Response to Intervention:

Practical Ideas for Helping Students Struggling with Early Literacy Skills
(Grades Pre-K and Kindergarten)

Presented by Angela Cameron
Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades Pre-K and Kindergarten: Classroom Teachers, Intervention Specialists, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Literacy Coaches, ESL Teachers, and Administrators

Discover how RTI can work in preschool and kindergarten classrooms so you can intervene before young students start to fall behind in literacy skills
Practical strategies and easy-to-use interventions to strengthen whole group as well as small group instruction
Learn best practices for implementing a successful three tier intervention model in your classroom or school, ideal for pre-K and kindergarten
Dozens of effective activities to strengthen students’ phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language skills
Move from a remediation model to an acceleration model to close the gap for struggling students
Make the most of your intervention time by utilizing a research-based routine to effectively use every moment in meaningful activities

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Preschool and kindergarten students walk through the doors of our schools and classrooms with vastly different
pre-reading skills and experiences. The question we face as early childhood educators is how to meet the needs of ALL students in our classroom – those who have been read to since birth as well as those that have rarely seen a book.

Response to Intervention (RTI) can help close this gap before some students start to fall behind. Join Angela Cameron in her practical seminar focused just on pre-K and kindergarten as she examines how to effectively utilize the RTI three tier model. Angela will share numerous classroom tested activities, ideas, and strategies appropriate for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction. Activities will focus on phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency, as well as writing and oral language.

The entire day is packed with practical ideas you can take back to your classroom and implement immediately with your own students. Join Angela for a day devoted to learning how to use RTI to increase and enhance the literacy development of all your students.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Effectively Utilize the “Tiered” Response to Intervention (RTI) Model in Your Pre-K and Kindergarten Program
Learn how the three tiers of the Response to Intervention model works in pre-K and kindergarten classrooms … Ideas and models for implementing and managing RTI in your classroom
Provide Practical, Research-Based Interventions that Work with RTI
Learn proven interventions that work best with pre-K and kindergarten students … Practical ideas, activities, games, and teaching tips for students who struggle with literacy skills – all perfect in a RTI classroom
Practical Strategies to Accelerate Your Struggling Readers and Pre-Readers
Research-based, classroom-tested ideas for working with students who have not mastered important reading and/or pre-reading skills … One-to-one matching, letter names, letter/sound correspondence, print awareness, and sight word recognition
Effective Research-Based Routines for Intervention Groups
Learn a specific 20-minute routine for working with Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention groups that maximizes instructional time while teaching skills in the context of reading
Provide a RTI Framework Where Every Child Can Be Successful
Discover practical ways to use interventions in all three tiers to meet the needs of all your students … Ideas to involve children in literacy activities that have maximum impact
Address the Critical Components of Early Literacy
Learn practical, highly effective ways to address phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language … Whole group and small group interventions that work
Increase your Teaching Options
Dozens of easy-to-use activities and strategies to enhance early literacy skills ... Practical strategies for your struggling students that are ready for immediate use in your classroom
Build a Strong Foundation for Reading by Teaching Phonological Awareness Using Research-Based Methods
Learn dozens of activities to teach all nine areas of phonological awareness – word awareness, rhyme, syllable awareness, initial sounds, alliteration, onset/rime, phoneme segmentation, phoneme blending, and phoneme manipulation
Powerful Activities that Utilize Wonderful Children’s Literature as a Model for Students
Use captivating literature as a model for developing the phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language skills of your students … Show students the context of the skills they are learning
Receive a Comprehensive RTI Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive a comprehensive RTI resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar, including information on RTI, strategies, ideas, and examples you can use immediately with your preschool and kindergarten students

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Practical and realistic strategies for successful implementation of a three tier Response to Intervention model in pre-K and kindergarten
Dozens of quick, easy-to-use phonics and phonological awareness activities for use with the whole class or intervention groups
Easy-to-use strategies to enhance your whole group literacy instruction
Ideas to accelerate the literacy skills of your struggling students
Activities and practical strategies to strengthen small group instruction in tiers 2 and 3
How to go from a remediation model to an acceleration model to close the literacy gap
Fun strategies for teaching one-to-one matching
Activities for helping students develop phonological awareness
Methods for using nursery rhymes to teach key pre-reading skills
Creative ways to help students increase their vocabulary
Learn the developmental sequence of phonological awareness
Activities, tools and techniques using both oral and written language to stimulate children’s positive relationships with literacy
Many writing activities that may be used with students at all writing abilities in pre-K and kindergarten
Timesaving tips for creating a classroom where all students are successfully involved in listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Dozens of exciting children’s literature titles that are used as a springboard for effective literacy instruction
Classroom-tested mini-lessons to scaffold the literacy learning of young students
Highly effective activities that meet the needs of early and emergent readers and writers
Innovative ideas for building your students’ confidence and skills in reading and writing
Engaging and ready-to-use activities to enhance your current writing program
A RTI routine that teaches targeted skills in the context of reading

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As preschool and kindergarten teachers, we know that the students who walk through the doors of our classrooms each year will have vastly different literacy experiences. Some have been read to before they were born, while others have rarely experienced the pleasure of enjoying a good book. We know that to ensure the literacy success of all our students, it is critically important to assess their needs and strengths and provide the right kind of classroom instruction and intervention. To this end, Response to Intervention (RTI) is proving to be a highly effective way to support students who struggle with literacy skills before they fall too far behind.

I am excited to share with you how to implement RTI successfully in your preschool or kindergarten classroom. I will introduce you to a three tier RTI model and explain how to implement and manage it. I will also give you a wealth of practical ideas, strategies, tips, and tools that you can use immediately to work with all of your students, and especially with those who are struggling to learn early literacy skills. Our day together will be filled with easy-to-implement, classroom-tested activities that my students love – and yours will too.

Please join me for an engaging, fun and worthwhile day that will give you practical ideas and abundant resources for implementing RTI in your classroom. Rest assured that whether you are a veteran or a brand-new teacher just starting out, EVERYONE will walk away with many quick, easy and ready-to-use ideas for improving your students’ phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language skills.

I look forward to meeting each of you at the seminar and sharing my passion for early literacy with you!

Sincerely,
Angela Cameron

P.S. I have designed a special resource handbook just for this seminar, packed with dozens of innovative strategies, activities and mini-lessons that you can use immediately in your classroom.

Who Should Attend

Designed for educators serving preschool and kindergarten: Classroom Teachers, Intervention Specialists, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Literacy Coaches, ESL Teachers, and Administrators.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
You’ll receive an extensive resource handbook full of innovative, practical, easy-to-implement lessons designed specifically for pre-K and kindergarten classrooms. Included in the handbook are:

Suggested routines, specific to pre-K and kindergarten, for 20-minute intervention groups to help you maximize instructional time
An entire chapter devoted to the importance of family involvement, which includes many ideas for classroom or school-wide family engagement activities
Extensive bibliography of children’s literature for teaching literacy skills and strategies
Numerous teacher-friendly, classroom-tested lesson plans for teaching phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language

Meet and Share
This seminar provides an excellent opportunity to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in improving students’ success in early literacy development.

Consultation Available
Angela Cameron will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your program.

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