Comprehension Strategies That Help Your Struggling Students Be More Successful Readers, Grades 2-5 - PDKIT
Linda Hoyt, demonstrates outstanding comprehension strategies with groups of children, grades 2-5. The strategies are helpful to all readers, but they are especially useful to readers who struggle to construct meaning from text.
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Current, Best Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Making Connections, Summarizing and Questioning , Grades K-2 - PDKIT
In this comprehensive PD Resource Kit, exemplary teachers demonstrate research-based strategies that strengthen young students' understanding of text. Participants will see how to teach six specific comprehension processes that are key to primary students' ongoing literacy growth.
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Current, Best Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Predicting and Inferring, Visualizing, and Determining Important Content in Informational Text, Grades K-2 - PDKIT
In this comprehensive PD Resource Kit, exemplary teachers demonstrate research-based strategies that strengthen young students' understanding of text. Participants will see how to teach six specific comprehension processes that are key to primary students' ongoing literacy growth.
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Grades 1-3: Strategies for Increasing Your Students' Reading Fluency - Online Course [ORFM]
This course will help you implement a wide variety of fluency-boosting lessons, strategies, and activities for primary-grade students. You’ll see experienced primary teachers working directly with young students, demonstrating ways to improve children’s reading rate, expression, phrasing, and intonation.
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Grades 1-3: Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Developing Level - Online Course [ORG2]
Growing literacy learners need a guided reading format that addresses their increasing capability and capacity for reading independence. In this online course two outstanding teachers and guided reading practitioners provide models, explanations, and suggestions for moving students from emergent level reading instruction into guided reading lessons and activities more appropriate to young, developing literacy learners
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Grades 1-3: Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Fluent Level - Online Course [ORG3]
As children progress to near-fluent and fluent levels of literacy, they continue to reap great benefits from the structure and support that guided reading provides. In this course, you'll see how young readers are able to strengthen their fluency, comprehension, and higher-level thinking skills over a wide variety of text, both fiction and nonfiction in small, flexible guided reading groups.
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Grades 2-5: Comprehension Strategies That Help Your Struggling Students Be More Successful Readers - Online Course [OCSH]
In this online, video-based course, Linda Hoyt, a recognized expert in the field of reading, demonstrates outstanding comprehension strategies with groups of children, grades 2-5.
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Grades 3-5: Catching Up Students Who’ve Fallen Behind in Reading or Writing - Online Course [OHCY]
This online course features Kelly Harmon, an experienced literacy teacher, instructional coach and national presenter.
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Grades 3-6: Enhancing Explicit Comprehension Instruction - Online Course [ORA1]
This video-based, On Demand Online course demonstrates a research‑based, classroom-proven framework for teaching reading comprehension processes and strategies to students in the intermediate grades.
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Grades 3-6: Instructional Strategies for Guided Reading that Enhance Students’ Reading Comprehension - Online Course [ORGH]
This video-based online course includes demonstrations of six powerful instructional strategies that are ideally suited to guided reading in grades 3-6. These strategies focus students’ attention on key concepts, important details, and underlying themes in text. Some of the strategies can be used by students in their independent reading; some are designed to help teachers enrich students’ encounters with challenging text.
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Grades 3-6: Meaningful Independent Literacy Centers and Activities to Keep Students Learning While You Teach Reading Groups - Online Course [ORSD]
This online course takes viewers inside three schools where intermediate students are actively engaged in a wide variety of independent literacy-building activities as part of a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction. Far from "busy work," meaningful centers and assignments are ideally suited to learners in grades three through six.
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Grades 3-6: Practical Strategies that Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension - Online Course [ORA2]
This video-based, On Demand Online course is a rich resource of comprehension strategies for teachers and students in grades 3-6. The strategies demonstrated and described in the course help intermediate students develop six key comprehension processes: previewing, making connections, self-monitoring, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing.
