Increasing Your Effectiveness as a READING SPECIALIST (Grades K-5)

Presented by Sue Brady
Outstanding Reading Specialist and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades K-5 Reading Specialists

Innovative, use-tomorrow instructional approaches that will strengthen the progress and stamina of all your readers
Highly practical strategies to raise the rigor of your readers in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
How to maximize your expertise as a Reading Specialist, creating a classroom and school environment that promotes reading
Receive an extensive Reading Specialist digital resource handbook packed with ideas and strategies you can use immediately

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Working as a Reading Specialist is a satisfying, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming job that requires numerous unique skills. This fast-paced seminar will help you overcome obstacles and renew your enthusiasm for your complex, unique and vitally important role. In this NEW seminar, experienced Reading Specialist and national presenter Sue Brady will share the best ideas for strengthening your work as a Reading Specialist. Sue will show you how to elevate your current reading instruction without overhauling it by integrating high-impact, low-prep strategies. Enhance your existing curriculum with engaging activities your students will actually enjoy! Increase the effectiveness of your collaboration with other teachers, and your model and demonstration lessons in classrooms. Improve your identification of students who may need additional help and your ability to co-develop and deliver tailored interventions and effective reading instruction with other teachers and educational staff.

Join Sue for a day filled with powerful strategies, intervention materials, and resources to enhance your students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and their overall reading success!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Strengthen Your Effectiveness as a Reading Specialist
Gain outstanding ideas specifically for increasing your effectiveness as a Reading Specialist … Numerous ways to make a significant difference in your students' lives by helping them better develop essential reading skills that are foundational for success in school and in life
Enhance Your Current Reading Program With High-Impact, Low-Prep Strategies
Discover easy-to-integrate activities you can immediately incorporate into your existing instruction … Enhance rather than overhaul your curriculum!
Equip Yourself With Evidence-Based Practices
Gain research-backed techniques designed to enhance your effectiveness as a Reading Specialist and students' reading skills … Consider a host of techniques you can use that have continually proven successful in classrooms
Make Best Use of Multisensory Experiences and Activities
Discover ways to expand your students' vocabulary and improve their language skills through interaction and exploration … Create a richer, more effective learning environment that better supports your students' unique needs
Practical Strategies, Specifically for Reading Specialists
Explore practical tips and strategies you can immediately apply to your own instruction
Support Powerful Interventions That Will Drive Student Growth
Gain ideas for strengthening collaboration with teachers to identify students who may need additional support … Explore great ways to co-develop tailored reading intervention plans
Maximize Your Collaboration With Other Educators
Discover powerful strategies for working more effectively with classroom teachers and other educational staff to implement effective reading programs that will strengthen student progress (a huge part of our job as Reading Specialists!)
Strengthen Your Model and Demonstration Lessons
Gain use-tomorrow strategies to increase the success of your model and demonstration lessons in classrooms … Involve your teachers in observing and participating in effective reading instruction lessons, seeing the strategies in action
Acquire Helpful Resources You Can Share
Explore a collection of great books, reading materials, lesson plans, and resources for free, and inexpensive books you can add to your collection … Your teachers will love being able to easily access and use these resources in their classrooms
Receive a Valuable Reading Specialist Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with practical strategies, techniques, activities, and resources you can immediately use to increase your effectiveness as a Reading Specialist

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Proven activities and techniques to enhance your role as a Reading Specialist and strengthen your existing reading program
Innovative hands-on activities that will motivate even your most reluctant and struggling readers, while raising rigor
Ways to shift away from a "fix-it" role toward enhancing quality classroom instruction to foster more effective student reading growth
Interactive, motivating activities for building phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
Dozens of comprehension strategies to help your struggling learners develop deeper levels of understanding
Innovative approaches and ways to celebrate student success that will reignite your passion for teaching
Great ideas for literacy celebrations that commemorate and promote a love of reading, while engaging families in their students' reading growth
Creative and energizing approaches that won't take hours to plan or implement
Practical classroom activities to strengthen the reading achievement of all students
Opportunities to discuss common challenges with Reading Specialist peers and gain insights on effective interventions and approaches
Methods to address students' lack of foundational reading skills to help them make progress and to strengthen their reading proficiency
Creative ways to engage struggling readers, boost their confidence and make reading engaging
Outstanding research-based teaching techniques and tools for reinforcing and strengthening your students' reading proficiency

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As you know, being a Reading Specialist is an ever changing, unique and often challenging role! Not only are we responsible for supporting struggling learners, but we are also school leaders, tasked with advancing reading instruction and achievement in our buildings in our work with students, teachers, administration, parents, and the community.

Over my years as a Reading Specialist, I have experienced both highs and lows, and I want to share what keeps me going year after year. In our day together, we'll focus intently on what has worked (and look at what hasn't). I want to equip you with the practical ideas, activities and strategies I have found most successful, with the ultimate goal of helping you enhance your own practice as a Reading Specialist.

I will share dozens of classroom-proven interventions, strategies and activities designed to increase success and rigor for struggling readers, while also being highly motivating and fun. We will explore numerous great ideas for teaching and strengthening phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension that will entice even your most reluctant readers!

Join your colleagues and me for this dynamic seminar, devoted uniquely and specifically to Reading Specialists. You'll leave feeling motivated, energized and excited about all the new ideas and approaches you can apply – not only to help solve challenging situations – but to greatly enhance your work as a Reading Specialist!

I'm excited to spend the day with you!

Sincerely,
Sue Brady

P.S. I have designed this seminar specifically with you in mind! You will leave refreshed, enthusiastic, and filled with great, new ideas!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-5 Reading Specialists

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Reading Specialist Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

Practical activities and techniques to supplement and expand your existing reading program to better support struggling readers and build their confidence
Highly motivating interventions and activities for all readers, based on current research and designed to challenge your students to reach their full potential
Quality literature to introduce rich vocabulary and enhance students' language skills
Motivating, engaging, hands-on activities and materials that replace and go well beyond simply "remediation"
Appropriate instructional methods to help support classroom teachers with improving students' phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
Proven activities and techniques to supplement and expand your existing program to support struggling readers

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
Sue Brady will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Consultation Available
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in increasing their success as Reading Specialists.

On-Site Training Guarantee

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Consequently, we provide a strong program guarantee.

We guarantee you'll be fully satisfied or you'll owe us nothing after your on-site training event.