OnLine Teacher Training - Framing Your Thoughts - Paragraph Writing The goal is to develop active, thoughtful, purposeful writers. The Project Read® Written Expression curriculum teaches the fundamentals of sentence writing and paragraph development. The Framing Your Thoughts® curriculum uses unique graphic symbols to represent the function of sentence parts which promote sentence understanding, editing and creative independence. The instructional strategies blend creative freedom and accuracy with direct multisensory skill instruction.  Sentence Structure is a prerequisite for Paragraph Writing. Paragraph…

This is the 2nd in our FLEXIBLE MINSETS series, Creating Safety for Children to Ask Questions, Make Mistakes & Take Risks for Learning. This webinar explores how our actions and words can be fine-tuned to enhance safety for taking learning-related risks. To work towards self-directed learning, we all need a degree of control and a sense of agency. We start with the implications of power differentials and consider steps that can increase partner-centered learning to empower students. We then focus…

This is the 3rd in our FLEXIBLE MINDSETS series, Creating Safety for Children to Ask Questions, Make Mistakes & Take Risks for Learning. In this webinar, we will be discussing mistakes, mishaps, and misconceptions. Fixed mindsets invoke a desire to avoid mistakes, thereby narrowing our experiences and shutting down learning. We briefly review why mistakes are important for strengthening neural pathways and opening the window for learning. We dig deeper into the value of mistakes for: opening our minds to…

This webinar, Multisensory Structured Literacy: Simple Routines to Reinforce Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Morphology, Syntax, and Comprehension, is presented by Andrew Stetkevich. Research supports that students with dyslexia should be taught how to read and write through a multisensory structured language approach. This webinar will explore the essential components of this approach. Participants will learn simple routines and strategies to reinforce phonemic awareness and phonemic proficiency. The webinar will also detail phonics routines in the areas of sound/symbol identification, decoding, and…