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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🔔</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Last call to enroll for WIDA’s Facilitated Webinar,
<i>Expanding Reading Instruction with Multilingual Learners<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This workshop takes place over 2 days: October 6
<u>and</u> October 20, 3-4:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Contact hours available from WIDA upon completion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Intended Audience: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This virtual workshop is designed for any educator interested in supporting reading for multilingual learners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Description: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This series of two webinars and online resources provides ideas for expanding reading instruction to make it more effective for multilingual learners.
Participants will learn ways to build on and expand current approaches to teaching reading and to engage multilingual learners in the interactions that support reading development. Learning outcomes include: Name important qualities of expansive reading instruction
for multilingual learners Identify key information about how reading develops for multilingual learners Identify one way to shift reading instruction to be more expansive and inclusive for multilingual learners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">📌</span><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Sign up here:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Enrollment closes today, 9/29.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://www.maine.gov/doe/calendar#calendar-6c6f22e1-033b-47cd-8ea3-0906acf8c9e4-event-a528ff17-8360-47ed-a9c6-99b219c994df">Event Calendar | Department of Education</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b>Jane Armstrong (she,her,hers)<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) State Specialist <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Office of Teaching and Learning<br>
Maine Department of Education <br>
23 State House Station <br>
Augusta, Maine 04333-0023 <br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:jane.armstrong@maine.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">jane.armstrong@maine.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b>Phone:</b> 207-446-3294 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.maine.gov/doe" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">Maine DOE</span></a> |
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MaineDepartmentofEducation1/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">Facebook</span></a> |
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<a href="https://mainedoenews.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">Maine DOE Newsroom</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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