How to Teach Reading to Low-Achieving 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th Graders
Grade Level - 3-5
Length – 3 hours OR 6 hours

Learn how to teach from the beginning to ensure your students are getting the basics of reading.  You will return to your classroom from this fast-paced and fun seminar with the knowledge and instructional strategies you need to begin to turn reading failure into reading success for all your students, especially your struggling readers.

You will learn how to incorporate the ten essential elements of reading success into your existing program.  When you leave this outstanding workshop, you will be able to:

• Meet the needs of the wide range of reading abilities in your classroom without adding stress to your day
• Ensure continuous progress for fluent and struggling readers alike by enhancing your current reading program
• Increase comprehension and word attack skills
• Increase reading skills by utilizing outstanding children’s literature (fiction and non-fiction)

Mastery of grade-level content-area curriculum has always been the goal for instructing each student in the classroom setting, regardless of the diverse instructional levels of its members.  Unfortunately, the material continues to be watered down for the struggling learners, creating additional work and time for classroom teachers who think they are doing the best for these students by trying to “catch them up” in separate groups.  These teachers may even report significant growth.  However, when faced with the state standardized tests of achievement, students who are never exposed to the grade-appropriate material fare altogether too poorly because the content is virtually foreign to them.  Participants of this workshop will learn how to change the “how” we teach, not the “what” we teach, by planning consistent, multi-level activities in reading, language arts, and math support, as well as how to engage low-achieving students.

Recently, there has been an explosion of brain research written with educational application.  Educators are finding out now that much of what we do in our classrooms may not be compatible with how the brain learns.

This workshop will help educators understand the brain and how the mind learns, with particular emphasis on classroom application.  Participants will learn brain-compatible instructional practices, classroom environmental considerations, the role of emotions in learning, and ways to help students remember essential skills.

Come prepared to learn dozens of ideas on how to maximize learning while understanding the magnificent three- pound universe inside our heads—our brains.