Rooted in Reading, Growing in Writing: Teaching Literacy Outside

What happens when you combine curiosity, literacy, and the great outdoors? Magic. This session demonstrates how outdoor environments can spark rich literacy learning and how assessment can still be meaningful, visible, and manageable outside the classroom walls. Session Objectives: 1. Explore outdoor learning activities that effectively combine curiosity and the natural environment to spark rich literacy learning. 2. Develop practical strategies for making literacy assessment in an outdoor environment meaningful and visible to both students and teachers. 3. Implement strategies to ensure that collecting and documenting outdoor assessment data is manageable and not overwhelming.