Register Now   Date: Saturday, January 11, 2025 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503011 Reading Assessment: Biliterate Reading Zones The goals of this session are to orient to a Biliterate Reading Trajectory.  Teachers will have an opportunity to examine the Biliterate Reading Zones, a Holistic Bilingual reading Assessment in Action and analyze how to use assessment outcomes to plan reading instruction for individual students. Escamilla et al (2014) Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared will be among the primary tools leveraged in this series as well other research-based resources.   Audience: Teachers K-5 (Spanish-English)

Register Now   Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503010 Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud  Teachers will explore a variety of research-based strategies to support literacy-based English Language Development in a dual language English-Spanish classroom setting, a transitional bilingual classroom or other language resource model. Some of the literacy based strategies include making cross-language connections (Metalanguage) and Interactive Read Aloud. This seminar is one of a series of workshops aimed at developing biliteracy. The goals of this series are to develop [...]