Regional Workshops

Sterling Literacy Consulting can provide engaging learning sessions for teachers and administrators in your area. We can customize a workshop to your needs. Contact us for details. If you host a workshop, your district will receive free seats for a select group of educators. Below is a set of workshop topics that we can offer. We are also willing to provide custom workshop content for your teachers in your region.

Early Literacy Topics: Effective Reading Instruction

• Effective school structures for school-wide literacy instruction​

• Scientifically Based Reading Research and Aligned Instruction

• Assessment Usage including Screening, Interim, and diagnostic

• Reading & Literacy Centers & Rotations: Facilitating Differentiated Instructional Practices

• ​Phonological Awareness to Phonemic Awareness

• Differentiating Small Group Instruction

• ​Effective Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction

“Reading to Learn” Topics

Supporting Literacy in English Language Arts or in Text-Dependent Disciplines (Social Studies and Science)​*

• Supporting Text-Based Inquiry: The Role of Texts, Tasks, and Talk

• Disciplinary Literacy Apprenticeship: Creating a Thinking Classroom

• Text Complexity, Text-Dependent Questions, and Tasks 

• Developing Text-Dependent, Cognitively Demanding Writing Tasks  ​

• Gathering Formative Data through High-Level Tasks

• Successful Implementation of Independent Reading Initiatives

• Writing Text-Based Arguments

• Studying Language & Grammar in Context

*These options can be provided for grade bands 3-5 or 6-12