Webinars and Recorded Conference Presentations

Click on the titles below to access free webinars and recorded conference presentations by Readsters:

• • Reading Rockets Videos Demonstrating Foundational Skills Instruction
    1 hour, 15 minutes – In 2019, Reading Rockets, launched a video series called “Looking at Reading Interventions”. The series includes 18 videos in which Linda Farrell demonstrates evidence-based instruction for foundational reading skills and discusses various aspects of reading, ranging from The Simple View of Reading to challenges in bringing reading interventions to schools. All 18 videos are available at ReadingRockets.org.

 

• • Using Reading Rockets Videos for Professional Development
    1 hour, 14 minutes – Noel Gunther (WETA – Reading Rockets) and Linda Farrell (Readsters) discuss how to use the Reading Rockets videos for professional development.

 

• • Fixing Common Confusions
    27 minutes – Michael Hunter explains how to use Readsters’ Practice Packets to fix common letter and word confusions, including b d confusion.

 

• • Lose the Rules: Reading and Spelling Multi-Syllable Words Made Easy
    1 hour, 9 minutes – Michael Hunter teaches a new approach to reading and spelling multi-syllable words that doesn’t require students to memorize syllable division rules.

 

• • Help! My Student is Stuck at Sound-by-Sound Reading
    1 hour, 19 minutes – Michael Hunter explains how to move students who are stuck at sound-by-sound reading to fluent, whole-word reading. He examines the nature of the problem and teaching strategies to overcome it.

 

• • The Simple View of Reading
    60 minutes – This webinar explains how this important research can be used to guide assessment and provide more effective instruction for struggling readers.

 

• • Using Decodable Books and Early Leveled Readers Appropriately for Beginning Readers
    40 minutes – This webinar explores how decodable and leveled readers differ, and provides recommendations for using them so that early readers develop the habits that strong readers use.

 

• • How and When to Use Decodable Readers for Maximum Effectivness (2022 PaTTAN literacy Symposium)
    60 minutes – Teachers often ask us how to include decodable readers during phonics instruction. This session answers that question.

 

• • What EXACTLY Is the Difference between Balanced Literacy and Structured Literacy and Why Does It Matter?
    90 minutes – This video of a conference session examines the differences between and research behind balanced literacy and explicit, systematic early reading instruction.

 

• • Early Reading Instruction in Niger
    5:58 minutes – Mother tongue reading instruction for children in Niger is similar to teaching early readers in the USA. Teach letter names and letter sounds, followed by systematic phonics instruction and ample practice. Assess what the children know, and start instruction there.

 

• • Learning to Read as an Adult
    — David Clemons – 14:12 minutes
    — Sandra Johnson – 5:07 minutes
    Listen to the stories of two Adult Literacy Learners. They describe the consequences of not learning to read as a child, and the journey to becoming a reader as an adult.

 

• Common Core Reading Foundational Skills: What’s There and What’s Missing?
  45 minutes – This webinar examines the CCSS Reading Foundational Skills and how well they address the needs of early decoding, spelling, and fluency. Teachers receive specific suggestions for adding skills that are missing and for assessing whether students have these critical foundational reading skills.

For additional information about Readsters’ professional development services, please call us at 703.535.7355 or email us at info@readsters.com.