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SPIRE Workshop: Full-day Professional Development - Voorhees, NJ
Date and time
Location
Cooper Learning Center - Clock Tower
931 Centennial Blvd. Voorhees Township, NJ 08043Refund Policy
Description
Reach Struggling Readers:
This hands-on, one-day S.P.I.R.E. Orton-Gillingham-based workshop is designed to provide you the skills and strategies to effectively teach the S.P.I.R.E. program.
This workshop is sponsored by your local EPS Sales Rep, Joe Toscano and hosted by Cooper Learning Center.
About SPIRE
S.P.I.R.E.® - Intensive Reading Intervention for nonreaders and struggling readers.
Now available with two options for flexible implementation!
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:
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Explore the scope and sequence of S.P.I.R.E. including Sounds Sensible which teaches beginning readers consonant sounds
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Learn how to assess the phonetic level of students and how to place them at the appropriate S.P.I.R.E. level
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Optimize the use of the S.P.I.R.E. materials and the time saving, teacher-friendly lesson plans included for each lesson
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Practice the multisensory teaching techniques utilized throughout the 10-step lesson
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Identify the progress monitoring assessments built into the program to ensure student success
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Discuss S.P.I.R.E.’s structure, pacing and opportunities for differentiation with experienced practitioners
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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
Continental breakfast and refreshments also 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.
Organized by
We believe literacy comes first. EPS Learning provides educators a comprehensive intervention system founded on trusted methodologies, informed by continuous research and third-party-proven to accelerate student progress towards grade level literacy. The EPS literacy intervention system uniquely leverages background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, phonological awareness, word recognition, decoding and literacy knowledge required for overall educational – and life – success. Our interdisciplinary team of literacy, education, research, and technology experts ensure educators and students can trust our solutions are up-to-date, reliable, easy to use and prepared to help them overcome today’s new challenges.