Investment: $299

Let’s talk TIME. In international schools, minutes are scarce. With all these shifts in “best practice literacy”, how can we reallocate our minutes for impact? Join us for a SUPER practical session on how to schedule a day, a week, a unit for what matters most for K-2 readers and writers. 

In this course, we’ll explore

  • what we might keep, shed or evolve in our early literacy practices
  • new ways to schedule a day, a week, a unit based on the science of reading & writing
  • leveraging tools and texts for maximum growth
  • Highly effective approaches that meet the varied needs of our learners, all with limited minutes in mind! 
  • A global field trip of EFFICIENCY - examples of high impact schedules that are working in international schools


You’ll leave with practical sample schedules, resources galore, and ways to customize plans for your context. 

Course curriculum

    1. Course Information

    1. Padlet

    1. Introduction and Course Goals

    2. What is the Science of Reading?

    3. Scarborough’s Reading Rope: What are the Sub-strands of Word Recognition?

    4. Scarborough’s Reading Rope: What are the sub-strands of Language Comprehension?

    5. The Writing Rope: What are the sub-strands of skilled writing?

    6. What does the research say about what matters most for instruction?

    7. What Matters Most for Phonics Instruction? What learning experiences might bring phonological awareness ‘to life’ in your classroom?

    8. What does the research say about explicit instruction? How might we plan for explicit instruction during Shared Reading and Read Aloud?

    1. What high-leverage explicit instruction practices might we use to develop students’ writing skills?

    2. How might we plan for small group instruction?

    3. How might we design targeted and purposeful literacy centers?

    4. Planning for Purposeful Literacy Centers: Reading connected texts, fluency, language structure practice and independent reading

    5. Scheduling: What might this mean for how we spend our minutes?

    6. How might we approach unit planning?

    1. How might we teach high frequency words?

    2. How might we continue to support play-based learning?

    3. What might handwriting instruction look like? Where might it ‘live’ within our literacy blocks?

    1. Complete this short survey and get your course completion certificate!

About this course

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  • 20 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

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Course Facilitators

Molly Ball

Molly Ball has worked as an IB PYP classroom teacher, curriculum developer, and literacy coach in the United States, Korea, and Singapore. She has led teachers in curriculum development with a specific focus on unpacking standards and benchmarks to create tailored reading and writing units that align with and/or enhance units of inquiry. Molly is passionate about emergent and foundational literacy and the many ways we can amplify student choice and agency through play and inquiry, as well as, transfer learning to support reading, writing and other subject areas. She has extensive experience in Reading and Writing workshop, Word Study, Student-Centered Coaching and in supporting multilingual learners. Molly is always eager to learn about each school's unique context, needs and demographic of learners and loves to collaborate with educators around the world. Currently, Molly is a Literacy Coach at Stamford American International School in Singapore.

Angela Shelton

Angela is an experienced international educator, teacher leader and science of reading enthusiast. With over twenty years of experience in the classroom, Angela has developed a deep understanding of how students learn and what it takes to help them succeed. As a literacy teacher, Angela is committed to teaching children how to read and write in a way that is engaging and effective. She is passionate about structured literacy instruction and she is constantly seeking out new strategies and techniques to help her students master the important foundational skills. Angela has taught in the United States, Brazil, and the UAE. Her experience working with diverse groups of learners has given her a deep appreciation for the power of education to transform lives and communities. Angela is currently a grade 1 teacher and team leader in Abu Dhabi.