This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET / 7:00 am - 9:00 am PT on April 3, 2027 for a total of 2 credit hours. 

On Site PD
On Site PD

For those who cannot attend the live webinar on April 3, a recording of the webinar will be available for 7 days following the live webinar, beginning the following Monday.
CE credit is only available for live attendance.

 

The “science of reading” often gets reduced to “phonics,” but there’s a lot of science that relates to reading comprehension as well. If we look at typical comprehension instruction through the lens of cognitive science, it becomes clear that we’ve unintentionally made reading and writing much harder than they need to be by separating them from each other and from content-area instruction. But cognitive science also tells us that a content-rich curriculum combined with explicit, manageable writing instruction can provide all the benefits of science-informed instruction and more. Join Natalie Wexler for this webinar, which will explain how breaking down the artificial walls separating reading, writing, and learning can enable all students to reach their full potential.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:
Explain why reading comprehension depends more on knowledge than skills
Adopt teaching methods that enable students to read and write at higher levels
Identify an effective knowledge-building curriculum and ways to overcome obstacles to effective curriculum implementation

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

K-12 Classroom Teachers
Instructional Coaches
Educational Administrators
Education Policymakers
Parents

Natalie L. Wexler, JD

Natalie Wexler is an education writer who has spoken before a wide range of audiences in the U.S. and elsewhere, focusing on literacy, cognitive science, and fairness. She is the author of Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning and The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—And How to Fix It, and the co-author of The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades. She blogs at her free Substack newsletter, Minding the Gap, and is the host of Season One of the Knowledge Matters Podcast (“Reading Comprehension Revisited”) and a co-host of Season Three(“Literacy and the Science of Learning”). She holds a BA from Harvard College, an MA in history from the University of Sussex, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

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