Voyager Sopris Learning EDVIEW360 Podcast Series

Interested in improving your literacy teaching and discovering creative new ways to get students excited about writing? Join teacher and science of reading advocate Hannah Irion-Frake for this applicable webinar! Our presenter will explore the reading-writing connection and will share ways you can appropriately increase the amount of writing students do in your classroom. The presentation will span the strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope and will include strategies for writing related to both word recognition and language comprehension.

We hope you’ll join us as Irion-Frake illustrates how writing can strengthen reading instruction. You’ll learn:

• How opportunities for writing can strengthen students’ reading development
• Classroom-friendly strategies to increase opportunities for students to write
• Science of reading best practices for classroom implementation

Reading failure can be prevented in almost every learner.

In this webinar, Dr. Ruth Kaminski, co-author of Acadience Reading K-6 (formerly known as DIBELS) will discuss what we know about the prevention of reading failure. She will share practical advice about methods to prevent reading failure, all of which are grounded in the science of reading, with an emphasis on the role of assessment.

As a result of participation in this webinar, attendees will:

1. Become familiar with a prevention-oriented model of reading failure
2. Learn practical strategies for preventing reading failure
3. Understand the critical role of assessment in the prevention of reading difficulties.
    

Universal screening is an essential element of schoolwide literacy models for implementing the science of reading and aligning it to curriculum. Screening with Acadience® Reading K–6 efficiently indicates skill level on the essential early literacy skills—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and reading comprehension. Giving the assessment is only the first step. Educators need to know how to interpret the data and link assessment to curriculum and instruction that improve reading performance. 

In this useful session, participants will see examples of the common patterns of risk captured by Acadience Reading K–6 as displayed in the Acadience® Learning Online platform. Our presenters will share how the assessment results can lead to targeted lessons within the Voyager Passport® program. Examples of specific lessons will illustrate the instruction needed by students with each risk pattern.

Attendees will learn:

1. The features of Acadience Reading K–6 as a universal screening assessment that indicates the five essential components of reading
2. Which skills to target for science of reading-based instruction as displayed in the Acadience Learning Online platform
3. The common patterns of data for students who are at risk of reading failure
4. Targeted lessons within Voyager Passport that meet the needs of at-risk students
5. How to pair assessment results with specific lessons and activities within Voyager Passport

If you have intermediate and secondary students who are still not reading accurately and fluently with good comprehension, this useful presentation is a hands-on learning experience just for you.

Join us for this thorough webinar when Dr. Anita Archer will review the major recommendations of the Educator’s Practice Guide recently released by the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

The guide’s recommendations include:

1. Building students’ decoding skills so they can read complex multisyllabic words
2. Providing purposeful fluency-building activities
3. Utilizing several research-validated comprehension practices

Join us as Dr. Archer discusses the recommendations and helps you gain insight into the research about reading intervention for older struggling readers.