Enrollment Options:

1. Common Reading Behaviors
   1. Receive an overview of reading assessments and progression of basic reading skills, then analyze the common reading behaviors you can expect to see at each elementary grade level.
2. Defining Explicit Instruction
   1. Learn the meaning of explicit instruction, how you can utilize this method to teach reading skills, and what explicit instruction lessons can look like in an elementary classroom.
   2. Learn how to identify a reading behavior or skill you can teach in a future or current lesson and how to appropriately group students.
3. Modeling & Guided Practice
   1. Learn how to model a new skill, then how to design activities to support students through guided practice.
   2. Then, learn how to plan for what guided practice might look like in a lesson of your content area and grade level.
4. Independent Practice
   1. Learn about activities you can create and methods for implementing them into the independent practice portion of your lesson.
   2. Then, reflect on what independent practice might look like in a lesson of your content area and grade level.
5. Assessment
   1. Analyze various assessments that can be utilized during and after explicit instruction to ensure instructional goals are met. Then reflect on how to select an appropriate assessment for a lesson of your content area and grade level.
6. Putting it All Together
   1. Using the sample provided, build your explicit instruction lesson plan for an upcoming lesson.
7. Applying What you Have Learned
   1. Get ideas on how to implement the concepts into your classroom, find a list of online resources that provide explicit instruction ideas and strategies, and read the research behind explicit instruction that supports this evidence- based professional development