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Integrating Language and Literacy: Weaving Together Strategies for Word Recognition and Oral Development in Multilingual Contexts

Course Overview

Our new workshop, features structured literacy routines that prioritize oral language development, vocabulary and comprehension can simultaneously support accurate and fluent word recognition — without sacrificing rigor. Participants will analyze research, observe model lessons, and practice instructional routines tied to the Dandelion World decodable book series, with an emphasis on maximizing student talk, leveraging students' linguistic assets, and applying planning tools to adapt instruction across Tier 1 and Tier 2 settings.

Educators will leave equipped with classroom-ready routines, planning templates, one set of Dandelion World decodable readers (Stages 1–7 or 8–15), and six months of access to pre-planned structured literacy lessons — ready to immediately improve access, equity, and outcomes for multilingual learners. 

Audience: Elementary school educators supporting multilingual students who are either below benchmark in reading and at-risk of a reading disability or have been identified with dyslexia or a specific learning disability in reading. 

15 PDPS (Self-Guided)

Earn 15 professional development hours through this flexible, self-guided online course. Work at your own pace, on your own schedule, and apply your learning directly to your practice as you go.

This option is ideal for educators seeking meaningful PD credit without the commitment of a graded assignment.

 

 

 

Enroll for $239

One Graduate Credit (Self-Guided)

Earn one graduate credit hour through this self-guided online course, completed at your own pace over 15 hours of instruction. In addition to the core course content, participants complete a final culminating assignment designed to deepen reflection and demonstrate applied understanding. A rigorous, flexible option for educators pursuing graduate-level credit.

*Additional fee of $75 is paid to Gordon College

 

Enroll for $239

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Describe multilingual learners as developing language users, drawing on WIDA-aligned language development principles.
  • Understand the difference between different bilingual education service delivery models. 
  • Use an asset-based lens, identify the language demands within structured literacy routines and foundational reading tasks.
  • Explain the instructional rationale for integrating structured literacy with language-rich practices to support English Language Learners in K–5 classrooms.
  • Deliver structured literacy lessons that maximize meaning, incorporate oral language, facilitate student interaction, and offer explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction within structured literacy frameworks.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Depending on the course format, content is delivered self-guided modules that provide content through narrated slide decks, instructional demonstrations, and supplemental readings.  

 

Pre-Planned Literacy Lessons for Multilingual Learners

Learn More about our 20-minute, Pre-Planned Structured Literacy Routines for Multilingual Learners.

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