TRAINING

Seminar Description

Course Objectives – Course participants will:
• demonstrate an understanding of the process of normal reading development and the relationship to oral language development
• develop an understanding of recent research findings in the area of reading and implications for the classroom
• develop an understanding of how to incorporate phonemic awareness training into reading instruction within the classroom setting
• be able to teach letter sound associations using mnemonics, imagery, and oral kinesthetic cueing techniques
• be able to perform sound blending, segmentation, and tracking activities for decoding and encoding
• develop techniques for training the acquisition of phonetically irregular sight words
• develop an understanding of techniques to increase automaticity and fluency for oral reading using a variety of methods
• develop an understanding of how to teach multisyllable decoding and encoding skills, utilizing syllabication and structural analysis techniques
• develop the ability to perform selected informal diagnostic screening tasks to identify students at risk for reading disabilities
• demonstrate incorporation of learned strategies into the classroom setting

Class Format -Involves instruction through
• lecture
• material demonstrations
• videos
• hands-on practice
• interactive discussions

Topical Outline
1. General Overview
• recent research findings in the area of reading
• normal development of reading
• phonological awareness and oral language -their relationships to reading
• disruptions in the development of reading

2. Diagnosis of Reading Disorders
• general diagnostic indicators
• informal screening measures
• formal diagnostics

3. Phonological awareness from pre-reading to reading
• early diagnostic indicators and screening methods
• activity suggestions for the classroom
• phonemic awareness training vs. traditional phonics instruction

4. Sound Symbol Correspondence
• using imagery, mnemonics, and oral kinesthetic information
• structured, explicit, intersensory programming
• demonstration of Lively Letters and hands-on activity

5. Sound Blending, Segmentation, and Manipulation Tracking – Decoding / Encoding
• effective cueing strategies
• hands-on practice using picture letter cards and plain letter cards
• from simple to complex syllables

6. Multisyllable Words – Decoding / Encoding
• morphological endings
• syllabication rules using mnemonics
• structural analysis techniques
• covers the six syllable types

7. Sight Words
• presentation of Sight Words You Can See
• mnemonics, imagery, and phonetic skills to develop sight words

8. Fluency and Automaticity
• strategies to promote accuracy of decoding
• automaticity and speed drills
• at the sound, word, sentence, and text levels

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