We tailor the workshop to your needs. Most schools select either the eight-hour or more comprehensive fifteen-hour training, to ensure all teachers and administrators fully understand what the research says, how that research is translated into concrete materials, and how the program may be most effectively used.

Sample topics include:

• The Oral Foundations of Literacy: Literature, Vocabulary & Oral Comprehension
• Phonemic Awareness: What it is, materials, games and activities to teach it
• Introduction to Letters with AlphaBits for Kids‘ characters and songs
• The New Paradigm in Beginning Reading Instruction
• Synopsis of 30 Years of Research on the Brain and Reading
• Beginning to Read -Word Building and Word Reading
• Phrases and Sentences with Sight Words
• Facts about the English Language
• Assessments
• Wrap-up with Q & A