LETRS Training To Help Better Serve The Reading Explorers!

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My Students

The Reading Explorer students that I will be working with require a little extra support with their reading skills. I help to supplement what their classroom teacher is providing by incorporating small group instruction that focuses on letter recognition and sounds, phonics and phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency and comprehension.

My Project

The LETRS professional development will provide me with the skills to better address their needs by teaching the following:

*Understanding the content and methodology of research-based, explicit, structured literacy instruction

*Deep knowledge of the cognitive and language factors that shape student learning and of pedagogical detail

*Information about how to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students

LETRS is based on more than two decades of research The most important factor to student success is the teacher. They, not programs, teach students how to read. Yet a study of most teaching institutions found a huge deficit in the number of programs that actually prepare teachers with all five essential components of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.** Additionally, the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP, study found 66 percent of U.S. fourth grade students are not proficient readers.Reading requires multiple parts of the brain learning to work together. Teaching reading requires a deep understanding of the science behind how we learn to read, why we spell the way we do, or how phonemic awareness and phonics lead to comprehension. Without this understanding, teachers are left feeling ill prepared. That’s why LETRS® bridges decades of evidenced-based research into classroom success.

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Teachers are the most important factor in student success. Informed teachers can explain language to students, including sounds, spellings, and word meanings that might be confusing. They use lessons based on reading science and understand the process of learning to read and write. Research proves it. Science matters. -Louisa Moats, ED.D.

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Materials	Cost	Quantity	Total
LETRS Training and Materials• Voyager Sopris Learning	$3,089.70	1	$3,089.70
Materials cost $3,089.70 Vendor shipping charges $62.70 Sales tax $0.00 3rd party payment processing fee $46.35 Fulfillment labor & materials $30.00 Total project cost $3,228.75 Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms $569.78 Total project goal $3,798.53

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