Literacy Retreat 2025 - Elementary

Everything we read is a mentor text! See how to seamlessly connect powerful reading instructional strategies with writing response, author’s craft, and grammar lessons in ways that are engaging, meaningful, and productive. We’ll model three reading strategies (including one for pre-teaching vocabulary); imitate amazing texts; and practice inferencing, summarizing, and responding – using students’ own writing! What does this mean? STAAR is a walk in the park. And reading and writing are fun again.

Do your students struggle with revising and editing? Do they insist poetry is a foreign language? In this session we’ll explore and model short active strategies and activities that generate movement, boost motivation, increase engagement, and result in greater student achievement. Your students will have a greater understanding of how grammar works, and why poetry matters – for and beyond STAAR.