95 PERCENT GROUP

KILPATRICK WEBINAR SERIES

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Webinar #1: Rethinking Phonological Awareness

For at least ten years, educators have followed a widely-held practice of teaching and assessing phoneme segmentation as the top skill to be mastered before the end of first grade. Yet, according to Kilpatrick (2015), the most important phonemic awareness skill for word recognition may be higher on the continuum. Have we been stopping too early in our assessments?

Watch this webinar to see what 95 Percent Group recommends for teaching and monitoring the acquisition of phonological awareness skills up the continuum so that phoneme manipulation skills (addition, deletion and substitution) are mastered.

Webinar #2: Orthographic Mapping is a Critical Skill for Learning New Words

Kilpatrick (2015) and other researchers suggest that good readers recognize so many words by sight they rarely need to employ phonics skills. Orthographic mapping is essential for making the connection between sounds and letters.

In this webinar, Dr. Hall demonstrates effective instructional practices that help students more efficiently learn to read unfamiliar words and add them to the bank of words that are recognized effortlessly upon sight.

Webinar #3: Helping Older Students Master Phonemic Manipulation Skills

Given that phonemic manipulation skills are critical to word learning to read unfamiliar words, how do we teach these skills to older students?

Teachers need strategies to work with students in second grade and above who have not mastered phoneme manipulation. The instructional practices will not look like the PA that is taught in kindergarten. In this webinar, Dr. Hall shares tips, explicit instructional strategies, and procedures for teaching phoneme manipulation skills to students beyond K-1.

PBS ONLINE LEARNING

Using Shared Reading to Teach and Engage All Readers

Course Description:

Shared Reading is a like a gift—a big, wide, colorful umbrella which can hold under it so many opportunities for reading instruction. This self-paced course will help you transform your classroom reading community, while allowing individual learners to make steady growth in many aspects of their own reading development. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of this powerful teaching strategy, all while using our template and your own carefully selected text to develop a unique, week-long Shared Reading plan for your classroom. Throughout the course, you’ll observe other teachers in action, share ideas in a discussion forum, and get feedback from your peers. Everyone in the course will add his or her work to a resource bank which all participants will have access to for one year. This course promises to power up your instructional strategies while building joy and excitement in your young readers!

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