Click HERE to explore our new WBSD7 Local Literacy Plan! This was spearheaded by Lesley Allan (CLSD Coordinator), Amber Heinen (CLSD Liaison), and collaborated on by our district literacy team. The plan is a requirement of the state CLSD grant and aligned to the state literacy plan.
Williston Basin School District's Strategic Priority # 2 is all about Literacy. This page is intended to be a one stop shop for both out staff and community to discover how we are being innovative with our literacy instruction, information about the Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant from the state, and information for our families on how to bring more literacy engagement into the home.
Click on any of the images below for more information
WBSD7 Local Literacy Plan
The North Dakota Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant brings the spotlight on literacy in a lot of different ways.
Click below to discover what the WBSD7 grant funds are being used for and some of the literacy initiatives we continue to implement and grow.
Click below to view the Fall 23 presentation on CLSD in the district.
Click to watch a video on our next steps with the ND CLSD (Comprehensive Literacy State Development) grant
Click below to visit our Early Learner Literacy page
Monthly Literacy Choice Board - Read and Create online!
Quarterly Literacy Newsletters for the WBSD7 families and community!
While out Media Centers are an awesome, curated collection of resources, scheduling can severly limit access to books. Students in elementary typically only see their media specialist once a week, in secondary is can be two or three times a month. Through the CLSD grant, teachers are encouraged to build thier own classroom libraries as a way to increase access to resources both for academic and pleasure reading. Click the picture above for more information.
Literacy Professional Development
New Teachers! Check out what literacy resources we have for you!
There are a lot of literacy topics in our Pop Up PD series! Click below to start your personalized professional development journey
Want to learn new writing strategies? Sign up with Amber for an SFL Genre Writing pilot.
Questions? Comments?
Please contact Lesley Allan, Media Director - Dr. Sheeresa Begay, Director of Innovation - Amber Heinen, District CLSD Liaison
Would you like to know more about the North Dakota Literacy Plan? Click here