Middle Pathway Workshop: Concept-Based Literacy: Creating Multiple Pathways to Ignite Understanding and Transfer

How can concepts be leveraged to promote access, student choice, personal relevance, and transfer in a literacy classroom? Inductive inquiry-based learning experiences in a literacy classroom allow students to be actively engaged in the construction of meaning through the exploration of rich text examples across a range of genres. In this workshop, you will learn how to weave together current literacy practices with inductive inquiry to deliberately leverage students’ conceptual understanding of what it takes to be a capable reader, writer, speaker, listener, and viewer. See why concept-based literacy is one of the keys to designing dynamic learning experiences in which authentic contexts and thinking become the catalyst to mastering literacy skills.