Michigan Learning Channel Update

MAISA's partnership with Michigan Learning Channel (MLC) helps to bring the Literacy Essentials to life through the MLC/PBS literacy broadcast series, Read, Write, ROAR!

Read more about the Literacy Essentials here!

Beginning on October 1, 2025, the Project Director position for MAISA will no longer be funded, however in-kind partnership between Michigan Learning Channel and MAISA will remain.

If you have any questions about this content related to programming for the Michigan Learning Channel, please contact Matt Hamilton, Program Director for MLC (mhamilton@detroitpbs.org).

If you have any questions about this content related to Literacy Essentials, please contact Michelle Goaley, MAISA Project Director of Early Literacy Professional Learning (mgoaley@gomaisa.org)

To reach former Project Director, Annie Spear, you can email anniespear@gmail.com.

The example below shows how the new website creates an easy-to-use and quick access to high-quality content offered by the Michigan Learning Channel, such as the flagship show, "Read, Write, ROAR!" Below is an example using Grade 3 from the show so you can see how the information is laid out. This is accessible in this way across PreK to Grade 5.

This month we offer you:

1. 💻NEW no-cost, live professional learning module on EduPaths! Focus on writing!

2. 👪"Read, Write, ROAR!" Home Connections for educators and Families

3. 🏫BAack-to-School Teacher Toolkit!

4. ⭐ISD Highlight Oakland Schools/Pontiac School District!

5. ✅R Grades 4-5 Read, Write, ROAR! Series is COMPLETE!

6. 📝Highlight MiREAD: Use this MAISA asset and Read, Write, ROAR! for at-home reading plans

7. 📚Michigan Reading Association Conference Fall Conference featuring Michigan Learning Channel

This is the third course in our Read, Write, ROAR! Series. It will highlight research-supported practices that help children learn about the writing process in different genres. While the content focus of this course is grounded in the K to 3 Literacy Essentials, we offer some learning extensions for you to choose if you would like to gather resources and practical strategies for Grades 4-5 instruction. These lessons are aligned with different bullets of Essential Instructional Practices 1, 4, and 6. (Click here to enroll!)

NOTE: SCECHs are pending approval, but if you enroll and take the course now, you can get the credit once it is approved.

Feedback from educators is telling us these modules are supporting them to learn more about the Literacy Essentials, "Read, Write, ROAR!" and ways to use these lessons in their classrooms!

Take a FREE EduPaths course to learn more!

We have new RWR Home Connections cards that were designed with the following in mind:

1. ACCESS: These offer quick access to specific types of Read, Write, ROAR! lessons for educators families to navigate to content quickly

2. RESEARCH: These cards highlight research-supported practices aligned to the Literacy Essentials

3. FLEXIBILITY: Choose the ones you want for the needs of the child you are using them for

The NEW and hot-off-the-presses Teacher Guide for Read, Write, ROAR! Home Connections

outlines the following available resources and more!

• Prekindergarten RWR Home Connections card
  
• Letter Heroes RWR Home Connections card (Kindergarten for Tier 2/3 for above K)
  
• Mystery Word RWR Home Connections card (Grades 1-3 Tier 1 or for Tier 2)
  
• Multisyllabic Word Reading RWR Home Connections card (Grades 4-5 or extension for Grades 2-3)
  
• InPACT for Learning and Grades 4-5 RWR information
  

Thank you, Ms. Felisha Geeter and Dr. Ashelin Currie, for extending an invitation for me to join you in Pontiac! This event enabled us to share the wealth of no-cost resources that MLC has to offer and reach educators serving PreK to Grade 12. Educators were enthusiastic and were excited to learn about the literacy supports offered through "Read, Write, ROAR!" and also shared excited for series like On Location! Click the photo on the right to check out what On Location has to offer!

Production for Read, Write, ROAR! Upper Elementary (Grades 4-5) is complete. Segments and organization of the new content is ongoing. Keep checking back to find the latest!

• Find the latest
• Michigan Learning Channel's page
• Full episodes on PBS (26:46 minutes)
• YouTube Playlist - now with 124 segments! (each segment ranges from 2:00 - 6.5 minutes)

Read, Write, ROAR! segments are now available in MiStrategyBank for use in MiRead. To add these strategies to MiRead reading improvement plans, please reach out to your local MiStrategyBank administrator.

Want to learn more about MiREAD? Check out the landing page: https://www.gomaisa.org/projects/miread/

You can still add Read, Write, ROAR! in reading improvement plans using links and QR codes.

Find QR codes in Activity Guides (examples below) and check out YouTube Playlists here.

As a reminder, there's a Read, Write, ROAR! series for Preschool! Check out this past presentation, ROARing with Prekindergarten on MLC! to learn more!

📣Join us at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in October for the Michigan Reading Association Fall Conference. Annie Spear will literacy development and highlighting instructional practices for research-supported writing instruction to build the reading brain and overview how you can access no-cost resources from Michigan Learning Channel that enable educators to move to implementation for in-school and at-home learning right away.

BONUS: Attendees receive admittance and tour the DIA as part of their registration!🤩

Register here: https://lnkd.in/gG3zG_dw

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