Helping Your Struggling Readers Who Have Fallen Behind (Grades 3-6)

Presented by Annemarie Johnson
Outstanding Teacher and International Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff, Instructional Assistants, Interventionists, Title I Staff, and Administrators

The most effective, brain-friendly reading instruction strategies to catch up your students who have fallen behind in reading
Proven instructional and intervention strategies that will support your struggling readers in achieving greater success
Dozens of practical ideas, activities and tips for accelerating progress for students who have fallen behind in reading
Receive an extensive digital resource handbook and online special resources packed with targeted reading interventions, instructional tools, and resources you can use right away to catch up your reading students

Practical Ideas and Strategies

How can you provide targeted, engaging reading instruction in the face of a growing gap in your students' reading achievement? Do you have too many grades 3-6 students who have fallen behind in reading? If so, you won't want to miss this seminar by outstanding teacher Annemarie Johnson. The focus of this seminar is on the most effective, innovative instructional strategies designed specifically for catching up students who have fallen behind in reading. Learn practical ways to pinpoint the myriad ways a reader might struggle and explore dozens of effective strategies and tips for better meeting your readers' individual learning needs. Discover innovative, ready-to-use strategies designed to build independence and motivate your struggling readers to read more.

You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with effective, use-tomorrow ideas, materials, and strategies specifically for helping catch up your students who have fallen behind in reading.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Help Your Struggling Readers Who Have Fallen Behind to Catch Up
Accelerate the learning of your grades 3-6 reading students … Expand your personal repertoire of teaching tools to help your students who have fallen behind in reading to catch up
Lessen Your Students' Reading Skills Gap
Use targeted interventions to meet students where they are and move them toward grade level standards … Lessen the skills gap with timesaving, easy-to-use techniques perfect for your grades 3-6 reading students
Discover the Secrets to Making Your Reading Instruction Stick
Explore strategies for making your literacy instruction more explicit, engaging, and permanent … Learn "stickiness principles" that will work well for all your learners
Empower Readers by Tapping into Current Brain Research
Learn what the latest brain research is teaching us about why students struggle with reading … Discover the connection between strong phonemic awareness and phonics skills, and proficient reading … Leave with slight shifts that can dramatically impact student learning
Expand Your Small Group Instruction Repertoire
Expand your small group intervention options and learn how to effectively implement flexible small groups … Get started planning a variety of small groups for reading engagement, word study, fluency, and comprehension
Optimize Literacy Instruction for Your Struggling Readers
Learn dozens of engaging strategies to dramatically increase the impact of your reading instruction … Help your struggling readers achieve greater success
Leverage the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Discover practical ways to optimally scaffold and support your struggling readers … Effectively model what proficient readers do … Make best use of high-impact coaching strategies to accelerate struggling readers' success
Effectively Differentiate for Students' Specific Learning Needs
Help your students who have fallen behind by responsively addressing grade-level reading goals … Discover timesaving, practical tools and resources for differentiating to support students' unique learning needs
Accelerate Progress for Struggling Readers Using Varied Approaches
Take a comprehensive approach to tackling reading deficiencies … Use a variety of methods and a combination of whole group, small group, and individualized instruction to meet students' needs
Receive an Extensive Reading Instruction Digital Resource Handbook and Special Online Access
You'll receive an extensive reading instruction digital resource handbook, packed with targeted reading interventions and a wealth of strategies that can be implemented immediately in any instructional setting … Receive special online access to Annemarie's growing library of digital resources – designed specifically for this seminar

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Innovative instructional strategies to catch up your students who have fallen behind in reading
Numerous ideas, strategies, and demonstrations to strengthen and enrich your current reading program
Step-by-step ways to assess struggling readers and create small group intervention plans to address individual needs
The secret to making reading instruction more explicit for your readers who have fallen behind
How to anticipate the variety of ways readers struggle and to proactively differentiate your instruction accordingly
Successful techniques for making in-the-head reading processes visible for struggling readers
What current brain research says about struggling reader gaps and how to fill them
Practical tips for breaking reading skills down into step-by-step strategies to accelerate progress for students who have fallen behind
Strategies for shoring up foundational skills including phonics, reading fluency, and literal comprehension
Outstanding professional resources and websites perfect for strengthening your reading instruction for struggling readers
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas – ways to target and address struggling readers at their level, how to create differentiated small group instruction plans, the secrets to make your reading instruction stick, methods to motivate and engage your most reluctant readers, and more!

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Meeting the needs of our striving readers has always been a daunting task. Catching up students who have fallen behind is certainly a challenge, but it is NOT insurmountable! Given the high-quality, targeted, and differentiated instruction they need, struggling readers can get back on track.

That is what this day is all about! The knowledge, strategies, activities, and assessments you'll gather in this seminar will help you teach your struggling students to be more successful readers.

During our day together I will share powerful, effective strategies that will empower both you and your grades 3-6 students. Some of the topics we will explore include:

Assessing the ways in which readers struggle (they don't all struggle in the same way!)
Creating powerful differentiated instruction that meets the needs of all learners
Making best use of a gradual release of responsibility model to scaffold and move striving readers toward independence
Ensuring our reading instruction is explicit, engaging, and will stick!

It is my goal that you leave this seminar with renewed enthusiasm and a passion for meeting the needs of all readers, but especially those who have fallen behind. I hope you will join me for a day that promises to be dynamic, fast-paced, and packed with practical ideas!

Sincerely,
Annemarie Johnson

P.S. You will leave this seminar energized and armed with practical strategies to use immediately with your own grades 3-6 students!

Who Should Attend

Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff, Instructional Assistants, Interventionists, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Reading Instruction Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Proven instructional and intervention strategies that will support your struggling readers in achieving greater success
Dozens of ideas, activities, tips for accelerating progress for students who have fallen behind
Engaging ways to scaffold instruction for struggling readers through explicit teaching, modeling, and gradual release of responsibility
A variety of assessments to determine specifically how your grades 3-6 readers struggle
Highly effective tips for motivating and inspiring struggling and reluctant readers
Receive special access to online resources packed with targeted reading interventions

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 with Other Educators
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in catching up struggling readers who have fallen behind.

Consultation Available
Annemarie Johnson will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own grades 3-6 reading program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo 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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