Time in Text: Differentiating Instruction for Intermediate Students Struggling With Word Recognition
August 27, 2024
5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m. ET
Join speaker Heidi Anne Mesmer for an insightful webinar that translates the research on one of the most pressing challenges in education: supporting intermediate grade students who have below–grade-level word recognitions skills. When helping students who have significant challenges with word recognition, teachers are caught between two goals: (a) keeping text complexity high for comprehension instruction and (b) ensuring students are spending time in text and recognizing words themselves. This webinar provides practical, research-based strategies to help educators effectively mediate word recognition in grade-level texts or differentiate texts to ensure decoding practice.
Participants will gain the following:
- An Understanding of the Challenge: Gain insights into the dilemma faced by teachers who must provide grade-level content to students who are challenged by the word recognition demands of such content.
- Research-Based Mediation Techniques: Learn about various approaches to mediate word recognition in challenging texts, including when and how to scaffold decoding to maximize student benefits.
- Research-Based Text Differentiation Methods: Learn about methods for differentiating texts to ensure that all students spend substantive time in text and recognizing words themselves.
- Practical Applications: Explore research-based instructional routines such as fluency-oriented reading instruction (FORi) and the use of text sets to support struggling readers.
Who should register: School-based educators, administrators, teacher educators, and preservice teachers
Your registration gives you access to both the live event and the on-demand recording, which will be available to you through February 27, 2025.
Registration: $29.00 for members | $69.00 nonmembers (includes annual membership)
Special pricing is available for groups of 5+, students, and individuals in countries with developing economies. Contact customerservice@reading.org for details.
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