Helping Your Struggling Readers Become More Successful Readers: Targeted Interventions that Work! (Grades K-5) Presented by Sue Brady Outstanding Teacher, Reading Specialist and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades K 5 Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Assistants, Interventionists, and Administrators

• The best targeted intervention strategies for addressing reading difficulties in grades K-5
• Highly practical strategies to raise the rigor of your struggling readers in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
• Innovative, instructional approaches that you can use tomorrow that will accelerate the progress and build the stamina of your struggling readers
• Proven, ready-to-use techniques to give your students the specific interventions they need to close the achievement gap

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Helping struggling readers not just achieve but exceed more rigorous literacy standards is among the most significant challenges facing educators today! Do you work with students who are struggling readers and frequently wish that you could fix the reading problems of those at-risk students? Do you look for evidence-based, practical activities that will engage and motivate struggling readers? If you answered “yes”, this seminar was designed for you!

In this NEW seminar, outstanding reading specialist and national presenter Sue Brady will share practical, classroom-tested ways to help raise the rigor of your struggling readers. You will leave this seminar with dozens of research-based interventions that will engage, motivate and build the stamina of even your most reluctant readers. The entire day will be filled with powerful strategies that you can use tomorrow with the students who experience the greatest challenges in learning how to read.

Sue will show you how to make your reading lessons for struggling readers more rigorous and more effective without workbooks and worksheets, and the best part is that they can be implemented into any reading program as soon as you return to your classroom.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Integrate the Best, Current, Targeted Intervention Strategies to Increase Success for Struggling Readers
   Discover intervention strategies that increase success for struggling readers
2. Raise the Rigor of Students Who Struggle with Reading Skills
   Discover how to use the latest research to select the most effective interventions to help your struggling readers be more successful readers
3. Discover the Six Key Elements for Helping Struggling Readers Become More Proficient Readers
   Focus on the critical essentials to address the diverse needs of your struggling readers for maximum academic gain … No cost and low-cost essentials to strengthen your reading instruction for struggling readers
4. Highly Practical Strategies to Support Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency
   Engaging, easy-to-implement, hands-on strategies that support each of the five research-based components of increasing reading competency … Enhance your reading instruction for your struggling readers as soon as you return to your school
5. Strengthen the Stamina of Your Struggling K-5 Readers Using Differentiated Strategies
   Engaging, classroom-proven strategies that strengthen the critical reading skills of your struggling readers … Differentiate your reading instruction to accelerate the reading levels of your students who need extra support
6. Learn Practical Intervention Strategies and Techniques to Easily Integrate into Your Existing Reading Program
   Find out which scientifically research-based interventions can be easily incorporated into your existing reading program and that will work best with your struggling readers
7. Address Reading Difficulties with the Most Current Research and Hands-on Engaging Activities
   Research shows a need to identify struggling readers early … Help them develop their reading skills with classroom proven activities that are sure to excite and motivate even the most reluctant readers
8. Help Struggling Readers Experience Greater Success with Informational Text
   Learn classroom-proven ways to incorporate informational and nonfiction text into your classroom to increase your students’ achievement and meet your state standards
9. Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
   Sue Brady is an experienced primary teacher and outstanding reading specialist with extensive experience working with struggling readers … You will leave with a wide variety of proven strategies for immediate use in your reading instruction
10. Receive an Extensive Reading Resource Handbook
    Each seminar participant will receive a detailed resource handbook filled with dozens of strategies and ideas specifically designed for this seminar

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

• The best, current intervention strategies for helping struggling readers that align with your state standards
• Powerful ways to increase the rigor and success of your struggling K-5 readers
• Innovative, hands-on activities that motivate struggling readers and help them build greater stamina with more challenging text
• Practical applications of the most current research to address early reading problems
• Dozens of effective techniques to serve your at-risk readers and build self-confidence
• The key components of an effective reading program for struggling readers that can be implemented for low to no cost
• Innovative ways for differentiating reading instruction to better meet needs of struggling readers in grades K-5
• Innovative, interactive techniques to improve phonemic awareness and phonics
• Ready-to-use strategies to reach your most at-risk readers earlier and faster
• Interactive, motivating activities for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
• Practical, effective techniques to maximize comprehension skills to build the confidence of your struggling readers
• Creative, hands-on reading manipulatives that are inexpensive or free to make
• Proven activities and techniques to supplement and expand your existing reading program to better support struggling readers

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

During my many years as a primary teacher, I saw the frustrations and tears of struggling readers and became frustrated myself! How could I reach these students? As my desire to help them intensified, I knew what I had to do. I went back to school to become a reading specialist. And while the additional education helped me, I believe that I learned the most from my at-risk students.

I now work with struggling readers on a daily basis, and I see how they learn best: NOT by being bombarded with endless worksheets and workbook pages, but with choice, praise, encouragement and engaging, hands-on activities and interventions that appropriately challenge them.
During this fast-paced seminar, I will share dozens of classroom proven interventions, strategies and activities that increase rigor for struggling readers and are also motivating, fun and incorporate higher-level thinking! We will look at numerous, classroom-proven ideas for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension to entice even your most reluctant learners. I will also share ideas on how to more effectively differentiate lessons and activities. The best part is that the shared interventions are easy to implement and will raise the rigor for your struggling readers!

My goal for you is to leave this seminar motivated, energized and with a belief in yourself that you can increase the rigor and success for your struggling readers. You will leave with new intervention options that can easily be implemented in your existing reading program with little or no cost to you!

This seminar is designed to provide you with practical strategies and activities that are both classroom-based and research-driven. No one has time for lessons that aren’t best practice! I want you to have the opportunity to pick and choose the strategies and methods that work best with your students in your school.

I encourage you to join me and see how you can raise the rigor for your struggling readers and help them become successful.

Sincerely,
Sue Brady

P.S. Remember, all of these interventions and activities have been tested with my students! They are classroom-proven, motivating, practical, and easily implemented to use with struggling readers. I am confident that they will help lead your students to achieve literacy success and teach them to persist in becoming successful readers!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-5 Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Assistants, Interventionists, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive reading resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• Interventions and activities for struggling readers based on current research that are practical, highly motivating, challenging, and can be used immediately
• Tips and techniques for differentiating your reading lessons to accelerate learning and motivate your struggling readers
• Ideas to easily implement reading strategies into your classroom at little or no cost to you that enhance your current reading program
• Strategies and ideas that encourage the application of higher-order skills that add rigor to your lessons and boost the skills of your students
• Practical activities and techniques to supplement and expand your existing reading program to better support struggling readers and build their confidence

Meet and Share
This seminar provides participants a wonderful opportunity to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in strengthening the reading achievement of their struggling readers.

Consultation Available
Sue Brady will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own reading program for struggling readers.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

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