Reading Fluency: Why is it important, current research, best practices, assessments used/ More than just speed reading and assessments
Learners will look at a definition of reading fluency, types of informal and formal assessments, current research, best practices then apply this to authentic practice in a learner profile to offer a prescriptive approach to working on reading fluency with a student. Participants will also develop a solid understanding of the implications and need for progress monitoring with oral reading fluency. Reading Skills and Comprehension using Guided Readings Marie Clay’s work in developing the methodology of guided reading shows how by utilizing four blocks of literacy reading skills can be developed and augmented to support stronger and more positive student outcomes in decoding as well as comprehension. |
Reading Screeners and Developmental Spelling Inventories: An Overview
Using reading screeners and spelling inventories diagnostically to support literacy instruction This workshop will provide an overview of individually administered reading screeners such as DIBELS, PALS, the Really Great Reading Survey, and the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 to gain an understanding of their purpose, uses, and diagnostic value in working with students. Attendees will also be provided with an overview of spelling inventories and their role in looking at literacy skills. In addition, time will be allotted to practice using the assessments and look at a case study to identity a student’s strengths and weaknesses. Dyslexia: What is it, how do we remediate? Research, best practices, and application in working with students This workshop provides a working definition of dyslexia, common characteristics, ways to assess, current research, and best practices that can be applied to work with students. Learners will be provided with a student profile and develop an action plan for remediating key areas for their student and methods, practices, instruction that their student would benefit from through structured, systematic, and multisensory instruction. |
Reading/Writing Across Content Areas: Using Project Based Learning to Support Strong Literacy Outcomes
Price per day per participant: $150 2-3 day workshops Reading and writing across subject areas develops a shared understanding and development of skills/concepts in literacy that ultimately supports stronger, more positive outcomes for students. Using ideas from literature circles, guided reading, and writing techniques that support the different genres of writing in content areas. This workshop will also examine project based learning and how it help support student learning within this integrated approach to teaching. Work will encompass understanding the types of writing we use and how these work within different disciplines. Understanding text structure and its need in the classroom to support both reading and writing will be examined by exploring signal words and patterns of organization (cause/effect, time order, comparison/contrast, examples). Through this approach this workshop focuses on supporting students in becoming more effective readers and writers by using key interests and current topics in the world to stimulate thinking. . |
Encoding/Spelling : Using spelling rules and generalizations in teaching students with learning disabilities
What is it, how do we remediate? Research, best practices, and application in working with students This workshop provides a working definition of encoding, common patterns and areas of weakness in student profiles, ways to assess, current research, and best practices that can be applied to work with students. Learners will be provided with a student profile and develop an action plan for remediating key areas for their student and methods, practices, instruction that their student would benefit from. Advanced Phonology and Morphology This workshop requires some prior course work with Orton Gillingham and takes an in depth look at vowel teams, diphthongs, prefixes, affixes, and suffixes. Lessons will be modeled and developed within the context of the workshop. |
Framing Your Thoughts: A Visual Approach to Sentences
In this workshop participants will use Written Expression: Framing Your Thoughts to teach grammar and sentence structure to students using an explicit, cumulative, systematic , and concrete approach. This approach builds sentences through the use of visuals and manipulatives that focus on the function of key parts of speech and the building of compound and complex sentences. |
Visualizing and Verbalizing to Build Reading Comprehension
This workshop utilizes an approach in Visualizing and Verbalizing by Nanci Bell in supporting stronger and more positive outcomes for students in reading comprehension. Utilizing a visual approach with imagery, work builds from a picture level to sentences then paragraphs in understanding main ideas. This approach focuses on building concept imagery, which is often the root of many challenges in reading comprehension. This is because many children struggle with developing imagery and connecting the parts within a story. By building concept imagery through explicit training, children can improve their ability to grasp key concepts and comprehend what they read. |