Improving Reading for Older Students

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Course
4-12
Literacy
Price

Early bird- $99 per person, Regular pricing- $129 per person, Groups of 10+ receive 10% discount

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Registration Window Open: 9/24 – 11/1

Oct 21 - Dec 09

Self-guided

15 hours

Estimated time

Description

In this self-paced course, we will work on how to improve literacy outcomes for older students who are reading below grade level. Participants in this course will have the opportunity to learn the research behind literacy accelerators that can propel reading progress, consider how to support students in rebuilding their academic confidence, and gain practical skills for how to implement these ideas to support students in regular classroom settings.

Primary Audience: 4-12 Secondary Educators and all who support their work.

Course Goals

  • Learn the importance of Automatic Word Recognition and what skills are its prerequisites
  • Understand the role of improving reading fluency in improving skills and confidence
  • Think through how to accelerate vocabulary acquisition and knowledge gains for your older students
  • Understand the specific ways access to close reading can cement these gains
  • Understand writing, both as a tool to support reading and as a tool to build student understanding of themselves and the world

Pricing:

  • Early bird pricing ($99 per person with 10% discount for groups of 10+) expires 10/10 at 11:59pm.
  • Regular pricing ($129 per person with 10% discount for groups of 10+) kicks in on 10/11.

This Course Includes:

Additional Information About This Course

Q&A with the Course Creators: Meredith and David Liben (July 2021)

This recording is of an informal Q&A held with the course creators, David and Meredith Liben. They answered questions from course participants about the research underlying the course content and provided advice on implementation of course content.

Q&A with Course Creator, David Liben (December 2021)

This recording is of an informal Q&A held with one of the course creators, David Liben. He answered questions from past and current course participants about intervention programs, daily procedures that help with improving students’ reading ability, and data on students’ reading progress, among other topics. At the end, he shared a set of resources, including about a Humanities Accelerator course that can be piloted in the middle or high school years that is designed to address the challenge of time, student motivation, science of reading, building knowledge and vocabulary, and fluency.

Q&A with Course Creator, David Liben (March  2022)

This recording is of an informal Q&A held with course co-creator, David Liben. He answered questions that were submitted by IROS participants about the course content and provided advice on implementation of course content.

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Published August 5, 2024
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