In this 90-minute session, participants will learn the skills students need to become skilled readers, including practical ways to implement these evidence-based methods in the classroom. 

This session is ideal for teachers of K-2 students and any teacher with struggling readers in their classroom. Parents can also benefit by learning literacy-based terminology and strategies for support at home.

 

 

If a child is struggling with phonics, is the issue really phonics - or do we need to go back and look at their phonemic awareness skills? If a student can't comprehend, is it truly a comprehension issue, or do they struggle with word recognition or vocabulary? This session looks deeply at how to use assessment to get to the root cause of our readers' struggles to be able to provide them with targeted instruction that helps them soar!

We'll also talk about effective small grouping, as well as how to support our secondary students. 

his session is ideal for parents, teachers, administrators, tutors, and anyone who wants to give students the most effective support in their literacy acquisition.

 

 

 

Do your children struggle to transfer their reading skills into their writing? As a teacher, do you struggle to fit writing lessons into an already-packed literacy block? Parents, do you struggle to get your child to sit down and start an essay or writing piece? In this session, we'll explore the three main skills that are required for students to be effective writers, as well as how to develop these skills in an already full day (both in school and at home!)

 

 

Actively teaching children how to generate questions provides them with important tools to guide their thinking as they read. This workshop will provide a research-based context for instruction in question generating and present robust strategies, including ReQuest, 5Ws,  Question Answer Relationships, and others that can easily be incorporated in the literacy block, in tutoring, in content area instruction, as well as at home.

 

 

This workshop will cover the science of fluency building and its importance in successful reading development, covering instructional strategies for fluency building based on the method of repeated readings, ways to bring fluency building to the classroom, tutorial setting and beyond. We will describe the research, assessment of fluency, and a range of "how-to" instructional strategies for incorporating this critical area of reading into daily instruction. 

 

 

This workshop will provide the research rationale for instruction in this important pillar, as well as developmental expectations, assessment tools, and a range of instructional strategies for young students. 

 

This workshop will provide a context for instruction in question generating and present powerful strategies including ReQuest, 5Ws, Question Answer Relationships, and others that can easily be incorporated in the literacy block as well as content area instruction.

 

Vocabulary is so closely tied to success in comprehension. This workshop will present a wide range of evidence-based strategies for supporting growth in and retention of vocabulary and background knowledge, with a focus on what the research says and ways to make effective strategies engaging for our students. 

 

This workshop will cover the science of fluency building, strategies for fluency building (all based on the method of repeated readings); bring fluency to the classroom and beyond. We will also describe the research, assessment of fluency, and a range of "how-to" instructional strategies for incorporating this critical area of reading into daily instruction.