Unlock the Power of Writing for Multilingual Learners
Two 2-Day Workshops | Elementary & Secondary Tracks
Join us for this dynamic 2-day workshop designed to spark powerful writing growth for multilingual learners! Using the Teaching and Learning Cycle, we’ll explore how writing instruction can do more than prepare students for academic success—it can empower them to share their voices, connect with others, and advocate for what matters most to them.
Designed for both elementary and secondary contexts, the workshops focus on how intentional, language-rich instruction empowers multilingual learners—not just to succeed in academic writing, but to use writing as a powerful tool to understand the world, express themselves, learn from one another, and advocate for what matters most.
Both workshops guide participants through a pedagogical approach that apprentices students into academic genres, showing how authentic, content-based writing tasks foster deep understanding of how language works in written form. Educators will leave with ready-to-use strategies that support multilingual learners in becoming confident, capable writers across disciplines.
Key Outcomes for All Participants:
- Build background knowledge so students can write with confidence.
- Use mentor texts to uncover the language of specific genres.
- Co-create writing with students as a scaffold for success.
- Guide students in applying language strategies independently.
- Foster reflection and revision to grow student voice and effectiveness.
Elementary Track: September 29th and 30th in Winston Salem:
- Explore writing instruction grounded in science content with applications across subjects.
- Learn how to build knowledge, analyze mentor texts, co-construct writing, and guide students’ independent practice.
- Engage students in reflection and revision cycles to strengthen writing skills and voice.
Secondary Track: October 2nd and 3rd in Bladen County:
- Centered on social studies writing, with connections to ELA and science.
- Focus on disciplinary genres that prepare students for secondary-level academic demands.
- Emphasis on building background knowledge, unpacking mentor texts, co-writing with students, and supporting independent application.
- Includes cycles of review and revision to refine student writing.
- Note: This workshop focuses on disciplinary writing and does not address foundational literacy for SIFE/SLIFE students.
Register to attend one of these sessions by completing this form. The ML/Title III team will contact you via email to confirm your reservation or inform you that you are on a waitlist. Please email ESLTitleIII@dpi.nc.gov with any questions.
New Resource: Academic Discourse Playbook
The NCDPI ELA Team is excited to announce the release of a new resource to support student discourse in the classroom K-12 and across content areas: The Academic Discourse Playbook!
Inside, find three recommendations to support student discussion and writing in response to text, content topics, etc. and enrich learning and comprehension. Embedded throughout are resources including sample anchor charts, note-catchers, and graphic organizers. All resources are provided in an editable template format so that educators can adapt and modify them as needed to suit the needs of their students.
The Discourse Playbook can be accessed via the Aligned Resources pages on the ELA Virtual Implementation Kit (VIK) and the Literacy Instruction Standards Toolkit (LIST). A printer-friendly PDF version is also now available!
Note: The Academic Discourse Playbook is intended to support the Comprehension: Discussion & Writing Component of the Literacy Instruction Standards (LIS). Consider incorporating its content into PLC conversations in the 25-26 SY to support alignment of instruction to the LIS.
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