Learning Opportunity

Structured Literacy - Rethinking Your Approach of Literacy for All (An Overview)

This session has been completed.
Facilitator: Kelly Gibbs
Date:April 13, 2021
Time:1:00 pm to 3:00 pm MTN
Cost:
No Charge
Location: Virtual
Session Code: 21-DD-EPS-KG-239
Type:
Webinar
Focus: English Language Arts & Literacy

Target Audience

District Leaders, Reading Specialists and Literacy Consultants

About this Learning Opportunity

The Elements of Structured Literacy are specific and are meant to support all learners.

This session will ask you to reflect on literacy approaches in classrooms, how Structured Literacy can serve all learners or a population of struggling learners and what instructional processes teachers need to engage in to meet the diverse learners in the classroom. We will look at phonological awareness and decoding, as well as vocabulary and literacy knowledge strands that are woven together to create literacy for all!

All learning opportunities with the ERLC regional team will focus on the Alberta Education and district priority areas.

This learning opportunity is being subsidized through funding from Alberta Education.

About the Facilitator

Kelly has spent her educational career supporting students with a variety of needs and supporting staff building instructional strategies. She wanted to know more about how students learn and why they had difficulty learning...so back to school she went! As a teacher and a Reading Specialist, Kelly holds a Masters degree from the University of Alberta in the area of language and literacy development and specialized assessment. She built her knowledge of UDL through her work at the University of Manitoba. Her work as a Consultant supported teachers in building inclusive practice in all divisions. She has in-depth experience doing professional development, with a focus on instructional strategies and implementation of such strategies. She has taught pre-service teachers at the University of Alberta for the past year. Kelly's joy has been found in supporting staff in the use of research-based strategies that make teaching and learning intentional and meaningful.