Who should take this class?
Every home educator, tutor, and classroom teacher who wishes to strengthen and deepen their student’s reading skills will benefit from this class and its insights.
Educators working with students who have weak reading comprehension due to dyslexia and developmental language delays will gain the knowledge required to provide effective intervention.
Educators working with students who have weak handwriting skills due to dysgraphia will find meaningful writing activities that are easily modified for different skill levels. Through deep learning with meaningful practice, you will grow your students’ reading, writing, and editing skills.
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What age and skill levels do the strategies in this class support?
This class is designed for educators working with students who have at least acquired basic reading and writing skills (students must be able to read and write basic sentences) and are ready to grow those skills. Age-appropriate concepts included in this class are taught to students who are acquiring literacy skills (typically grades K-2) in our Pinwheels curriculum.
With this class, you will gain an understanding of the essential areas of instruction to strengthen skills across advancing grade levels. Since every learner is progressing at their own pace, you can apply the strategies taught in this class to any text on your student’s reading journey. Through the teachings in this class, you will be able to support your growing readers and writers using effective, scaffolded reading instruction and comprehension strategies.
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Will the Reading Accuracy, Fluency & Comprehension class help my student who struggles?
Yes. The content taught in this class is useful for teaching any student who is reading sentence-level text, including students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and developmental language delays. For students with language delays, weak syntax and vocabulary are their two most likely areas of weakness that impacts their comprehension, according to research. This program follows a functional approach, using evidence-based therapeutic strategies from the field of Speech-Language therapy and designed to support these areas of weakness.
For students with dyslexia and dysgraphia, their weak reading and writing skills interrupt their ability to coordinate all the areas of literacy needed for successful reading comprehension (and writing composition) — including accuracy and fluency! Using the strategies taught in this class, you will help students who struggle by teaching all three reading skill areas explicitly and systematically. The functional and therapeutic reading comprehension strategies taught in this class will improve students’ attention to text, deepening their thinking and writing output.
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Rather than watch the entire class upfront, can I use the material right away?
Yes. If preferred, you can stop the video after each new concept and put your new learning into practice with your students before resuming the training. However, the class is divided into three parts: first accuracy, then fluency, then comprehension. It ends with a variety of project ideas. It is best to watch the class in its entirety to gain the broadest understanding of how these domains interweave. So even if you implement new learning as you watch, be sure to complete the class in a timely manner. Remember, you will have ongoing access to the instructional videos and can review concepts previously watched.
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What are Rooted in Language educator training classes and why do I need them?
All language arts studies rely on complex underlying language skills. Success in reading and writing requires explicit teaching strategies that cross these intertwined skill areas. In our educator training classes, we teach you methods that are effective, research-based, and supportive of all students, especially those with learning difficulties.
We provide and demonstrate deep learning strategies for the specified content area in each of our classes, so you know what to teach and how to teach it, across all age and learning levels.
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Do you offer a Certificate of Completion for continuing education?
Yes. After finishing the class, please contact us to request a Certificate of Completion. Rooted in Language will, in turn, deliver a downloadable Certificate of Completion to you within 5 business days. Your Certificate can be submitted for CEU’s; however, acceptance is subject to each governing body’s rules and approval.
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For schools or classroom teachers: We have several teachers in our school who would benefit from the Reading Accuracy, Fluency & Comprehension class? Do you offer group pricing?
Yes. We would love for all your classroom teachers to benefit from the professional development that the Reading AFC class provides. If you have 3 or more teachers in your school who will be taking the class, please contact us for group pricing.
