Enhancing Early Literacy Instruction by Incorporating Current Research

K-2 teachers will receive PD sessions from the Crafting Minds Group introducing key findings from cognitive neuroscience and behavioral research about the “reading circuit” and practical implications for instruction. These sessions will be followed by in-building PLC meetings and coaching by literacy specialists introducing orthographic mapping and sight word instruction, building/enhancing phonemic
awareness routines, balancing predictable and decodable text, and prompting readers.