Not every student is ready to read to learn by the fourth grade. In this course, you will have the opportunity to dive into those areas of adolescent literacy that are most relevant to supporting the success of your adolescent students. Additionally, each of the three parts includes practical suggestions for better understanding and addressing the needs of older struggling readers.
Online (asynchronous)
Spelling Rules Interactive Webinar: From the Basics to the Big Three
Are you curious about why and how we spell certain words in our English language? Would you like to feel more confident in answering students’ questions and explicitly teaching spelling rules to students? This asynchronous webinar will give you the knowledge and confidence to help your students master four short vowel spelling patterns and three suffix-adding rules.
What About Writing? Webinar Series
This asynchronous, self-paced webinar series helps educators build a thorough understanding of the science of writing and how to implement evidence-based techniques and activities into their writing instruction. This series focuses on the most current research on writing, theoretical models that underpin updated understandings of the factors that enable skilled writing, and best practices for writing instruction.
Foundations of Reading Webinar Series
What is Structured Literacy? In this asynchronous, self-paced interactive webinar series, you will learn the basics of structured literacy, with an emphasis on foundational word recognition skills. After completion of this training you will understand: what the ‘Science of Reading’ refers to, foundational frameworks, the difference between structured literacy and less effective instructional practices, and ways to shift your instruction to better align with what research tells us about how students learn to read.
Structured Literacy Series: Focus on Language Comprehension
This five-part asynchronous, self-paced interactive webinar series goes beyond basic word recognition skills and addresses all that goes into reading comprehension, including syntax, sentence comprehension, and grammar; vocabulary; fluency; and morphology and etymology.
Reading Comprehension: What, Why, and How
The Science of Reading does include comprehension! Explore what reading comprehension is, why it matters, and how to incorporate instructional practices based in the Science of Reading to support comprehension.