Time: 8:30am-4:30pm Eastern

Location: Embassy Suites Greensboro Airport Hotel
204 Centreport Drive,
Greensboro, North Carolina, 27409

Description: This session will provide participants an overview of the recommendations from the following Institute of Education Sciences and REL Southeast literacy tools Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade, Professional learning communities facilitator’s guide for the What Works Clearinghouse practice guide: Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade , School Leader's Literacy Walkthrough: Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third Grades, and Summer Reading Camp Self-study Guide and highlight activities that may be used to implement the recommendations in reading instruction, intervention, and summer reading camp settings.

Partnership or Research Alliance: Improving Literacy Research Alliance

Audience: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction staff, North Carolina school district staff, administrators, literacy coaches

Speakers: Barbara Foorman, REL Southeast
Marcia Kosanovich, REL Southeast
Phyllis Underwood, REL Southeast
Kevin Smith, REL Southeast
Laurie Lee, REL Southeast

Report Citation: Foorman, B., Beyler, N., Borradaile, K., Coyne, M., Denton, C. A., Dimino, J., Furgeson, J., Hayes, L., Henke, J., Justice, L., Keating, B., Lewis, W., Sattar, S., Streke, A., Wagner, R., & Wissel, S. (2016). Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade. (NCEE 2016-4008). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from the NCEE website: http://whatworks.ed.gov

Kosanovich, M. & Foorman, B. (2016). Professional learning communities facilitator’s guide for the What Works Clearinghouse practice guide: Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (REL 2016-227). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.

Kosanovich, M., Smith, K., Hensley, T., Osborne-Lampkin, L. T., & Foorman, B. (2015). School Leader's Literacy Walkthrough: Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third Grades. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED577453.

Smith, K. G., & Foorman, B. R. (2015). Summer Reading Camp Self-Study Guide (REL 2015–070). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.