Supporting Striving Readers and Students with Dyslexia in Core Instruction

Interactive session is designed to provide specific evidence-based strategies for K-5 teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches

Supporting Striving Readers and Students with Dyslexia in Core Instruction

February 28, 2020

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

$75 per person

This interactive session is designed to provide specific evidence-based strategies for K-5 teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches to support striving readers in phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary learning. These are three areas in which students with the characteristics of dyslexia often struggle and therefore require explicit, systematic, and multisensory instruction. Participants are asked to bring materials that they will be using in the next month during their core instruction so that they can collaboratively plan lessons and apply the strategies to their daily instruction. Materials can be designed for either whole group mini-lessons or small guided reading groups. Materials might include: teacher’s guides, picture books, narrative or informational texts, leveled texts, etc.

An optional, one hour follow-up session will be offered online to further support teachers in their application of the instructional practices. Minnesota clock hours are included for the in-person session.

Presenter Bio: Debra Peterson, PhD. is a consultant for the Minnesota Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Publications include articles in Reading Research Quarterly, Elementary School Journal, and The Reading Teacher. Dr. Peterson has written multiple book chapters and is also the co-author of No More Reading Instruction without Differentiation. Awards include the International Literacy Association Albert J. Harris award for outstanding reading research.