Webinar Recordings

Learn how literacy leadership at Washington County School District in Maryland aligned MTSS, reading science, and diagnostic data—creating a collaborative, school-wide model for adolescent literacy success.

How Marshall Middle School used ReadBasix data to pinpoint gaps in Word Recognition and Decoding, and cut the share of students needing foundational decoding support from 50% to 18% in one quarter.

How Cloquet Middle and High School aligned their literacy practices with the Minnesota READ Act and used ReadBasix to find and close foundational reading gaps.

Practical strategies for integrating evidence-based reading practices into secondary schools, setting up screening systems, and monitoring progress.

Word-level interventions for adolescent readers, and how progress monitoring fits into an MTSS strategy.

Helping students build the advanced content and disciplinary literacy skills they need for high school and college success.

What "diagnostic" actually means, and which characteristics to look for when selecting a diagnostic reading assessment.

How middle school teachers can build on the foundational reading skills developed in the primary grades.

Why the Science of Reading is much more than K-3 phonics, and how it applies to reading in K-12 and beyond.

Teaching older students to decode academic, multisyllabic words and recognize them automatically.

Engaging practices that build both oral and silent reading fluency and lead to comprehension.

Helping older readers make sense of relationships at the phrase and sentence level, where comprehension is built.

Word analysis instruction that builds both word and morpheme knowledge, including general academic vocabulary.

Foundational writing principles: the writing process, effective feedback, and building a supportive community of writers.

Explicitly teaching the writing process, and approaching AI tools with a critical, technoskeptical stance.

Assessing writing proficiency, giving constructive feedback, setting goals, and using results to inform instruction.