Kentucky Text Set Project connects teachers and books
The Kentucky Text Set Project is intensive training designed to help teachers begin creating challenging, grade-level specific texts sets over a variety of engaging literacy and literary topics.
Kentucky Reading Association conference set
Mark your calendars for the Kentucky Reading Conference, scheduled for Oct. 28-29 at the Galt House in Louisville.
A tool to build academic language in grades 6-8
The Strategic Education Research Partnership has created a free resource to increase students’ opportunities to develop academic language, discussion and argumentation skills.
Nominations sought for Writing Program Advisory Committee
Nominees should be classroom teachers (K-12) who have an interest in promoting literacy, especially writing, in their classrooms
Shelby County paving the way in creating thinkers through annotating
For the past five years, through a collaboration among Shelby County public schools, the Ohio Valley Education Cooperative and the Public Education Business Coalition of Denver, teachers in the OVEC region have been able to access professional learning on annotating.
Writing to learn
Learn how annotating texts can deepen a student’s understanding of the books they read.
On teaching writing – Part I
If we are to empower our students to become good writers, we must move beyond our former feelings of inadequacy as writers and teach our students how to communicate in a written format.
An interview with Jefferson County’s literacy instructional coach
Kimberly Mucker Johnson says her unique position allows her to reach out to and learn from a wide range of teachers.
Kentucky Reading Project: Too good to be true?
The Collaborative Center for Literacy Development’s Kentucky Reading Project provides teachers with free graduate credit, high quality professional learning and a great opportunity to improve their literacy instruction.
Louisville Writing Project deadline set
The deadline for applying for the Louisville Writing Project Summer Institute is March 2.