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Grades 3-6: Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students’ Reading Skills - Online Course [ORGS]
In this course you will see experienced intermediate grade level teachers working with guided reading groups to increase students' literacy growth and deepen their understanding of text. You'll see how guided reading uniquely combines the critical attributes of small group instruction and one-on-one coaching to move students forward as readers.
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Grades 3-6: Using Six-Trait Mini-Lessons to Strengthen Students' Writing - Online Course [OW6L]
This outstanding course demonstrates a variety of engaging six-trait mini-lessons in intermediate classrooms. The strategies in this program will help you deepen students' understanding of the components of good writing and extend their writing skills.
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Grades 6-12: Dyslexia: Best Strategies to Increase Student Success - Online Curse [OHD1]
Best strategies for dyslexia. How to better support students with dyslexia. Increase student success. Help students gain reading fluency. Backed by experience and research.
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Grades 6-12: Improving Your Students' Descriptive Writing - Online Course [OWDL]
In this video-based online course, experienced national presenter and English teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter demonstrates, with her own middle and high school students, a variety of practical and manageable strategies that help students extend and revise their writing, improve their grammar and writing mechanics, and increase the sophistication and style of their written work.
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Grades 6-12: Interactive Vocabulary Strategies That Boost Student Learning and Achievement - Online Course [OVDB]
Directly teaching vocabulary improves reading comprehension and increases subject area achievement. This course takes you inside classrooms, grades 6-12, where teachers are using highly engaging instructional strategies to help students commit vocabulary to long-term memory and deepen their understanding of course content.
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Grades 6-12: Strategies! Strategies! Strategies! Significantly Increase Students' Writing Skills - Online Course [OWWL]
This online course is organized around video clips of a seminar by experienced English teacher and national presenter Mary Ellen Ledbetter. You'll see Mary Ellen present and demonstrate practical, time-efficient strategies for improving the writing of middle and high school students across a range of genres.
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Grades 6-12: Strengthening Your Students' Writing Skills by Teaching Smarter, Not Harder - Online Course [OWTL]
This video-based online course features experienced English teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter as she works with middle and high school students. She demonstrates a variety of practical and manageable strategies that help students extend and revise their writing, improve their grammar and writing mechanics, and increase the sophistication and style of their written work. All English/language arts educators – whether first-year teachers or veteran instructors – will find new, time-efficient strategies they can immediately implement in their own classrooms to improve their students’ writing.
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Grades K-2: Best Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Making Connections, Summarizing, and Questioning - Online Course [ORM1]
In this course national trainer Mary Beth Allen and other experienced primary-grade educators use research-based, classroom-proven strategies and activities to strengthen young students' reading comprehension. Teachers explain, model, and actively engage diverse groups of students with questions and prompts during read-aloud, shared reading, and guided reading lessons.
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Grades K-2: Best Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Predicting and Inferring, Visualizing, and Determining Important Content in Informational Text - Online Course [ORM2]
In this course national trainer Mary Beth Allen and other experienced primary-grade educators use research-based, classroom-proven strategies and activities to strengthen young students' reading comprehension. Teachers provide explicit instruction on predicting and inferring, visualizing, and determining the important content in informational text during read-aloud, shared reading, and guided reading lessons.
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Grades K-2: Early Intervention Strategies for Students Struggling with Reading Accuracy and Fluency - Online Course [ORIW]
Early intervention focused on foundational reading skills is vital to the development of struggling readers in grades K-2. In this online learning course, teachers demonstrate small-group intervention strategies and techniques for improving reading accuracy and fluency — two key attributes of proficient readers. You will see a wealth of strategies that can easily be implemented in any approach to reading instruction to help students meet grade level reading standards.
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Grades K-2: Early Intervention Strategies for Students Struggling with Reading Comprehension - Online Course [ORIC]
This online learning course focuses on practical, easy-to-implement intervention strategies for strengthening children's understanding of what they are reading – all in the highly supportive context of small group instruction. Filmed in primary grade classrooms, students will see teachers demonstrate strategies ideal for increasing the comprehension of struggling readers in any approach to reading instruction.
