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RTI should be about using innovative methods that go to the source of reading difficulties and not just about meetings and paperwork. The key to effective RTI for struggling readers is that literacy is an auditory process, not a visual one.Reading decoding, fluency and comprehension difficulties have very little to do with written words and almost everything to do with spoken words. This is why many challenged readers struggle with phonics which focuses on letters and the visual aspects of reading. Reading relies on the same areas of the brain that process speech. Effective reading turns into meaningful speech in the brain. When an auditory approach is taken, students become natural readers in months, not years.
Reading difficulties are common in English because it is a most demanding spoken and written language. It requires exceptional spoken language skills including strong phonemic awareness, a highly refined auditory system and well-developed word retrieval for fluency. Difficulties in any of these areas often interfere with comprehension.
Dramatic progress results when specific speech processes are identified and speech-based interventions take place. This course will present a number of RTI-ready programs including Sound Reading, Fast ForWord®, Earobics®, Read Naturally and Rewards. Innovative methods for teaching phonics and decoding in weeks will be presented. Evidence-based comprehension strategies and the information presented can be used without the purchase of product.
OBJECTIVES
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Explain why reading intervention for all ages, starting with RTI, must include remediation of auditory, phonemic, and fluency skills to be effective
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Explain why English is the hardest language to learn to read using phonics
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Use simple, rapid, powerful, evidence-based interventions for decoding, fluency, and comprehension
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List the most effective reading comprehension strategies for students
OUTLINE
RTI for Reading Improvement (60 minutes)
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Four essential questions about reading instruction that frame RTI
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RTI for boosting student performance - not endless meetings and paperwork
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Reading - a problem with spoken or written word?
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English - an abnormal language that causes dyslexia
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Natural reading improvement by enhancing auditory and listening skills
Auditory Processing and Phonemic Awareness Interventions (30 minutes)
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Indentifying the core issues that limit response to intervention
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Auditory issues that prevent the development of phonemic awareness
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Every struggling post-primary reader has at least one auditory issue
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Reading activities that clarify the challenges of English
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Essential auditory activities that ground reading in speech
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Block manipulation, sound awareness, discrimination and sequencing
Phonemic Activities That Work With Slow Responders (15 minutes)
The Key To RTI: Change HOW as Much as WHAT You Teach (15 minutes)
RTI for Students Who Struggle With Phonics (60 minutes)
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Don't teach more phonics!
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Why some pick up phonics in weeks and others take years
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Activities to rapidly teach decoding
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Simple spelling RTI using "Three Ways" spelling method
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Moving from phonetic to authentic spelling
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Spelling flexibility - when letters and phonemes don't match
Assessing and Benchmarking Reading Accuracy (15 minutes)
RTI for Fluency Issues (90 minutes)
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What is the fundamental issue?
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Accuracy without fluency prolongs the agony
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Is it a fluency issue or a comprehension problem?
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Accessing and benchmarking fluency
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Rapid naming activities for simple and complex words
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"Too Easy" practice
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Quick reads and ending the struggle with leveled books
Simple RTI for Comprehension Difficulties (45 minutes)
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Boost listening and reading comprehension
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Why does so much comprehension instruction fall on deaf ears
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Making Bloom's higher order thinking skills work for RTI
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Three strategies for teachers when teaching comprehension
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Working memory and higher order thinking
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Six evidence-based comprehension strategies that work with RTI
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Eight language comprehension activities for spoken and printed words
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Four reasoning methods that drive comprehension
Planning an Intervention That Works for You and Your Students (15 minutes)
Summary, Final Questions & Feedback (15 minutes)
ABOUT COLLEEN HILL, M.A., CCC-SLP
Ms. Hill has provided speech/language services to people of all ages, with many different needs, due to learning disability, stroke, head injury, childhood aphasia, etc., in preschools, schools, rehabilitation centers, and skilled nursing facilities. Her special interest and experience of over 25 years is with middle and high school students with learning and language difficulties which impact both life and academic skills. Her program focus is on improving listening and speaking, with particular emphasis on Phonemic Awareness. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from SUNY at Plattsburgh, NY. She holds ASHA’s Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech/Language Pathology. She has held a Speech Pathology License in several states.
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Speech-Language Pathologists, Educators, School Psychologists
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