Science of Reading Webinars
Engaging, on-demand professional development that bridges research and classroom practice
Keep professional learning consistent and focused across your system. These sessions offer targeted support, built-in check-ins, and instructional strategies rooted in the Science of Reading.
- Aligned onboarding for teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators
- Built-in check-ins and progress monitoring
- Support for ongoing implementation fidelity
- Boost educator confidence with practical modeling and tools
Administrators, join us for this complimentary, concentrated, and engaging one-hour webinar that delves into the groundbreaking research and practical applications behind the Science of Reading.
This Science of Reading for Administrators course will:
- Unpack key principles that impact student growth system-wide
- Identify red flags and roadblocks in your implementation
- Explore research-backed practices for sustained literacy improvement
Coaching for Success: Transforming Literacy Instruction Together
Really Great Reading’s "Coach’s Corner" webinar series training tailored for coaches and administrators to enhance their ability to support teachers. Focused on equipping coaches with the tools and strategies to lead their reading teams and drive better literacy success, this webinar series will support coaches and administrators with:
- Dive into the research and guiding principles behind handwriting and the Science of Reading.
- Emphasize the importance of explicit, systematic instruction to build handwriting fluency and support literacy growth.
- Set the stage for stronger instructional decision-making by understanding the “why” behind effective handwriting practices.
- Zero in on how to spot red flags in handwriting instruction and recognize their impact on student progress.
- Unpack the instructional shifts needed to address gaps and strengthen student learning.
- Provide clear, actionable strategies to optimize handwriting instruction for stronger literacy outcomes.
- Understand the research and guiding principles behind phonemic awareness instruction
- Showcase effective activities to facilitate educators' ability to enhance literacy development.
- Learn how to identify red flags in phonemic awareness instruction
- Understand its implications for student learning
- Get the skills to implement effective remediation strategies to optimize literacy instruction outcomes
This series focuses on the impact of oral language and the critical role of screening and remediation. Its goal is to enhance the expertise of coaches and literacy leaders by equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively observe and evaluate key aspects of language instruction. Participants will learn how to identify specific steps to improve oral language skills for all students.
Understand the research and guiding principles behind oral language as a fundamental component of literacy learning and the Science of Reading movement
- Learn how to identify root causes of oral language delays and impairments
- Begin to identify oral language gaps with a practical and easy to use screening tool
- Gain instructional strategies and the coaching moves designed to support effective classroom implementation
This session focuses on defining Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), identifying data needs, and aligning support tiers. Its goal is to build leaders' and coaches' capacity to design and support student-centered systems. Participants will consider current barriers to MTSS implementation and learn about free, school-based solutions. Lastly, participants will reflect on current MTSS practices and plan next steps to optimize school resources.
- Define MTSS and its role in supporting diverse student needs
- Identify key data points to drive decision making
- Align support tiers for maximum impact
- Recognize common implementation challenges and explore free school-based solutions
- Develop actionable next steps to optimize resources and improve student outcomes
Empower your students to tackle multi-syllabic words with confidence and clarity! Join our four-part live webinar series to demystify decoding longer words to better decode and spell with ease.
- Explore the importance of phonemic awareness and syllable types as essential prerequisites for decoding
- Understand how single-syllable conventions form the building blocks for reading big words
- Gain insights into decoding, orthographic mapping, and why these skills are vital for literacy development
- Explore the power of decoding words with closed syllables for improved fluency
- Learn practical techniques to teach the schwa
- Help students master open syllables
- Extend your students’ skills with efficient, research-backed strategies that build mastery
- Explore the power of closed and open syllables as a foundation for tackling complex words
- Learn effective methods for identifying and teaching the elusive schwa sound
- Gain confidence in introducing additional syllable types, including r-controlled and vowel-consonant-e
- Strategies to ensure your emerging readers will establish firm foundations in the subskills that lead to strong decoding and fluent reading
- Research-aligned techniques to teach phoneme play, letter-sound relationships, encoding decoding, onset rhyme, and rhyming
- The how, the what, and the why of research-aligned strategies and best practices
