October 25, 2024 Professional Learning Day

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
1 Hour

Learning Outcomes
K-12 educators or teams will strengthen their skills in:

• Reflect on strategies to discover students’ home and everyday literacy practices and build bridges to disciplinary literacy.
• Explore ways to plan opportunities to actively engage students to make meaning from text.
• Examine ways to explicitly teach the organization of ideas and language features in disciplinary texts.

Description
This self-paced online workshop is designed to empower educators with tools and strategies to enhance the reading comprehension of multilingual learners. Participants will learn how to leverage students' home and everyday literacy practices in order to build bridges to disciplinary literacy. Participants will also gain practical approaches to actively engage students in making meaning from text, with an emphasis on explicit teaching of language patterns in content specific texts.

Module Topics
Introduction Module
Module 1: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Active Reading
Module 2: Explicitly Teaching Organization and Language Patterns in Text