Embracing Literacy 2025 Events

Purpose: 

• to equip educators with the knowledge and tools to engage students in authentic disciplinary inquiry with curated text sets that promote reading comprehension.

Goals: 

• Describe the ways in which authentic inquiry with curated text sets promotes reading comprehension
• Identify the key elements of curating text sets for inquiry in diverse disciplines.

• Model and share a variety of protocols proven to support text engagement that promotes reading comprehension.

Outcomes: 

• Brainstorm curated text set and text engagement strategies to support an authentic inquiry that would be appropriate for your context.
• Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in curated text sets.
• Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in authentic inquiry in your context. 

Part 1:  In this hands-on session, teachers will explore proven strategies to plan authentic disciplinary inquiry with curated text sets that promote reading comprehension. Authentic inquiry is essential for all students, as it is proven to develop critical thinking and language skills that are requirements in the classroom and in life. Investigating authentic disciplinary concepts through text sets supports growth in both fluency and comprehension, encourages increasing levels of reading stamina, and increases both motivation to tackle and engagement with stretch text. In this session we will unpack the strengths and challenges of curating useful text sets and planning authentic inquiry as we scrutinize effective strategies to help our students benefit from these inquiries to amplify their understanding of important disciplinary concepts. 

Part II:  Cami Kostreva will join Stephany for the follow-up to this session. They will host Round-Table Discussions of core and elective teacher lessons from Cody Middle School, Cody High School and Lander High School. The lessons demonstrate how literacy instruction and support have been embedded into authentic inquiry in different disciplines. These lessons highlight targeted vocabulary instruction, text-based student-to-student discussion, and purposeful engagement with curated text-sets.