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 individual primary school teachers and educators providing learning support and intervention for primary school and high school students who are 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. Course Overview

    1. Welcome to Section 1: Understanding Reading Difficulties

    2. Overview and Downloads

    3. Understanding Reading Difficulties

    4. Stop and Reflect

    5. Proximal and Distal Causes of Reading Difficulties

    6. Alfie’s Case Study

    7. Stop and Reflect

    8. Professional Conversation (optional)

    9. 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!

About this course

  • 80 lessons
  • 180 days access
  • 1 hour per module, 1 new module each week. 8 hours over 8 weeks!

Professional learning, when and where it suits you!

You can register to complete this eight module on-demand professional learning as an individual learner.

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

Would you like to deliver Help me Read! in your team or school?

Help me Read! is also available for schools and clinics as team professional learning. Your team can complete the professional learning together - watching videos, completing activities, having facilitated discussions and following along with the workbook! Great for after school or team professional learning sessions.

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SPELD NSW Members access discounts

Members can access SPELD NSW Member Discounts to this self-paced professional learning by logging into the SPELD NSW Members Hub.

  • $325.00 – SPELD NSW Member Individual Registration
  • $1,700.00 – SPELD NSW Member School Team Registration

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