This online course features Heather Kenny, a highly experienced educator, dyslexia tutor, and national presenter. The course is divided into four 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' phonemic awareness, and the third module offers strategies for improving teachers' phonics instruction. In the final module, Heather demonstrates how to plan and execute an effective intervention lesson, incorporating strategies learned earlier in the course.
You will learn how to:
- Plan and execute highly effective intervention lessons to improve students' reading fluency
- Improve students' phonemic awareness through engaging games and activities
- Utilize phonemic awareness screeners to track students' progress
- Enhance your phonics instruction
- Play games that boost students' reading fluency
- Incorporate multi-sensory learning in your classroom
- Understand and define dyslexia
Watch an excerpt from this course:
"So many ideas and strategies are given in this course. It will help so much as I move forward in my classroom."
- L. Bower
"This course was incredibly informative. Heather Kenny was knowledgeable in the content, had wonderful strategies tips and insight to share and packed a lot into a short period of time."
- S. Scheffel
"Heather Kenny was an informative and inspiring speaker; I would recommend this course to all of our K-2 teachers. The digital resource book will be very helpful as I implement many of her strategies with my small group of struggling early readers."
- F. Leitch
"This course was great! The presenter was very knowledgeable about the topic, and I learned so many cool things I can bring to the teachers at my school!"
- A. Gage
