Scaffold Students’ Reading of Grade Level Texts while Supporting Decoding, Fluency Skills, and Comprehension Grades 2-3

Jan 13, 2027 - May 5, 2027

2-3

$600

Online via Zoom

Dates: 1/13/2027, 3/03/2027, 5/5/2027 Grades: 2-3 Venue: Online via Zoom Time: 9:00am - 2:30pm ET (with a 45 minute break for lunch) Presenter(s): TBA Early Bird Discount Price: $480 (Until September 1, 2026) Regular Price: $600

Course Overview:

This course equips participants with research-based strategies to deepen students’ foundational skill development and comprehension. Participants will learn to lead instruction that scaffolds student access to grade-level texts, allowing for the simultaneous growth of decoding accuracy, reading fluency, and comprehension within the context of meaningful stories and articles. The course emphasizes practical classroom applications while providing coaching methods that foster student independence and a love for deep, inquisitive reading.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Identifying Access Points: Evaluate student reading behaviors to determine whether decoding, fluency, or comprehension is the appropriate target area, using these insights to design specific scaffolds for grade-level text.
Scaffolded Instruction: Design and implement reading lessons that provide support for foundational skills while maintaining a high level of intellectual engagement with the text.
Language Acquisition: Facilitate instructional routines that leverage repeated reading to build academic vocabulary and understand complex sentence structures in the service of deeper comprehension.
Responsive Instruction: Develop a cohesive plan for implementing close, repeated reading across different instructional settings, moving from whole-class modeling to targeted small-group scaffolds.

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