What to Expect

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Join SEAL’s interactive professional learning series designed for educators leading TK–5 classrooms. Rooted in research and proven classroom practice, this experience provides the clarity, tools, and inspiration needed to strengthen literacy instruction across your school or district. The result is comprehensive literacy and language development designed from the start for California’s multilingual classrooms.

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Literacy is more than learning to read words. It is learning to make meaning with them.

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Educators will:

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• Strengthen foundational literacy through explicit, systematic instruction and meaningful application.
• Develop oral language, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and knowledge alongside foundational skills.
• Integrate literacy with science, social studies, and other content learning.
• Provide effective Integrated and Designated ELD.
• Leverage home languages and cross-language connections to support literacy and biliteracy.
• Use assessment and tiered supports to respond to reading difficulties, including dyslexia.

Why Schools Choose SEAL’s Literacy Series

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• Build the Foundations for Literacy
  Strengthen foundational skills while developing oral language, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and knowledge.
• Put Language at the Center
  Create meaningful opportunities for students to speak, listen, read, write, and make meaning throughout instruction.
• Leverage the Strengths of Multilingual Learners
  Build on home-language assets, cross-language connections, biliteracy, and Integrated and Designated ELD from the start.
• Build Literacy Through Knowledge
  Develop literacy skills through meaningful, grade-level learning in science, social studies, and other content areas.
• Turn Research Into Classroom Practice
  Engage in interactive professional learning that moves from modeling and collaboration to planning, application, and reflection.