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 Course Offerings On-Site ServicesScholastic Red professional development courses and services are designed to provide ongoing training and support to teachers, staff developers, and principals. Through online instruction and facilitator-led workshops, teachers are supported in learning new skills and strategies and applying what they learn in their classrooms. Additional on-site services delivered by Red Reading Specialists include customized workshops, classroom implementation support, and summer training institutes for facilitator certification. On-site services extend online learning and further support teachers, staff developers, and principals in establishing schools as lifelong learning communities. Scholastic Red has worked to develop courses and services that align with the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) -also referred to as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The legislation indicates that five essential elements must be a part of an effective reading program. They are Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. Scholastic Red professional development courses and services have been created with these elements in mind. |
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Online Courses with In-person Training and Support Putting Reading First in Your Classroom, Grades K-2 Building Fluency, Grades K-2 Improving Fluency, Grades 3-8 Decoding for Readers, Grades 3-5 Decoding for Readers, Grades 6-8 Improving Reading Comprehension, Grades 3-5 Middle School Literacy, Improving Text Comprehension Reading Comprehension: Focusing on High School Read 180: Making It Work in Your Classroom Putting Reading First in Your Classroom, Grades K-2 This course provides primary teachers with the foundational skills and strategies to start children on the path to becoming lifelong readers. Following an overview of Chall's six stages of reading development, the course provides best-practice teaching strategies in all five key areas of early reading development: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. As preparation for teaching early phonics skills, the course supports teachers who are in turn helping young children attain alphabetic knowledge. The section on vocabulary building offers guidance on how to increase children's sight word knowledge and oral language skills. Finally, the course focuses on how to effectively use books in the classroom, including how to match children to books. The more children are exposed to books appropriate to their reading and interest levels-and informed direct instruction using these books-the greater the chance they will become fluent readers. Building Fluency, Grades K-2 The purpose of this course is to clearly establish what fluency means for children who are first developing reading skills and to furnish teachers with the means to provide effective fluency assessment, direct-instruction, and goal-oriented practice activities. Moving through some concrete and practical ways teachers can help children with alphabetic recognition, automaticity (with word recognition), phonics, and getting meaning from text, this course models fluent reading and shows teachers how to conduct oral recitation lessons and effective reading routines. It also provides techniques for partners and small groups, such as Choral Reading and Echo Reading, and independent-reading activities such as using audiobooks, repeated readings, and speed drills. The course also demonstrates how to set up a classroom fluency corner, and how to incorporate fluency instruction into classroom routines, and identifies which kinds of texts are best used to develop specific early-reading skills. In this way, students are matched to the books that target their particular fluency needs. Improving Fluency, Grades 3-8 This course focuses on assessing oral fluency, direct instruction in building fluency, researched-based teaching techniques, and student practice activities for whole-class, small-group, and independent fluency-building. It demonstrates how to implement fluency instruction and activities into daily classroom routines, matching students to great books for fluency practice and meeting special fluency needs. It also shows how to successfully support students who have achieved or exceeded grade-level fluency while at the same time effectively working with those students who still need fluency support. Available as a separate purchase, to complement the courses Building Fluency, Grades K-2 and Improving Fluency, Grades 3-8, is the Scholastic Fluency Program. This program provides teachers of grades 1-6 with a complete, year-long fluency instructional plan. Each grade-level kit includes print assessments, fluency strategy lessons, independent and small-group practice materials, and books for fluency building. Decoding for Readers, Grades 3-5 This course helps teachers to understand the role of phonics, syllabication, and morphemes in reading instruction for intermediate grade students. It provides instruction and strategies on how to link comprehension and spelling with phonics instruction. It also offers effective methods for teaching open, closed, and other types of syllabication and how to use morphemes to decode words and build vocabulary. A session of this course is devoted to intervention, presenting researched-based methods on how to determine who needs intervention, as well as providing strategies on syllabication and word parts targeted to those students with decoding difficulties. Decoding for Readers, Grades 6-8 This decoding course is geared toward teachers of middle-school students who need help with their decoding skills. While structured in much the same way as Decoding for Readers, Grades 