Students’ reading skills are critically important for school and life-long success. For struggling students, reading difficulties compound over time and impact their ability to succeed academically and socially in areas that extend beyond reading. Fortunately, reading difficulties can be identified using meaningful assessments and addressed with targeted, evidence-based reading interventions, thereby changing a student’s trajectory from struggling to striving. Building content expertise in the development of early reading skills and addressing them through intervention is essential for any educator responsible for reading instruction.
This interactive, hands-on workshop will focus on effective reading instruction and how to utilize research-based tools (e.g., assessments, interventions) that can improve students’ skills to learn to read and read to learn. Attendees will learn: