Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers
On-demand Individual Learning
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.
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.
Welcome to Help Me Read!
Acknowledgment of Country
Course Overview
Welcome to Section 1: Understanding Reading Difficulties
Overview and Downloads
Understanding Reading Difficulties
Stop and Reflect
Proximal and Distal Causes of Reading Difficulties
Alfie’s Case Study
Stop and Reflect
Professional Conversation (optional)
Section 1 Complete!
Welcome to Section 2: Tools for Reading intervention
Overview and Downloads
Assessments
Stop and Reflect
Scope and Sequence and Teaching Resources
Principles of Learning
Stop and Reflect
Professional Conversations (optional)
Section 2 Complete!
Welcome to Section 3: Developing Phonics and Word Reading Skills
Overview and Downloads
Blending Difficulties
Stop and Reflect
Explicit Phonics Instruction
Stop and Reflect
Independent practice activities
Stop and Reflect
Professional Conversation
Section 3 Complete!
Welcome to Section 4: Supporting Students to Learn Irregular Words
Overview and Downloads
Handwriting
Stop and reflect
Understanding and Teaching Irregular Words
Stop and Reflect
Professional Conversation
Section 4 Complete!
Welcome to Section 5: Word Attack Strategies for Reading Longer Words
Overview and Downloads
Morphology Basics
A Basic Morphology Lesson
Stop and Reflect
Advanced Morphology
Activity: Using the word matrix
Stop and Reflect
Professional Conversation
Section 5 Complete!
You can register to complete this eight module on-demand professional learning as an individual learner.
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