There is a wide variety of tools to assess fluency, from word-level automaticity tests to silent reading measures. However, choosing the right assessment is crucial. This on-demand webinar equips you to evaluate reading fluency assessments, make informed decisions, and compare assessment types.
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Spelling Rules Interactive Webinar
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.
Free! Vermont Literacy Leadership Live Webinar Series
This free three-part live webinar series is specifically designed for superintendents, curriculum directors, special education directors, principals, and literacy coaches in their efforts to lead their districts and schools in implementing new reading legislation.
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.
Language Comprehension Webinar Series
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.
