Accelerating the Academic Literacy Skills of Your ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (Grades K-8) Presented by Rasheeda Hardy Distinguished ELL Teacher, Instructional Coach and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Working with English Language Learners in Grades K-8: ESL Teachers, ESL Paraprofessionals, Classroom Teachers Who Have ELL Students, Title I Staff, Interventionists, and Administrators

• Highly practical strategies and activities to accelerate academic literacy skills of English Language Learners (ELLs) in grades K-8
• The most effective practices to help your ELLs achieve greater success in academic literacy and language learning
• Proven strategies to significantly increase academic vocabulary, comprehension, language fluency, and reading and writing achievement
• Practical approaches and tools to significantly boost the literacy skills and confidence of your ELLs

Practical Ideas and Strategies

If you are searching for new and innovative strategies to accelerate the literacy skills of your English Language Learners (ELLs), this is a day you won’t want to miss. In this NEW seminar, distinguished ESL teacher and national presenter, RASHEEDA HARDY, will share a wide variety of practical strategies for accelerating the academic literacy skills of your ELLs while simultaneously providing them greater access to grade level content language. You’ll learn powerful tips to increase your ELLs’ motivation, interest, stamina, perseverance, and academic achievement. You will also discover a variety of strategies to develop a growth mindset through the purposeful practice of thinking, listening, speaking, reading and writing within all the content areas.

You will leave this seminar with an expanded toolbox of highly effective strategies to help you increase the success of your ELLs and an extensive instructional resource handbook that will help you immediately implement them when you return to your classroom or school.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Utilize the Most Effective Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs)
   Learn how to efficiently implement the most effective strategies to accelerate the literacy skills of your English Language Learners
2. Significantly Increase Academic Vocabulary and Language
   Learn practical, highly effective tools to significantly increase the integration of vocabulary and comprehension … Gain proven fluency strategies and instructional routines
3. Create a Culture of Growth Mindset, Stamina and Perseverance with Your ELL Students
   Learn valuable strategies to incorporate growth mindset principles to increase students’ motivation and perseverance in your classroom … Discover how the “I can” and “Not yet” attitude is extremely powerful in developing a love of learning, student ownership of learning, and resilience
4. Boost Reading and Writing Achievement and Maintain High Expectations for ELLs
   Learn innovative comprehension, communication and interactive strategies designed to boost reading and writing achievement
5. Develop Strong Literacy Skills and Enrich Academic Language Acquisition
   Learn practical ways you can help your English Language Learners make highly significant gains
6. Strengthen and Build on Your Existing Academic Content Instruction to Make Adaptations that Count for ELLs
   Target what your students truly need and utilize developmentally appropriate practices you can easily add or adapt to your existing content instruction
7. Combine Powerful Strategies to Accelerate Literacy Skills for Your ELLs
   Learn proven ways to embed fiction, non-fiction, early literacy strategies, and language learning to ensure the achievement of your ELLs … Discover powerful approaches you can use in whole group, small group and independent settings
8. Incorporate Rich Oral Language Development into Your Content Instruction
   Learn NEW ways to use oral language strategies to increase student engagement and skills for tackling complex texts … Foster the belief that your ELLs are readers and writers across the curriculum
9. Tap into and Deepen the Critical Thinking Skills of Your ELLs
   Use a wide range of formative assessments, metacognitive questioning strategies, and feedback tools to help your ELLs develop deeper levels of understanding while accelerating academic language competencies
10. Motivate Your ELLs and Increase Academic Learning
    Engage your ELLs with high-impact strategies that increase interest and time-on-task … You may be surprised at how simple these are to implement

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

• The most effective strategies and routines that will increase the achievement of your English Language Learners (ELLs)
• Classroom-proven ways to develop ELLs’ comprehension and communicative abilities
• How you can create a learning environment of “I can” and “Not yet” with your ELLs using the latest growth mindset research to empower your ELLs while maximizing their academic literacy development
• Highly effective strategies aligned with grade-level standards, designed to improve ELLs’ literacy skills and language learning
• Innovative ways to engage your ELLs with high-impact strategies that increase motivation and time on-task
• Engaging ways to support your ELLs as critical thinkers using a wide range of strategies for deeper levels of understanding
• How you can boost the literacy skills of your ELLs using proven strategies, scaffolds and growth mindset principles
• Proven ways to significantly increase interest and intensify student ownership of the learning
• New strategies for your existing ELL instructional toolbox with a focus on building students’ resilience and confidence
• Ways to incorporate multiple sources – digital media and text – to drive academic literacy and language learning
• Strategies to create a rich learning environment that facilitates developmentally appropriate practices to support ELLs’ learning and development
• Exciting tips to help you prepare activities focused on strategies and instructional routines that improve ELLs’ academic achievement and language development
• Classroom-proven and research-based strategies designed to accelerate literacy skills and the success of your ELLs
• Engaging techniques and strategies to address behavior challenges and truancy … motivate students to want to learn and come to school

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As an experienced teacher of English Language Learners and an ELL Instructional Coach, I understand very well the time pressures facing educators – not enough time for planning high quality instruction, time for creating engaging materials connected to the curriculum, or time for assessing student performance, and re-teaching or enriching further instruction.

I have created this program with the challenges we face in mind and expressly to help you support your ELLs with proven, doable and powerful approaches to accelerate their academic literacy skills. I’m excited to share with you timesaving, yet highly effective instructional tools, designed for ELLs at all language proficiency levels. As a bonus, you will see tremendous growth in your English-only students with these strategies as well. The activities I will share are classroom-proven, research-based and fun for students and teachers alike. You can use these activities across all content areas and instructional settings (whole group, small group and independent tasks).

I promise, you will leave this seminar with a wealth of high-impact strategies that are easy to incorporate in your existing program. Plus, you will actually GAIN BACK TIME and see significant benefits in your ELLs’ social and academic achievement. The techniques I share stem from best of what I and the teachers that I coach have found to be most successful with ELL students.

I look forward to meeting you at the seminar and sharing with you dozens of outstanding strategies for accelerating the academic literacy skills of your ELLs.

Partners in Learning,
Rasheeda Hardy

P.S. Armed with an extensive resource handbook and dozens of use-tomorrow strategies, you will leave this seminar with a renewed desire to make a significant difference in the lives of your English Language Learners.

Who Should Attend

Educators working with English Language Learners in Grades K-8: ESL Teachers, ESL Paraprofessionals, Classroom Teachers who have ELL Students, Interventionists, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Who Should Attend

Educators working with English Language Learners in Grades K-8: ESL Teachers, ESL Paraprofessionals, Classroom Teachers who have ELL Students, Interventionists, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Academic Literacy Skills Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• Step-by-step descriptions of dozens of powerful strategies to successfully use with your ELLs
• Classroom-proven and research-based strategies that are aligned with grade level standards to improve ELLs’ literacy skills and language learning
• New materials and exciting resources for your existing instructional toolbox for ELLs, focused on strategies and instructional routines that improve academic achievement and language development
• Practical tips for managing behavior challenges and truancy with engaging activities that motivate students to want to learn and come to school
• Easy to implement adaptations to immediately enrich your teaching and narrow achievement and opportunity gaps

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in accelerating the academic literacy skills of their ELL students.

Consultation Available
Rasheeda Hardy will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own ELL program.

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