Educator LETRS Spotlight
With registration now open for Cohort 3 of the Kentucky Reading Academies LETRS Professional Learning, the Division of Early Literacy is highlighting educators who are currently participating to share the impact the program has had on their teaching and students’ learning.
Susan Bratcher, Intervention Teacher at Newton Parrish Elementary in Owensboro Independent Public Schools, participated in the LETRS for Educators professional learning opportunity.
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"This is my 25th year of teaching, and I can honestly say LETRS is one of the best professional development opportunities I have had in my teaching career. I would recommend this training to every teacher who impacts a child's ability to learn to read."
- Susan Bratcher, Intervention Teacher
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Don't miss out! Registration for the Kentucky Reading Academies: Cohort 3 of LETRS Professional Learning
Kentucky Reading Academies are for educators who teach reading or work with K-5 students in Kentucky public schools (e.g., general and special education teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and those who teach English Learners (EL) or in Title 1 schools).
Registration for Phase 3 of the Kentucky Reading Academies opened May 1, 2024 and will remain open through August 30, 2024.
LETRS for Educators Cohort 3 Registration: This course is recommended for K-5 teachers, interventionists, reading specialists and anyone providing reading instruction or intervention supports to early readers.
LETRS for Administrators Cohort 3 Registration: This course is recommended for district leaders, building administrators and instructional coaches.
Please NOTE: Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 participants will not need to register for Cohort 3, as they are already enrolled in the professional learning.
Find out more about the Kentucky Reading Academies on the Kentucky Reading Academies webpage.
For questions about the Kentucky Reading Academies, please email KDE Director of Early Literacy Christie Biggerstaff.
Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines may Support Teachers in Connecting Reading and Writing Instruction when Implementing HQIRs
Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines intends to show more precisely how to ensure opportunities for students to engage in discipline-specific literacies or learning that uses reading and writing skills specific to each field to teach content knowledge, demonstrate content knowledge and publish learning. Text-based writing grounds students in complex, grade-level texts, or “anything that communicates a message” (Interdisciplinary Literacy Practice 1), meaning that students engage with a wide range of multimodal texts across disciplines and grade levels.
This resource includes 40 text-based writing tasks that engage K-12 students in responding to a variety of texts as disciplinary experts do. Use Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines to support the implementation of existing High-Quality Instructional Resources (HQIRs). The tasks should not replace adopted HQIR but should serve to supplement instruction towards the full depth and rigor of the Kentucky Academic Standards.
See the Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines webpage for samples in:
- Writing to Learn,
- Writing to Demonstrate Learning and
- Writing for Publication.
Samples are available for:
- Reading and writing,
- Mathematics,
- Social studies,
- Science and
- Visual/performing arts.
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