Virtual Session January 22, 2025

Target Audience: Grades 4-9 Adolescent Grades Interventionists, Special Educators, Classroom Educators, MTSS, EST and Data Teams (a good follow-up for participants from last year’s Adolescent Series)

In this virtual session, participants will explore best practices for supporting comprehension and learning from texts across all Tier 1 instruction, including in science, history, and language arts. Participants will learn how to create quad text sets and how to scaffold learning in those texts. Participants will learn how to analyze a text for the challenges it presents and then scaffold those challenges as well as learn how to use writing as a mode for learning from texts across all content areas.

Hours: 8:30 am – 12 pm

Location: Virtual Zoom link

Cost: CVEDC Member: $180 Non-member: $225

Includes her NEW book: Lupo, Reynolds, Hardigree: Tackling Tough Texts A Research-Based Guide to Scaffolding Learning in Grades 6-12

The text will be drop shipped to you as soon as it is available after November 20

Dr. Sarah Lupo is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at James Madison University. She has extensive teaching experience as an ESL teacher, English teacher, reading specialist, and literacy coach in grades K-12 in Washington D.C., Istanbul, Turkey, Phoenix, AZ, and Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Lupo has published dozens of articles and chapters in publications such as Reading Research Quarterly, Reading Teacher, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Literacy Today and recently published a book entitled Teaching Disciplinary Literacy in Grades K-6: Infusing Content with Reading, Writing, and Language (Routledge, 2021). Her research focuses on exploring the influence of various aspects of text complexity on readers’ comprehension, such as knowledge, and how instruction can be differentiated to support all readers’ understanding of challenging texts across the content areas. Her work strives to position all learners’ as capable and bringing cultural and linguistic assets to the reading experience. Dr. Lupo strives to put theory into practice to find practical ways teachers can improve comprehension for K-12 students in order to enhance literacy instruction for all students, especially those from nondominant backgrounds.

Universal Instruction for Adolescent Literacy: Instructional Routines and Classroom-Based Adjustments with Dr. Sarah Lupo