• Literacy Minnesota: Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics

    Online

    Teaching intermediate alphabetics (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words) is a great way to help students build their decoding and comprehension skills. Come learn a variety of fun and easy-to-use routines and activities for helping intermediate-level readers develop these important tools. Please note that you may be asked to participate in discussion groups during the webinar. […]

  • Literacy Minnesota: Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency

    Online

     Come and review the important role of fluency in reading instruction. We will discuss the three key components of reading fluency and look at a variety of activities tutors and teachers can try. We will talk about the mechanics of doing fluency practice via Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any other remote tutoring tool (including […]

  • Literacy Minnesota: The Learning Styles Myth (and the Teaching Practices Worth Keeping)

    Online

    Many of us were taught that students learn best when instruction matches their "learning style." In this webinar, we’ll take a closer look at where that idea came from, why it stuck, and what research actually tells us. We’ll explore how learning‑style labels can end up doing more harm than good for learners. At the […]