Help Me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers

Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers

On-demand Team Learning

Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers

In this on-demand 8 module course you will learn about a range of evidence-based strategies to support struggling readers.

On-demand professional learning designed for schools or clinics to complete as a team!

Ideal for primary schools, high schools, learning support teams or intervention clinics supporting students experiencing reading difficulties.

What are the strategies to support students who are reading words inaccurately as compared to those with word-reading automaticity difficulties?
What about those students with reading fluency difficulties?
This course will give you some specific strategies to help you provide targeted support to your students with reading difficulties.

Course Outline

Access 8 on-demand professional learning modules with videos, case-studies, reflection activities, downloadable resources and readings, and with optional take-away professional conversation resources to bring your learning from the course to your context.

1. Welcome to Help Me Read!
2. Acknowledgment of Country
3. Facilitator Information and Resources
1. Welcome to Section 1: Understanding Reading Difficulties
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Understanding Reading Difficulties
4. Proximal and Distal Causes of Reading Difficulties
5. Alfie’s Case Study
6. Stop and Reflect
7. Professional Conversation (optional)
8. Section 1 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 2: Tools for Reading intervention
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Assessments
4. Stop and Reflect
5. Scope and Sequence and Teaching Resources
6. Principles of Learning
7. Stop and Reflect
8. Professional Conversations (optional)
9. Section 2 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 3: Developing Phonics and Word Reading Skills
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Blending Difficulties
4. Stop and Reflect
5. Explicit Phonics Instruction
6. Stop and Reflect
7. Independent practice activities
8. Stop and Reflect
9. Professional Conversation
10. Section 3 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 4: Supporting Students to Learn Irregular Words
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Handwriting
4. Stop and reflect
5. Understanding and Teaching Irregular Words
6. Stop and Reflect
7. Professional Conversation
8. Section 4 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 5: Word Attack Strategies for Reading Longer Words
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Morphology Basics
4. A Basic Morphology Lesson
5. Stop and Reflect
6. Advanced Morphology
7. Activity: Using the word matrix
8. Stop and Reflect
9. Professional Conversation
10. Section 5 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 6: Repeated Reading with Decodable Text
2. Overview and Downloads
3. How to use decodable texts
4. Error Correction
5. Planning an intervention session using a scope and sequence
6. Stop and Reflect
7. Professional Conversation: Intervention Planning
8. Section 6 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 7: Fluency Instruction Beyond Decodable Texts
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Scaffolded Repeated Reading
4. Activity: Words and Phrases
5. Phrase Marking
6. Activity: Phrase Marking
7. Repeated Reading of Different Sentence Structures
8. Activity: Sentences
9. Stop and Reflect
10. Professional Conversation
11. Section 7 Complete!
1. Welcome to Section 8: Supporting Comprehension and Vocabulary
2. Overview and Downloads
3. Vocabulary Instruction
4. Stop and Reflect
5. Summarising and Questioning
6. Activity: Generating Questions
7. Planning a Session
8. Stop and Reflect
9. Professional Conversation
10. Section 8 Complete!
11. Course Evaluation
12. Do you want to continue the conversation?

About this course

79 lessons
180 days access
Teams of up to 25 can take part in Team Learning (with a per-head fee for additional team members)
1 hour per module, 1 new module each week. 8 hours over 8 weeks!

Professional learning, when and where it suits you!

School and clinics can register to complete this eight module on-demand professional learning as a team.

If your school needs an invoice for payment please contact us.

$1,890.00

Team Learning - Non-Members

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Team Professional Learning

A great solution for flexible and accessible professional learning in your school or clinic!

Your course facilitor gets access to the full version of the course and up to 25 participants get access to all the course and resource downloads to enable them to take part in the team learning!

Flexible In-House Learning

Team Professional Learning is an ideal solution for twilight and after-school professional learning sessions or team meetings!

Schedule learning for when it suits you! Give your whole team access to professional learning. Team members who miss a session can easily catch up.
Quality Learning

Evidence-based, practical and quality professional learning from SPELD NSW that you can apply directly in your context!

Engage in context-specific conversations and adapt the new learnings as you complete the course as a team.
Affordable and Easy to Implement

Team Professional Learning comes with all the resources you need to implement it in your context. Simply select a facilitator from your team and let us do the rest!

Access affordable and flexible learning that you can complete at your own pace!

Would you like to complete Help me Read! as an individual learner?

Help me Read! is also available to complete as an individual learner. You can register to complete this on-demand course when it suits you to help you support struggling readers - watch videos, complete activities, review case studies and follow along with the workbook!

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