This interactive course focuses on issues related to the assessment of reading, spelling, and writing—including identifying early signs of trouble, diagnosing dyslexia and dysgraphia, and communicating test results to parents and other educators.
Assessment & Evaluation
Testing 101: The Basics
Sign up for this workshop to get a refresher on the basics of assessment, progress monitoring, and standardized norm referenced testing. Submit your questions ahead of time or bring them to the workshop to get them answered by Dr. Melissa Farrall!
How to Measure Writing Progress
How do we measure student progress in written expression as a foundation for classroom instruction? This workshop will focus on different ways to measure progress in writing. We will compare both formal and informal assessment, and what different types of tests contribute to our knowledge of students. We will discuss what we are measuring, what we are learning, and how we link these results to effective instructional practices.
Orthographic Processing: What Is It Really?
This interactive workshop will focus on the orthographic processor: what it is, how it develops, and what it means for instruction. We will look at the reading brain, and the importance of speech sound awareness as a foundation for word recognition fluency, the development of the orthographic lexicon (sight word vocabulary), and more.
Reading Comprehension and Executive Functioning
Teaching reading is rocket science! What are the inner workings of the mind, and how do they enable reading comprehension? Participants will learn about the processes that comprise executive function, how they are measured, and how they relate to reading comprehension and instruction.
IEP Goal Writing Aligned to the Science of Reading
In this interactive two-part workshop series, you will learn how to construct IEP goals and objectives aligned to the Science of Reading. You’ll participate in a case study and create your own goals/objectives based off of your current students. You’ll come away with a deeper level of understanding and practical strategies, methods, and tools that can be used when writing goals and objectives.
