Accelerate the Reading Skills of Your Title I Students: Practical Strategies (Grades K-6) Seminar Presented by Kelly Harmon Outstanding Teacher and Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Working With Title I Students in Grades K-6

• Practical strategies for implementing the scientifically research-based reading practices outlined in No Child Left Behind – phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
• Mini-lesson ideas targeted to the specific strategies struggling readers need to be successful
• Proven techniques for identifying your students’ strengths and matching instruction to accelerate their reading achievement
• Dozens of classroom-proven, practical strategies to accelerate the reading and writing achievement of your Title I students
• Receive an extensive resource handbook with ready-to-use, teacher-tested activities for your Title I program

Practical Ideas and Strategies

No student should have to struggle to read and miss out on opportunities to know the power that reading brings to our lives. In this strategy-packed workshop, Kelly Harmon will engage you in classroom-proven techniques for accelerating the literacy achievement of your Title I students. Building on desire and passion for all students to know how to read and comprehend deeply, Kelly will present you with “use-the-next-day” strategies that allow you to use formal and informal assessments effectively. You’ll learn specific strategies that target exactly what will make the biggest and most dramatic impact on your Title I students’ understanding of the reading process. As an added bonus, you’ll explore a range of materials that reluctant readers find interesting and manageable.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Accelerating Your Title I Students’ Reading Skills
   Specific classroom-proven strategies for accelerating the reading skills of your struggling readers … Learn how to narrow your teaching to focus on proficient reader strategies that match the specific needs of your Title I students
2. Implementing the Five Research-Based Reading Practices
   Expand your repertoire of strategies to effectively teach the five critical components of reading instruction as outlined in NCLB and Reading First – phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
3. Developing a Repertoire of Strategies for Your Title I Students
   Develop a classroom-proven repertoire of strategies you can easily adapt to your current program … Ideas and lessons you can use immediately with your struggling readers
4. Using Prior Knowledge to Scaffold Your Instruction
   Capitalize on what your students do know … Successful strategies to scaffold thinking and plan lessons that build on your students’ prior knowledge and skills … Deepen your students’ understanding and ability to read for meaning
5. Increasing Fluency and Word Reading Accuracy
   Learn practical strategies for increasing fluency and automatic reading of 90-100% of the words in texts … Help your Title I students learn and use effective fix-up strategies for dealing with unknown words
6. Using Assessment to Plan Your Teaching
   Learn how to use formal and informal assessments to quickly determine what’s important to teach next to ensure acceleration of reading achievement … Techniques for grouping Title I students by their specific instructional needs for guided reading instruction
7. Selecting Literature for Reluctant and Struggling Readers
   Increase your students’ motivation to read by choosing literature that reflects your students’ reading levels, interests and culture … Numerous fiction and nonfiction resources your students will be excited about reading and sharing
8. Strengthening Your Students’ Reading Skills Through Integrated Writing
   Incorporate writing into guided and independent reading using reading response logs … Specific strategies to develop reading comprehension through written responses
9. Creating Independent Readers Using the Gradual Release Model
   Effectively model strategies proficient readers use … Gradually release responsibility and ownership of the strategies using shared, guided and independent reading
10. Creating Opportunities for Your Students to Experience Success in Reading
    Use literature discussion groups, book celebrations and research presentations to get your students actively involved in success-oriented reading activities … Classroom-proven activities you can use to help your students view themselves as real readers

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

• Dozens of strategies for accelerating the reading achievement of your Title I students
• Integrated reading and writing connections for modeled, shared, guided, and independent reading instruction
• Identify fluency strategies that dramatically increase your students’ reading rate and prosody
• Proven strategies for identifying your students’ strengths and matching instruction to accelerate their achievement
• Mini-lesson ideas targeted for specific strategies struggling readers need
• Practical ideas for increasing word-reading accuracy
• Seven big thinking skills proficient readers know and understand
• How to engage your Title I students’ interest in fiction and nonfiction books
• Create a print-rich environment that facilitates your Title I students’ motivation to read
• Highly effective teaching tips for utilizing graphic organizers to help your students understand all kinds of text
• How to model effective think-alouds that allow your students to see and hear what good readers do to comprehend
• Utilize your students’ prior knowledge and experiences by connecting literature that reflects their lives and extends their schema
• Ready-to-use strategies for teaching comprehension skills
• Celebrate reading achievement through book talks and presentations
• How to determine your students’ reading level and depth of comprehension
• Receive a comprehensive bibliography of highly motivating literature that struggling readers can’t resist
• Proven ways to involve parents in helping develop successful readers

A Message From Your Seminar Leader, Kelly Harmon

Dear Colleague:

Teaching a struggling reader can be one of the most rewarding, yet challenging endeavors an educator can undertake. As a teacher of struggling readers, I have seen many children struggle due to misconceptions about what reading really is. The most important ingredient is a teacher who is able to find out what the student already knows compared to what he or she needs to know. Effective planning and the use of flexible groups ensure that the specific needs of the Title I student are met. I’ve seen struggling students gain up to two years’ growth in one year using these strategies.

I want to share with you many proven strategies that accelerate the reading achievement of struggling readers. In this workshop, you’ll experience hands-on, minds-on strategies for developing proficient readers and writers. You’ll get next-day-ready-to-go ideas for helping your students build their reading and writing skills! Grouping, choosing high-impact materials, developing thinking skills, and motivating reluctant readers are just some of the topics I’ll be addressing with time-tested, student-tested ideas.

I extend to you a personal invitation with a pledge from me that you will leave the seminar with dozens of practical reading and writing strategies for accelerating your Title I students’ reading achievement. You’ll also receive an extensive resource handbook to help you implement these valuable techniques in your classroom. I’m looking forward to seeing you at the seminar!

Sincerely,

Kelly Harmon

You will learn dozens of specific instructional strategies you can use to greatly increase the reading success of your Title I students.

Who Should Attend

Educators serving grades K-6: Title I Staff, Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Special Education Teachers, Instructional Aides, Curriculum Specialists, and Administrators.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook:
Each participant will receive the extensive resource handbook, Accelerate the Reading Skills of Your Title I Students: Practical Strategies (Grades K-6), specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• ready-to-use strategies to accelerate the reading of your Title I students
• specific ways to increase fluency
• mini-lessons you can use immediately in your Title I program
• techniques for formal and informal assessments to determine what to teach next

Meet and Share:
This seminar provides participants a wonderful opportunity to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in strengthening their Title I reading program.

Consultation Available:
Kelly Harmon will be available at the seminar to answer your questions and discuss the unique challenges of your students’ reading needs.

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