Program: Training and Consultation
Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers; Reading Specialists; Reading Coaches and Administrators
Dates: 6/18/2024 to 8/6/2024
LETRS is an acronym for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. LETRS is an empowering professional development course of study for instructors of reading, spelling, and related language skills. LETRS is not a literacy curriculum. Instead, it provides knowledge and tools that teachers can use with core reading program. It is designed to bring deeper insight and knowledge to reading instruction, provide answers that instructional materials cannot, and allow teachers to reach, through explicit, scientifically-based methods, students who might otherwise fail.
LETRS professional development consists of several components that give participants a blended learning opportunity.
Each participant will receive a Volume 1 participant book, have access to online learning modules, and four in-person unit workshops.
Attendance at in-person workshops, completion of the online learning modules and additional activities are eligible for Act 48 Hours. An overview of these activities and Act 48 hours will be done during the Unit 1 Workshop.
Workshops will be held at Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Lunch will be on your own. Volume 1 participant book and online subscription is $399.00. Participants must attend the Unit 1 workshop as the prerequisite for any other unit workshops.
Unit 1 The Challenge of Learning to Read June 18, 2024
Unit 2 The Speech Sounds of English July 9, 2024
Unit 3 Teaching Beginning Phonics, Word Recognition, and Spelling July 25, 2024
Unit 4 Advanced Decoding, Spelling, and Word Recognition August 6, 2024