Promising Technology Practices for Struggling Readers

Presenters

Heidi Silver-Pacuilla (Primary)

Deputy Director
National Center for Technology Innovation

Bridget Dalton

Chief Literacy and Technology Officer
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Description

This interactive event will be led by Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Deputy Director of the, National Center for Technology Innovation and Bridget Dalton, Chief Literacy and Technology Officer at the Center for Applied Special Technology The webcast will focus on research-based and promising technology-based approaches to improving outcomes for struggling readers. Assistive and learning technologies that support reading and communicating in the content areas will be featured, related resources will be shared, and practical solutions to common instructional and implementation challenges will be demonstrated.

Related Resources from SchoolsMovingUp

Based on your interest in this event, you might like to review SchoolsMovingUp’s other literacy resources — including upcoming Online Events and Online Event archives, Tips to Go, useful links, and abstracted readings. We have organized our site's literacy resources for easy reference here. Also, view our web site titled , Technology to Support Diverse Learners, to show how some existing technology resources already available at most schools — talking text, Web resources, graphic organizers, and word processors.

Mar 24 Differentiated Tools and Strategies to Support RTI in Language Arts/Social Studies

Understanding How to Navigate the Map of Standards for English Learners (Introductory)

Understanding How to Use the Essential ELD Standards for Teaching and Assessment (Intermediate)

English Learners and the Language Arts

English Learners and the Language Arts (Follow-up Presentation)

Keeping Quality Teachers: The Art of Retaining General and Special Education Teachers

Evaluating English Learner Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement, Part 2

Successful Strategies for Middle and High School Inclusion

Standards-Based Instruction: Could it Happen in Special Education?

IDEA and Literacy

What Does the Research Say About Designing Quality Literacy Instruction?

Using Flexible Technology to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners

Differentiated Instruction: An Overview and One Classroom’s Transformation

Response to Intervention (RTI) and the Connections to Neurodevelopment

What’s Happening in Vocabulary Research?

Reading Science for Understanding in Middle and High School

Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs (Research from CREATE)

Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth (Research from CREATE)

Word Lists: Choices and Uses

Standards-Based Instruction: Is It Possible for Students with Disabilities? (Encore Presentation)

Learning All-Purpose Academic Words (Research from CREATE)

Tools for Literacy: Technology to Support Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Research from CREATE)

Critical Science Vocabulary

The Key Three Routine: Comprehension Strategy Instruction

A School Immersed in Vocabulary

A County Immersed in Vocabulary

Snapshots of RTI Implementation

RTI Process Steps: A Small Elementary School's Approach to Implementation

RTI in a Secondary School Setting: Riverbank High School Story

Taking Center Stage—Act II : Building Effective Programs for English Learners in the Middle Grades

Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Encore Presentation)

Response to Intervention: Online Professional Development Modules and Resources for Implementation

Response to Intervention: Online Professional Development Modules and Resources for Classroom Assessment

Word Generation: Using Online Tools To Support Effective Implementation of an Academic Language Program (SERP Institute)

Engaging Diverse Learners in Group Instruction Utilizing Interactive Whiteboards