Bring Clarity, Structure, and Confidence to Your Literacy Instruction
On-demand Spotlight PDs designed to help bring clarity with simple literacy routines, implement structured literacy, and make confident, data-informed decisions without overwhelm.
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→ If you’re just getting started with structured literacy (or want to dive deeper into a specific instructional routine), start with the Reading Rules We Teach or trainings related to executive functioning, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, or writing. They will give you great foundations and simple routines you can implement with students right away.
→ If you’re looking to understand how to put together a structured literacy intervention lesson, take a look at our free Spotlight PDs all about How to Structure Elementary Literacy Intervention, or if you’re working with secondary students, check out Inside a Secondary Literacy Intervention Lesson.
→ If you’re looking to turn your literacy data into action, jump into our Data to Decisions or the Progress Monitoring Spotlight PD.
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Building Phonological Awareness that Actually Supports Useful Skills
There's been a lot of debate about phonological awareness: how much to teach it, which skills matter, and whether it's even worth the time past the early grades. This training cuts through the noise. It walks you through the four core phonological awareness skill sets, shows you how to target the right ones based on the outcome you're after, and gives you a simple, customizable routine you can build into the reading you're already doing. Most importantly, it shows you how to connect sound awareness directly to reading and spelling, which is the bridge most students never build on their own.