3-5, it focuses on strategies for helping students who have not mastered intermediate decoding skills and on integrating decoding support into content-area instruction. Available as a separate purchase to complement the Decoding for Readers, Grades 3-8 course, is our SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phoneme Awareness, Phonics and Sight Words) Instructional Program. This kit contains materials for teachers and students and it provides lessons with substantial teacher-student interaction. It is designed to help increase student proficiency in decoding and word recognition skills and to enable students to become independent, confident, and fluent readers. Improving Reading Comprehension, Grades 3-5 This course is designed for all upper-elementary teachers. Participants learn the best research-based strategies and techniques to improve students' reading comprehension. The course focuses on the following building blocks of reading comprehension: Fluency; Knowledge and Language; Reading Strategies; and Vocabulary and Writing. Participants learn practical strategies that can help students succeed in each area. Middle School Literacy, Improving Text Comprehension This course is designed for all teachers of middle school, including reading specialists and content-area teachers. The course is structured around strategies readers use before, during, and after reading to get meaning from text. It targets several research-based comprehension strategies that teachers can easily implement in their classroom. The course includes differentiated skill instruction for English language learners and students with special learning needs. Reading Comprehension: Focusing on High School This course meets the growing need for teaching and reinforcing reading comprehension skills within the high-school classroom. The most advanced readers never stop learning to read, and the goal of this course is to address the needs of students who are reading more challenging texts. It emphasizes particularly how to read difficult types of texts, such as complex and vocabulary-rich literature, involved or esoteric content-area texts, or technical articles with many visual aids. The course offers a wealth of concrete methods and strategies to help students get at meaning from a variety of demanding texts. Read 180: Making It Work in Your Classroom This course is for Read 180 teachers. It is designed to instruct, reinforce, and provide tips on optimal ways to manage the Read 180 classroom, as well as strengthen teachers' understanding of how the program effectively addresses below-level readers' need for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction. Intended for use by both new and experienced Read 180 teachers, the course explicitly describes why Read 180 is needed, what it does, and how to use it. The course provides a virtual tour of the Read 180 classroom, zooming in on each classroom area and showing what is done there, and why. It explains Read 180's gradual release model, moving from whole class to small group instruction, and finally to independent learning. The course clarifies when and how to use program technology such as CDs, audiobooks, and classroom management tools. Featured teachers share valuable tips and reflect on ways to maximize the power of Read 180 to turn lives around. |
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Our highly skilled and knowledgeable Scholastic Red Reading Specialists deliver Scholastic Red on-site services. All Scholastic Red Reading Specialists have a Master's degree or Doctorate in literacy and have an in-depth knowledge of current literacy research, best practices, and national and state standards. These reading specialists have extensive classroom experience, working with children with diverse needs and backgrounds. Customized Workshops Scholastic Red workshops are designed to extend and expand those skills and strategies learned during the online course. In each workshop teachers will have an opportunity to learn additional strategies and see different approaches to each strategy modeled. Workshops may be customized to address specific district or school needs. Classroom Implementation Support Scholastic Red Reading Specialists will help your teachers implement the skills and strategies they learn during the online course and the on-site workshops through demonstration lessons and coaching sessions. These sessions will focus on specific needs of the teachers and can range from a short planning session to in-depth meetings, which include goal setting, planning, observation of a demonstration lesson taught by the specialist and debriefing. Scholastic Red Specialists are also available to work one-on-one with those teachers who would benefit from more specific coaching sessions. These sessions would include help with planning, teaching, observation by the specialist, and reflection with the teacher. Summer Institutes/Facilitator Certification Scholastic Red Summer Institutes are designed to meet the specific needs of your district in developing a school-wide or district-wide framework for teaching reading. During the institute, your staff will learn current reading research, what good reading instruction looks like, best practices in reading instruction, and how to help classroom teachers become experts at teaching reading. By attending Scholastic Red Summer Institutes, your reading staff may also be certified as Scholastic Red Facilitators. With this certification, facilitators will become part of a select group of nationally recognized reading experts and will work closely with the Scholastic Red Reading Specialists in supporting classroom teachers enrolled in Scholastic Red online courses. |
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