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Grades K-2: Guided Reading: DIFFERENTIATING Using Small Group Instruction - Online Course [ORGZ]
This online course features literacy coach and national reading expert, Judy Lynch as she shares strategies to differentiate guiding reading during small group instruction.
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Grades K-2: Using a Six-Trait Model to Extend Students Writing - Online Course [OWSB]
In this course you'll observe children in grades K-2 classrooms in the spring of the year as teachers support and scaffold their writing development using the six traits of effective writing. These young authors began writing on the very first day of school and have been participating every day in writing workshop and six trait writing activities and lessons.
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Grades K-2: Using a Six-Trait Model to Launch Students as Writers - Online Course [OWLB]
In this course you'll see teachers guiding primary-grade students' writing (and drawing) at the very beginning of the school year. The instructional focus is on three foundational writing traits: ideas, organization and conventions
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Grades K-3: Maximizing the Benefits of Literacy Centers: Meaningful Activities that Boost Reading and Writing - Online Course [ORCH]
In this course, you will see a wealth of activities and ideas "in action" within K-3 classrooms. Literacy center expert Linda Holliman explains and demonstrates practical ways to manage center work and greatly increase the value of students' independent literacy time.
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Grades K-5: Helping Your Struggling Readers Become More Successful Readers: Targeted Interventions that Work! - Online Course [OHIL]
This online course features reading specialist and national presenter Kristen Large as she shares targeted intervention strategies to help struggling readers. The course includes the following topics: assessing students, early literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
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Grades K-5: Maximizing the Active Participation and Language Learning of ELL Students Using Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Word Work - Online Course [OEVB]
This high-energy course demonstrates how to enhance the language and literacy growth of English language learners within whole group lessons and activities. Teachers demonstrate how to increase the participation of second language learners and infuse whole class literacy lessons with visual, tactile and kinesthetic strategies that engage all students.
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Grades K-6: DYSLEXIA - Help Children Who Struggle to Successfully Read, Write and Spell - Online Course [OHDW]
This online course features special education teacher, author and national trainer Mark Weakland as he shares strategies and techniques to help students who present as dyslexic.
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Grades K-6: Dyslexia: Best Targeted Interventions for Greater Literacy Success - Online Curse [OHDZ]
How to better support students with dyslexia. Best targeted interventions for greater literacy success. Help students gain reading fluency. Backed by experience and research.
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Grades K-6: Response to Intervention: Strengthening Your Tier 2 Interventions with Struggling Readers - Online Course [OXR2]
RTI Tier 2 interventions supplement core classroom reading instruction and accelerate the learning progress of struggling readers. This course demonstrates how three different schools have organized Tier 2 intervention cycles to meet student needs, capitalize on the strengths of their instructional staffs, and make best use of available resources.
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Grades K-12: MAKERSPACES: Creating Motivating, Engaging Work Spaces for Your Library - Online Course [OBMX]
This online course features award-winning librarian and national presenter, Tricia Kuon, as she defines, explains and demonstrates Makerspaces.
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Grades Pre-K and Kindergarten: Increase All Your Students' Learning with Practical, Timesaving Work Stations - Online Course [OQCM]
This on demand, online course is organized around video clips of a seminar by experienced teacher, national trainer and author Carolyn McMahon. You'll learn how to incorporate interactive, hands-on and minds-on lessons, practical work stations and a variety of resources in literacy and math designed to enhance the learning of young children in PreK and Kindergarten.
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Improving Your Students' Writing: Improving Your Students' Descriptive Writing, Grades 6-12 - PDKIT
Participants spend several days in master teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter's classroom and experience unique instructional strategies that cause students to exceed standard expectations for writing success.
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Improving Your Students' Writing: Strengthening Your Students' Writing Skills By Teaching Smarter, Not Harder, Grades 6-12 - PDKIT
Participants spend several days in master teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter's classroom and experience unique instructional strategies that cause students to exceed standard expectations for writing success.
