This series of classes is designed to introduce participants to explicit literacy practices for meeting the needs of students with dyslexia and other word-level reading difficulties.  Each offering is a separate class. 

Participants may pick which ones they want or can attend or all seven.  Topics covered will be: the role of decoding, phonological awareness, and orthographic mapping in reading fluently for comprehension and motivation.

 - The big picture of reading

 - Phonemic awareness

 - Sound symbol correspondences

 - Syllables

 - Morphology

 - Syntax & phrases

 - Text comprehension & written expression