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On-Demand Webinar: Five Favorite Strategies for Making Sense of Fractions
Fractions are typically one of the most challenging topics for both students and teachers. During this one-hour webinar, CORE’s Director of Mathematics, Dean Ballard, will share techniques for making fraction concepts and operations understandable, increasing retention, and building fluency.
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Free Webinar: Assessment and Intervention in Light of Understanding the Nature of Reading Difficulties
WEBINAR DATE & TIME: November 13 | 4:00 – 5:00pm ET
Understanding how word-level reading develops and why some students struggle are valuable starting points for planning reading instruction and interventions. Knowing this puts educators in a good position to determine what aspect(s) of the reading process may be creating difficulties for children. This in turn, enables educators to provide intervention that is highly effective to minimize or eliminate the reading difficulty.
Join Dr. David Kilpatrick, Author of Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, for this free webinar to learn:
- Common types of reading problems
- Best practices for assessing reading difficulties
- Which types of assessments can be used to identify individual struggling reader’s difficulties
- Specific interventions based on the different types of reading difficulties
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an expert in the field of reading assessment and intervention.
If you’re not able to join the live webinar, please go ahead and register. We will send you a recording to watch at your convenience.
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On-Demand Webinar: Improving College & Career Readiness for All Students
Oceanside High School (OHS), 40 miles north of San Diego, is building college and career preparation into the learning experience so that every student, regardless of race, gender, income, or disability, graduates with the academic knowledge and social-emotional skills to be successful in whichever educational or career choices they pursue after high school.
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Free Webinar: The Challenges of Language and Reading for Low Income African American Children Who Speak Dialect
WEBINAR DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Oct. 22 | 4:00 – 5:00p.m. ET
While the impacts of poverty on academic achievement are widely known, dialect also plays a significant and unrecognized role in the reading achievement of millions of children. Just like students whose native language is Spanish or Amharic, students who speak the dialect known as African-American English (AAE) face obstacles to becoming proficient readers.
You’re invited to join Dr. Julie A. Washington for this informative free webinar as she shares the:
- Characteristics of AAE
- Impact of poverty on language
- Relationship of dialect to growth of reading
- Variables that influence reading outcomes for poor children
- Implications for the classroom
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the impact AAE dialect has on black-white differences in reading achievement.
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On-Demand Webinar: Why Phonemic Proficiency is Necessary for All Readers
Most educators have heard that phonemic awareness (PA) is important for reading. However, it is often not clear why. Most readers were never taught PA, yet they are good readers. Some advocates of phonics instruction as well as advocates of balanced literacy downplay the importance of PA for reading instruction. Still other educators are puzzled by the concept of “advanced PA.”
In this free on-demand webinar, Dr. David Kilpatrick, author of Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, will discuss how and why highly developed PA skills (i.e., “phonemic proficiency”) are a characteristic of skilled readers, whether a student is taught it or not. By contrast, struggling readers do not develop these skills without direct intervention.
Watch this webinar to learn the key factors that link phonological skills and word-level reading.
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