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Increasing Your Students' Reading Fluency: Strategies That Work, Grades 1-3 - PDKIT
In this PD Resource Kit, experienced primary teachers work directly with young students using strategies and activities that improve children’s reading rate, expression, phrasing, and intonation and help them gain a better understanding of the content of their reading. Also included in the PD Resource Kit are time-effective ways to assess reading fluency in grades 1-3.
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Instructional Strategies for Guided Reading that Enhance Students' Reading Comprehension, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
Linda Hoyt and other exceptional teachers demonstrate a variety of powerful instructional strategies ideally suited to guided reading lessons in grades 3-6. The teaching strategies featured in this training program focus students' attention on key concepts, important details and underlying themes. They strengthen students' ability to comprehend and enjoy increasingly sophisticated text.
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Interactive Vocabulary Strategies That Boost Student Learning and Achievement, Grades 6-12 - PDKIT
This PD Resource Kit provides examples of teachers in grades 6-12 using highly engaging instructional strategies to help students commit vocabulary to long-term memory and deepen their understanding of course content.
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Keep All Your Students Learning While You Teach Reading Groups: Creating and Managing Meaningful, Independent Literacy Centers and Activities, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
In order for all students to achieve reading competency, they need to be productively engaged with text as much as possible. While intermediate grade teachers meet with small reading groups, the rest of the class can be productively engaged in a variety of independent literacy-building centers and activities aligned with grade-level standards.
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Maximizing the Active Participation and Language Learning of ELL Students Using Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Word Work, Grades K-5 - PDKIT
This high-energy PD Resource Kit demonstrates how to enhance the language and literacy growth of English language learners within whole group lessons and activities. Participants will see how to significantly increase the active participation of second language learners using strategies that strengthen language understanding and increase motivation for learning.
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Maximizing the Benefits of Literacy Centers: Meaningful Activities that Boost Reading and Writing Skills, Grades K-3 - PDKIT
How can today's primary teachers most effectively use independent centers to enhance students' literacy growth? In this PD Resource Kit, participants will see a wealth of activities and ideas "in action" within K-3 classrooms. Literacy center expert Linda Holliman explains and demonstrates practical ways to manage center work and greatly increase the value of students' independent literacy time.
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Powerful Early Intervention Strategies to Help Students Struggling with Reading Accuracy and Fluency, Grades K-2 - PDKIT
Focuses on small-group intervention strategies and techniques for improving reading accuracy and fluency — two foundational reading standards, grades K-2.
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Powerful Early Intervention Strategies to Help Students Struggling with Reading Comprehension, Grades K-2 - PDKIT
Focuses on practical, easy-to-implement intervention strategies for strengthening children’s understanding of what they are reading – all in the highly supportive context of small group instruction, grades K-2.
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Strengthening Students' Reading Comprehension: Enhancing Explicit Comprehension Instruction, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
This two-part PD Resource Kit not only demonstrates a dynamic three-stage instructional framework for the teaching of comprehension processes but also provides viewers with a wealth of strategies to deepen their students' understanding of text. Filmed in intermediate grade classrooms, the program highlights essential components of explicit comprehension instruction and broadens teachers' repertoires of engaging comprehension strategies.
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Strengthening Students' Reading Comprehension: Practical Strategies That Improve Students' Reading Comprehension, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
This two-part PD Resource Kit not only demonstrates a dynamic three-stage instructional framework for the teaching of comprehension processes but also provides viewers with a wealth of strategies to deepen their students' understanding of text. Filmed in intermediate grade classrooms, the program highlights essential components of explicit comprehension instruction and broadens teachers' repertoires of engaging comprehension strategies.
