This professional learning event will highlight the resource Story Champs. Story Champs is a multi-tiered language intervention curriculum that helps educators and clinician promote academic language of diverse students. Story Champs is a semi-manualized program with explicit teaching procedures, but it is also extremely flexible to allow for sensible differentiation. Although the primary focus of Story Champs is on the development of a stong oral language foundation through storytelling, it also promotes other aspects of academic language that are essential for school success through information retelling, vocabulary learning and writing. |