| Gretchen Courtney & Associates provides professional and literacy development in these areas: |
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| Reading Presentations and Professional Development |
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| Comprehension Strategy Instruction |
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Developing student understanding of the continuum of skills associated with each comprehension strategy, predicting, summarizing, connecting, questioning, inferring and imaging |
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| Vocabulary Development |
| Building school-wide vocabulary programs to support the six research-based goals for vocabulary instruction |
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| Extended Response to Reading |
Designing curriculum and instruction to develop student expertise in composing written responses to reading prompts |
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| Developing Balanced Reading Curriculum and Instruction |
| Planning and implementing instructional delivery models that comply with state and federal guidelines while promoting student learning |
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| Supporting and Promoting Fluency |
Developing fluency instruction to improve student achievement in all areas of literacy |
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| Functional Literacy for All Students |
| Creating lessons and instructional strategies to support text selections promoting functional literacy |
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| Reading Across the Content Areas |
| Reading instruction that teachers can seamlessly implement—comprehension instruction that supports learning and reading in the content areas |
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| Text Selection to Support Comprehension Instruction |
| Learning and using the best texts available from trade and school publishers to enhance all aspects of balanced literacy |
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| Writing Presentations and Professional Development |
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| Curricula to Support Multiple Genres |
| Creating lessons, instruction, and materials supporting expository, persuasive, narrative, poetry, and essay, with concentration on focus, organization, elaboration, support, and voice |
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| Writing Across the Content Areas |
| How to connect state standards and assessment guidelines to content area instruction while providing students and teachers with the best strategies, tools, and methods for developing effective writing techniques. |
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| Grammar, Mechanics and Spelling |
| Developing curriculum frameworks that support key editing skills in the natural, authentic context of daily assignments and lessons |
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| Frameworks for Writing Instruction |
| How to develop curriculum guidelines that correlate lessons and activities to state standards and assessment guidelines while scaffolding consistent writing instruction through all grade levels. |
