Effective Intervention for Struggling Readers: Designing Tier 2 and 3 Supports
Grades K-5
Tuesday, 09 October 2018
October 09
October 09, 2018
Registration is CLOSED because the conference is full.
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Many schools use commercial programs for reading intervention which do not align neatly with their students' assessed needs nor can they be coordinated easily with Tier 1 instruction. This session will examine research-based practices for reading intervention, enabling participants to recognize the warning signs for reading difficulties and to practice interactive activities that can be applied in 1:1 or in small-groups (1:3 ratios) in the K-5 regular classroom or used by Reading Specialists in a building. Activities will focus on ways to support students with decoding, self-monitoring, and repairing mistakes that may impair comprehension. Structured, explicit techniques for building word identification, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary will be examined, and participants will leave with a “toolbag” of specific strategies and practical activities and ideas to promote word attack skills, to build sight word vocabularies, and to teach word reading strategies to struggling learners. Participants will be asked to choose at least one strategy or activity which is shared during the training and try it out with their own students. A follow-up Zoom session will be offered, in which participants can provide feedback on what they tried - their successes and any obstacles they faced - and ask follow-up questions about implementing these strategies and activities in their own classrooms.
K-5 Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Special Education Teachers
Conference runs from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Registration and breakfast begin at 8:00 a.m.
Lunch will be served at noon.
Free parking and free internet access will be provided.
All registered participants will receive an email with event details in the week before the conference is held.
The conference fee is $149 for each participant who is member of a school division which is a member of VaSCL.
The registration fee for participants from Non-Member school divisions is $199.
Registration fees include breakfast and lunch, as well as parking and internet access.
The registration deadline is Friday, September 28, 2018.
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Once you have submitted the registration, the person or people whom you have designated to receive a confirmation email should see that email (with registration information included) within 24 hours.
Pre-Payment is not required for participation.
After the conference has been held, an invoice will be emailed to the person identified in Billing Information on the Conference Registration Form for each participant.
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