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Our Stride Ahead manual is designed to improve fluency and comprehension. It is aimed at those students who have the basic decoding skills in place but still find reading to be a laborious process and have difficulty understanding the meaning of written text. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gJ59pyuG

You probably know that mastering sentence structure is key to improving reading comprehension. While many educators understand the challenges with syntax, you might not know that Voyager Sopris Learning® offers awesome solutions like LANGUAGE! Live®. This structured approach helps students in grades 5–12 build their skills to process and produce academic language at the word, sentence, and passage levels. Want to learn more? Check out this blog post by Dr. Louisa Moats for insights and solutions. https://bit.ly/3yQFDzR

Mastering the Main Idea in LSAT Reading Comprehension https://bit.ly/3Arb3xD

Candidate: The Science of Reading: Teaching Your Kids How to Read with Elise Trudel Cedeñno Is your child struggling to learn how to read? Do they have trouble sounding out words, or understanding the meaning of new words? Do you struggle to explain why "one" begins with an o, and not a w? Then come learn more about the Science of Reading! This introductory module will show you all about the Science of Reading, and why everyone should understand these fundamental linguistic principles throughout their reading journeys (not just kids!). We will discuss the history of the American Reading Wars and how they have impacted reading instruction, what happens in your brain as you learn to read, and how to use systematic, "building-block" approaches in your own home when reading with your little ones. If you're interested in the "why" and "how" of reading, then this module is for you! CANDIDATE: Vote by June 1 to see it run!  Monday/Wednesday at 8 pm ET beginning July 1 https://ow.ly/8i0U50RF4GM

Courtesy of NWEA 4 Simple Ways to Apply the Science of Reading to Your Classroom To build reading comprehension, kids may need support at different times in their journey. With the Lexile® Framework for Oral Reading, teachers have insight into what students need—and when—to successfully read grade-level text. https://lnkd.in/eWTKA3vA

A template for students to write their own "alternative" tales. Take a fairy tale, a fable, a folktale and give it a twist. See this fun example - https://lnkd.in/etbSGkEk

ALL Teachers should be Teacher of Reading! In this course module, you will learn all about the five components of reading and how they are interconnected. Learn about: -differences between Phonological and Phonemic Awareness -seven Phonemic Awareness skills -how to practice Phonemic Awareness with your students -how Phonemic Awareness builds skills in Phonics -elements of effective Phonics instruction -how to integrate Phonemic Awareness and Phonics through use of specific techniques and activities -how fluency affects comprehension -elements of fluency – rate, accuracy, prosody -how automaticity plays a key role in fluency -two techniques for helping students move beyond word-by-word reading -how to best assess fluency with your students -how vocabulary is related to decoding, fluency, and comprehension -how to choose the best words to teach -how to use morphology as a vocabulary tool -Do’s and Don’ts of effective vocabulary instruction -how Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, and Vocabulary all play roles in developing comprehension -how fluent vs. struggling readers differ in their comprehension needs -how types of teacher questions and teacher responses can affect comprehension development -eight essential comprehension strategies https://lnkd.in/gpZHgGT

Turn up the volume of reading to accelerate students' vocabulary growth and knowledge. Register here to learn what the research says: https://lnkd.in/e_rKz2eF

Join me today at the Accelerate Literacy Virtual Summit, for my talk on  "Move from Reading Instruction to Language-literacy Development." Learn how to provide delayed and disinterested readers with a broader language experience - from sounds to sentences - to accelerate progress and provide much needed motivation. Learn how to create lessons that have students reading, spelling and writing multisyllabic words, phrases and sentences from day one. If you missed Mark Seidenberg or Devin Kearns talk they are still available. Mark talked about the balance between explicit instruction and implicit learning - how to quickly reach "escape velocity" in reading and not aim to fly readers all the way to the moon. https://lnkd.in/djPYjbD8

Join us for The Science of Reading: Teaching Your Kids How to Read with Elise Trudel Cedeñno Is your child struggling to learn how to read? Do they have trouble sounding out words, or understanding the meaning of new words? Do you struggle to explain why "one" begins with an o, and not a w? Then come learn more about the Science of Reading! This introductory module will show you all about the Science of Reading, and why everyone should understand these fundamental linguistic principles throughout their reading journeys (not just kids!). We will discuss the history of the American Reading Wars and how they have impacted reading instruction, what happens in your brain as you learn to read, and how to use systematic, "building-block" approaches in your own home when reading with your little ones. If you're interested in the "why" and "how" of reading, then this module is for you! Monday/Wednesday at 8 pm ET beginning July 1 https://ow.ly/xzwe50RF4GN