SPIRE Workshop: Full-day-New York, NY

Reach Struggling Readers:

This hands-on, one-day S.P.I.R.E. Orton-Gillingham-based workshop participants will gain the skills to effectively teach the S.P.I.R.E.

This workshop is hosted by Lavinia Mancuso, Executive Director, Everyone Reading.

About the Workshop

Attend our one-day workshop to learn about language-based learning disabilities and dyslexia, identification and placement screening of struggling readers, implementation and progress monitoring, pacing, and how to ensure that goals and expectations are clear so that instruction can be adapted as needed. Participants will gain the skills to effectively teach the S.P.I.R.E. curriculum. In this engaging, interactive workshop, participants will:

• Explore the scope and sequence of S.P.I.R.E. including Sounds Sensible which teaches beginning readers consonant sounds

• Learn how to assess the phonetic level of students and how to place them at the appropriate S.P.I.R.E. level

• Optimize the use of the S.P.I.R.E. materials and the time saving, teacher-friendly lesson plans included for each lesson

• Practice the multisensory teaching techniques utilized throughout the 10-step lesson

• Identify the progress monitoring assessments built into the program to ensure student success

• Discuss S.P.I.R.E.’s structure, pacing and opportunities for differentiation with experienced practitioners

• Explore the steps of Sounds Sensible lessons, the pre-level 1 component of S.P.I.R.E

Trainer: JoAnn Lense, Director of Traning Everyone Reading NYC

What is included:

Registration includes one each of the following S.P.I.R.E. Level 1 materials:
• Teacher Guide • Student Reader
• Blackline Master • Phonogram Cards Level 1-5
• Student Workbook • Word Cards
• Magnetic Board & Letter • Sound Circles
• Ancillary material for training

Light Continental breakfast included

Who should attend?

This workshop is valuable for all educators serving grades Pre–K-8: Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers, Resource Specialists, Reading Specialists, and other staff who work with students with reading difficulties.