The Science of Writing: Accelerate Overall Literacy Development via Writing

Join this fascinating, useful presentation as Dr. Leslie Laud shares the most powerful evidence-based practices for raising literacy outcomes—while emphasizing the role writing can play. As Dr. Laud calls on an abundance of current research, much of it just out in 2020-2021, she will help you understand its impact and how the research sheds new light on what works in explicit, Structured Literacy instruction. This webinar will present the latest evidence-based practices so you can best help your students get caught up following the gaps in instruction they may have experienced during the past year.

Attendees will learn:

• The latest advances in the science of writing
• The five keys of the science of writing
• The most promising practices you can use tomorrow
• About resources that can help you continue to grow as a writing teacher
• The overlap between reading and writing, and why writing can lift overall literacy outcomes