This online course features Heather Kenny, a highly experienced educator, dyslexia tutor, and national presenter. The course is divided into three modules. In the first module, Heather provides an overview of dyslexia, establishing its facts, dispelling its myths, and addressing its stigmas. The second module offers strategies for improving students' decoding, and the third module offers strategies for improving students' reading comprehension. Supplementary print and digital resources are included.
You will learn how to:
- Improve students' decoding through engaging games
- Utilize activities that boost students' reading comprehension
- Use phonemic awareness screeners to track students' progress
- Incorporate multi-sensory learning in your classroom
- Provide additional support for students with dyslexia
- Understand and define dyslexia
Watch an excerpt from this course:
"I thoroughly enjoyed the class and look forward to implementing these strategies in my class."
- D. Searle
"As a secondary educator, I greatly appreciate a PD focusing on dyslexia strategies for secondary students. Heather Kenny was highly engaging and resourceful."
- T. Goodman
"I found the information in this course very helpful and realistic for intervention."
- A. Bydlon
"I've been looking for a course that would give me further insight into working with older compromised readers which are most often dyslexic. This course is a great beginning to catapult me into greater use of workable strategies that I can easily implement in my classroom. The comparison of reading delays being due to language delays and reading delays was very useful to me. I have just this year begun to change the ways I address these two camps of learners in my room. So, the strategies that Heather highlighted will be very useful for me to add to my repertoire when teaching both challenges in my classroom."
- T. Davis
