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We are so glad you are here! We chose Institute Day 2025 breakout sessions based on your feedback from last year: more content-specific and grade-level-specific sessions as well as bringing back a keynote speaker.

Registration will open on Monday, January 6th, 2025 at 6:00AM CST.

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Picture Books as Complex Text, Grades PreK-3
Friday February 28, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm CST
Breakout Room 4
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In this book-rich session, participants will experience the advanced messages that illustrations send in picture books. We will explore using observation and visual literacy, the physicality and structures of children’s picture books and the impact these structures support instructional practice and intriguing read alouds. We will take a purposeful, productive and thoughtful adventure in picture books to better understand the advanced comprehension implications illustrations convey that words may not reveal to the reader. This session supports a myriad of ELA Standards.
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Laura Beltchenko

Illinois Reading Council
Laura Beltchenko has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, teacher and coordinator of gifted programs, and an associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction in a suburban K-12 school district. She is currently the Chair of the Illinois State Board of Education Advisory... Read More →
Friday February 28, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm CST
Breakout Room 4 1405 N 5th Ave, St. Charles, IL 60174
  Literacy

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