Helping Your Struggling Readers Succeed: Targeted Interventions that Work! (Grades 6-12) Presented by Amy Blakey Outstanding Secondary Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 Educators: English/Language Arts Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Interventionists, Special Education Staff, ELL Teachers, Title I Staff, and Administrators

• Highly targeted intervention strategies for addressing reading difficulties in grades 6-12
• Personalized reading plans to target individual student areas of strength and identify specific gaps in learning
• Powerful, timesaving tools to more accurately assess and determine the specific learning needs of your struggling readers
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ready-to-use interventions and strategies ideal for grades 6-12 struggling readers

Practical Ideas and Strategies

As a secondary educator, you have seen firsthand the devastating impact of reading struggles on students' confidence, motivation, and academic performance. You are not alone! In this NEW seminar, outstanding secondary educator Amy Blakey will share the best, practical strategies for helping your struggling readers succeed. Empower your secondary-level students with the latest targeted interventions for building their reading skills. Explore practical, research-backed targeted interventions for enhancing your instruction and better meeting the diverse needs of your students. Gain actionable strategies for identifying and addressing the root causes of reading struggles, ready-to-use resources and activities to build fluency and comprehension, and proven techniques for scaffolding your instruction to ensure struggling readers get back and stay on track.

Join Amy for an engaging, informative, and inspiring seminar that will leave you feeling empowered, motivated, and equipped to make a lasting positive impact on the lives of your struggling readers.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Strengthen Your Students' Key Reading Skills
   Discover how to use the latest research to select the most effective interventions to help your struggling readers be more successful
2. Highly Practical Strategies to Help Your Struggling Readers Meet Grade Level Expectations
   Engaging, easy-to-implement, hands-on strategies to support struggling readers as soon as you return to your school
3. Strengthen Struggling Readers' Stamina Using Differentiated Strategies
   Engaging, classroom-proven strategies for strengthening the critical reading skills of your struggling readers … Differentiate your reading instruction for students who need extra support
4. Use Targeted Interventions to Better Meet the Needs of Your Struggling Readers
   Learn to match specific, highly effective interventions to students in ways that will quickly improve their skills … Discover timesaving techniques to implement interventions designed to more rapidly close the reading gap
5. Boost Your Struggling Readers' Confidence and Skills
   Learn practical ways to accurately identify reading needs to increase students' engagement … Build on success, one step at a time, to strengthen your students' confidence
6. Minimize Negative Behavior by Increasing Reading Ability
   Recognize the signs of behavior that indicate a deficit in reading skills … Leave with strategies to increase reading ability and decrease negative behaviors
7. Elevate the Effectiveness of Reading Instruction Through Writing
   Discover proven strategies to integrate writing into reading interventions … Tips for targeting the individual needs of your students while still working with grade level content
8. Minimize Your Paperwork and Maximize Your Instructional Impact
   See quick, effective ways to monitor student progress throughout the intervention process … Receive a wealth of easy-to-use documentation resources that work!
9. Use Technology to Strengthen Struggling Readers' Progress
   Increase your instructional power with struggling readers using free, web-based technology … Gain tips and tools for utilizing technology that will help support your struggling readers
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook to Help Struggling Readers
    You will receive a detailed digital resource handbook filled with dozens of strategies and ideas you can immediately implement

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, current targeted intervention strategies for helping your struggling readers and those who have fallen behind
• Innovative, hands-on activities that motivate struggling readers and help them build greater stamina with more challenging text
• How to recognize the signs of behavior that indicate a deficit in reading skills
• Innovative ways to differentiate reading instruction to better meet struggling readers' needs
• Ready-to-use strategies to personalize targeted interventions that work
• Effective, practical techniques that maximize comprehension and fluency skills, building your struggling readers' self-confidence
• How to target your reading instruction to address struggling readers at their level
• Methods to motivate and engage even your most reluctant readers
• Proven strategies to maximize your limited instructional time
• Effective ways to link informal assessments and instruction to scaffold student learning
• Quick-and-easy progress monitoring techniques to effectively document your interventions
• How to identify and address the root causes of reading struggles using targeted interventions
• Receive a treasure trove of ready-to-use resources and activities designed to help your struggling readers

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Do you remember the spark in a student's eyes when they finally grasped a challenging text? As a veteran teacher and reading consultant, I've lived for those moments. But I've also felt the frustration of watching struggling readers fall further behind, their confidence dwindling with each passing day.

For years I've worked with students who view reading as an insurmountable obstacle. I've seen the toll it takes on their self-esteem and academic progress. But I've also witnessed remarkable transformations when the right strategies are applied.

That's why I'm thrilled to invite you to my upcoming seminar!

In this engaging session, we'll explore:

• The best targeted intervention strategies for helping grades 6-12 struggling readers
• Creative ways to engage struggling readers and boost their confidence
• Easy-to-incorporate methods to differentiate reading instruction and better meet struggling readers' needs
• Innovative approaches based on current brain science to address the knowledge gap and increase vocabulary critical to secondary success
• And much, much more!

Join me for a day full of the most effective instructional strategies for helping struggling grades 6-12 readers succeed. You'll leave with targeted interventions you can use immediately. I'm excited to share my expertise with you and to help you make a meaningful impact on your students' reading lives.

I look forward to meeting you and sharing in our collective mission to make a difference, one reader at a time. Don't miss this opportunity to take your teaching practice to the next level!

Sincerely,
Amy Blakey

P.S. Join me and learn how to transform your struggling readers into confident readers. I guarantee you'll walk away with practical, proven strategies you can implement right away.

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 Educators: English/Language Arts Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Interventionists, Special Education Staff, ELL Teachers, Title I Staff, and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 49 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

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

• Current, research-based interventions and activities that are designed to be practical, challenging, and highly motivating for struggling readers in your secondary ELA classroom
• Practical and highly motivating interventions and activities for struggling readers, based on current research and designed to challenge your students to reach their full potential
• Tips and techniques for differentiating your reading lessons to accelerate learning and motivate your struggling readers
• Practical activities and techniques to supplement and expand your existing reading program to better support struggling readers and build their confidence
• Detailed, ready-to-use lesson plans that seamlessly integrate research-based interventions and activities, complete with step-by-step instructions and assessment tools

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
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in using targeted interventions to help struggling readers succeed.

Consultation Available
Amy Blakey will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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