Presenter: Julie Sealine

This is a fast-paced, hands-on, activity-based professional development workshop where participants learn strategies that struggling readers can immediately apply to practice what good readers do to work through a text. This workshop will provide tools that can help teachers build strong literacy foundations to remediate decoding issues for upper elementary students.

Educators will leave our workshops with:

·         An understanding of why students struggle with decoding and the impact this has on comprehension

·         Tools and background knowledge needed to effectively diagnose decoding issues in students of all ages

·         Resources needed to group students for instruction in ways that will yield the greatest improvements in the shortest amount of time

·         Functional teaching strategies to provide effective, age and grade-appropriate decoding instruction