Free Science of Reading Summer School Lessons and Training
How do I qualify for the FREE digital lessons?
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You must be an educator
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Checkout using a district email address - our system licenses by district/school.
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March 30, we'll begin sending registrants links to the Science of Reading Summer School training.
- May 15, for those who have completed the training, we'll send credentials to your district email so that you can access your FULLY DIGITAL Science of Reading Summer Schools lessons. Your lessons will include:
- Digital Teachers Guide PDF
- Digital Teacher Presentation Online Tool
- Student Reading Playgrounds
- Digital Guided Student Practice Book PDF
We continue to see a pervasive literacy crisis that was compounded by the pandemic. Really Great Reading can’t stand by and watch as readers fall further and further behind. The crisis is real, but if we work together with educators, we can all help mitigate the impact. Summer school is the perfect time to intervene and make important gains. 
Why Are They Free?
What Is Included?
- 2 hours of professional development
- 75 minutes of implementation training
- DIGITAL instructional lessons - 5 weeks of lessons
Teacher resources include:
- The Digital Teacher’s Guide: Includes daily scripted lesson plans and a research-filled appendix. This digital 240-page lesson plan PDF will guide you through each easy-to-follow lesson.
- The Online Teacher Presentation Tool: Includes animations, posters, and a treasure trove of supplemental resources. Helping the teacher deliver concise and vibrant lessons, and featuring new Guest Teacher Videos, this tool is your co-teacher in the classroom!
- Professional Learning Courses: This comprehensive package wouldn't be complete without Really Great Reading's exceptional professional eLearning courses. Each package contains three hours of upfront, professional learning to ensure you can teach lessons with fidelity and confidence. The package also features incremental professional development, to assist teachers as their knowledge grows.
- The Diagnostic Assessments: In just 5-7 minutes, Really Great Reading's diagnostic decoding assessments answer these key questions: Which students are struggling with decoding? What types of words are they struggling with?
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Access to the Grouping Matrix: A complimentary, web-based, password-protected, secure student data management interface. The Grouping Matrix enables you to group students (K-12) according to the type and depth of their decoding difficulties using data from grade-level Oral Reading Fluency passages (such as DIBELS, AIMSWeb, Six Minute Solutions, Read Naturally, EasyCBM) and our complimentary diagnostic assessments. Who can be grouped together? Which instructional package (Emerging, Developing, Advancing) is right for them?
Student resources include:
- The Digital Student Guided Practice Packet PDF: Like our student workbooks, these PDF packets allow teachers to provide students with guided practice so that they can develop accuracy and fluency with the skills they are learning.
- Letter Tile Freeplay: A comprehensive set of virtual phonics manipulatives that help students understand the relationships between phonemes and graphemes. This tool helps students read and spell words, fostering a deep and rich understanding of the alphabetic code.
- Reading Playgrounds: An independent practice portal that facilitates independent, asynchronous engagement and enables word-learning opportunities that promote mastery and automaticity—at the pace and extent they need.
We Have Three Summer School Levels!
Three programs in one: Emerging, Developing, and Advancing Readers! This summer we’re offering three levels of instruction that are Science of Reading aligned and will help students build the knowledge and the skills they need to become strong orthographic mappers.
Emerging - Science of Reading SORing to Summer Success
This level of instruction helps develop automaticity with the foundational skills students need to jump-start their journey to strong orthographic mapping and fluent reading. Students will:
- Solidify their letter knowledge
- Build fluency with high-frequency words
- Develop basic phonemic skills (isolation, segmentation, and blending)
- Learn how to read and spell words like tap, jet, spin, and fresh
Developing - Science of Reading SORing to Summer Success
- Review letter-sound relationships and become fluent with high-frequency words
- Gain advanced phonemic skills (deletion, addition, and substitution)
- Read and spell complex single-syllable words, build automaticity with complex Closed Syllable words, and develop strategies for reading multi-syllabic words
Advancing - Science of Reading SORing to Summer Success
Is Training Included? What Will I Learn?
