechanics \nWhy do early bilingual writers stall at the word level? Often\, it’s not because they lack phonetic knowledge\, but because they lack the specific “verb engines” required for different types of writing. This workshop provides K-2 educators with a hands-on roadmap to engineer strong independent sentences in Spanish. Together\, we will look at: \n\nPhonetic Foundations: Moving beyond basic syllables into complex structures and multi-syllabic endurance.\nThe Genre Shift: Mapping out how verb tenses\, subjects\, and endings must explicitly change when students switch between Narrative\, Informational\, and Opinion writing.\nVisual Scaffolding & Application: Practical tools to map high-utility conjugations visually\, helping students independently bridge spelling and structural sentence design. \n\nTarget Audience: Primary Spanish Bilingual Teachers (K-2)\, Instructional Coaches\, Administrators\, Bilingual Program Directors
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/the-bilingual-writers-toolkit-syllables-genre-verbs-and-sentence-mechanics
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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