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Teaching Students to Comprehend More Deeply, Grades 3-5 - PDKIT
This PD Resource Kit focuses on strategic ways teachers can provide essential instruction and guided practice to help students read closely, think deeply about texts, and participate in thoughtful discussions. The program demonstrates a variety of highly effective strategies and activities that can easily be implemented in any approach to reading instruction, grades 3-5.
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Using a Six Trait Model to Strengthen Students' Writing: Extending Students' Writing Skills, Grades K-2 - PDKIT
This unique two-part PD Resource Kit takes participants inside several kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms to observe master teacher Jaime Bailey and other experienced, innovative teachers working with young writers using a six trait model. Participants will observe guided writing, practice activities, mini-lessons, independent writing time, and writing conferences specially designed to move young students forward as authors.
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Using a Six Trait Model to Strengthen Students' Writing: Launching Students as Writers, Grades K-2 - PDKIT
This unique two-part PD Resource Kit takes participants inside several kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms to observe master teacher Jaime Bailey and other experienced, innovative teachers working with young writers using a six trait model.
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Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Developing Level, Grades K-3 - PDKIT
Guided reading is a powerful format for moving students beyond emergent-level skills and strategies. In this PD Resource Kit, outstanding guided reading teachers provide models, explanations and practical strategies for expanding developing-level students’ reading independence.
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Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Emergent Level, Grades K-3 - PDKIT
This PD Resource Kit clearly demonstrates how emergent-level guided reading lessons help young students unlock the meaning of text. Viewers will see students engage with print, increase their sight vocabularies and phonics skills, and gain fluency.
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Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Fluent Level, Grades K-3 - PDKIT
Viewers will observe a wealth of strategies ideally suited to guided reading lessons for near-fluent and fluent-level readers. Within the structure of guided reading, skilled teachers demonstrate how to strengthen young students’ reading comprehension – and thinking skills – across a wide variety of text.
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Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
Filmed in intermediate grade classrooms, this PD Resource Kit features experienced teachers working with guided reading groups to increase students' literacy growth and deepen their understanding of text. Participants will see how guided reading uniquely combines the critical attributes of small group instruction and one-on-one coaching to move students forward as readers.
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Using Literacy Centers to Strengthen Your Reading and Writing Program, Grades K-3 - PDKIT
This PD Resource Kit takes participants inside primary classrooms where teachers are using literacy centers to reinforce reading and writing skills and concepts. These centers accommodate a wide range of student interests and reading levels, provide meaningful practice, and enable you to work directly with groups of students or individual children.
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Using RTI to Strengthen Reading Instruction and Interventions: How to Strengthen Your Tier 1 Reading Instruction and Interventions for Struggling Readers, Grades K-6 - PDKIT
This two-part PD Resource Kit is ideal for helping elementary educators transform their reading programs and practices through the Response to Intervention process. Participants will see how to maximize the achievement of struggling readers within Tier 1 core classroom reading programs and enhance students' reading development with targeted Tier 2 interventions.
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Using RTI to Strengthen Reading Instruction and Interventions: How to Strengthen Your Tier 2 Interventions with Struggling Readers, Grades K-6 - PDKIT
This two-part PD Resource Kit is ideal for helping elementary educators transform their reading programs and practices through the Response to Intervention process. Participants will see how to maximize the achievement of struggling readers within Tier 1 core classroom reading programs and enhance students' reading development with targeted Tier 2 interventions.
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Using Six Trait Mini-Lessons to Strengthen Your Students' Writing, Grades 3-6 - PDKIT
Mini-lessons are an ideal way to help intermediate-grade students apply the six traits to their own writing. Participants will see teachers and students engaged in a variety of quick, high-impact lessons focused on each of the traits.
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Vocabulary Strategies That Boost Students' Reading Comprehension, Grades 2-6 - PDKIT
This PD Resource Kit takes you inside intermediate grade classrooms where teachers are using outstanding strategies to expand the reading vocabularies of their students. Straightforward, practical and flexible, these strategies are well suited to busy classroom learning programs and effective across a wide range of subject areas and words.
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