Language+Essentials

//** PaTTAN   King of Prussia  Module 1: October 29, 2008 Module 4: November 25, 2008 Module 10: December 17, 2008 Module 11: January 29, 2009 9:00 A.M.—3:15 P.M.  // LETRS is a staff development program that was developed by Louisa Moats and others to increase teachers’ understanding of how students learn to read, write and spell, and how to implement research supported instructional strategies to increase reading success. The program is delivered through 12 modules addressing components of reading instruction: Phonemic Awareness, Decoding, Word Study, Spelling, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension, and Writing. // **// All participants are required to take Module 1 prior to participating in other Modules. //**      Participants will be able to:    •   Explain why learning to read is difficult for many students    •   Develop awareness of what the mind does when it reads    •   Become familiar with the four-processor model or reading    •   List the characteristics and causes of reading difficulty    •   Understand the role of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension    •   Identify the ways in which word meanings are learned in oral and written language    •   Develop a rationale for choosing specific words for direct instruction    •   Generate multiple meanings for words and understand why instruction of multiple meanings is import    •   Practice semantic feature analysis    •   Practice categorizing and understand its importance    •   Create a lesson plan for teaching vocabulary    •   Map phonemes to graphemes in single syllable words    •   Identify, categorize, and combine six predictable syllable structures in written English    •   Divide multisyllabic words using several high-utility principles    •   Identify stable prefixes and changeable prefixes    •   Outline the many causes of reading comprehension difficulties    •   Relate the research on teaching reading comprehension    •   Explore text structure and its relationship to comprehension    •   Describe the Key Three Routine    •   Create topic webs followed by paragraphs for main idea and detail expression    •   Create two column notes for comprehension
 * // PA LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) Training Series Grades 4—12


 * ** Module 1 ** ||
 * 9:00 A.M.—10:30 A.M. ||||  Overview, Key Vocabulary,  ||
 * Learning to Read is Not Natural || ||
 * 10:30 A.M.—10:45 A.M. ||||  Break  ||
 * 10:45 A.M.—12:00 P.M. ||||  What the Mind Does When It Reads  ||
 * 12:00 P.M.— 12:45 P.M. ||||  Lunch  ||
 * 12:45 P.M.—1:45 P.M. ||||  How Children Learn to Read  ||
 * 1:45 P.M.—2:00 P.M. ||||  Break  ||
 * 2:00 P.M.—3:15 P.M. ||||  Dyslexia and Other Causes of Reading Failure  ||
 * 2:00 P.M.—3:15 P.M. ||||  Dyslexia and Other Causes of Reading Failure  ||

Cecelia Thompson Chairperson, Philadelphia Right to Education Local Task Force