January 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Free
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Using Decodable Text to Create Targeted Strategy Groups
A Free Webinar for Educators and Literacy Advocates
📅 Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10 AM – 11 AM MST
💻 Location: Live Online (Registration Required)
💵 Cost: Free
📚 Professional Development: 1 CEU hour available
Are you looking for effective ways to personalize instruction and meet the needs of your K-2 students?
Join us for an interactive and insightful webinar with Michelle Wind, a dyslexia specialist and experienced reading interventionist. In this session, you’ll discover how to use decodable texts and progress-monitoring data to build targeted strategy groups that improve literacy outcomes.
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, literacy advocate, or pre-service educator, this session will equip you with practical tools and a framework for small-group instruction grounded in Structured Literacy principles.
Session Description
Learn how to analyze data from decodable progress monitoring passages to set specific goals for K-2 general education students. This session will guide educators in creating and implementing effective strategy groups based on identified learning targets for both Tier 1 instruction and small-group settings.
What You’ll Gain:
- A step-by-step framework for small-group instruction.
- Strategies to maximize student growth using connected text and systematic instruction.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this webinar, participants will:
- Know how to administer and interpret informal diagnostic assessments to pinpoint student strengths, instructional needs, and areas for growth in:
- Phonics and application of introductory and advanced phonics to word reading.
- Fluency and comprehension in oral passage reading.
- Automatic recognition of high-frequency words.
- Understand how to apply structured language and literacy teaching principles, including explicit, systematic, cumulative, and teacher-directed instruction. Using practical examples, participants will learn how to provide practice with connected text by leveraging decodable text aligned with phonics patterns. Strategies for progressing students to less-controlled text as they internalize concepts will also be explored, ensuring effective application in K-2 classrooms.
Audience Level
- Beginner
Who Should Attend?
- Pre-Service, Early Childhood, and Elementary Educators
- Families, Community Members, and Literacy Advocates
Professional Development Credit
One Continuing Education (CE) hour will be offered to educators seeking certificate renewal.
- Requirements: Attend the live webinar and submit the CEU Reflection Form.
- Cost: $0 for IDA Members | $5 for Non-Members.
- Certificates Issued: By February 15, 2025.
About the Speaker
Michelle Wind, Dyslexia Specialist, CERI Certified Structured Literacy Interventionist, OG-TT, M.A.Ed
Michelle has been an educator for over 20 years. She started her teaching career in the primary grades. For the past ten years, she has worked as an RTI reading interventionist in kindergarten through fifth grade. Michelle is a Certified Dyslexia Specialist and an Orton Gillingham Teacher Trainer at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She also works with the University of LaVerne’s Center for Neurodiversity by developing and delivering their Orton Gillingham Teacher Training programs. Currently, Michelle serves as the Vice President of IDA New Jersey.
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