GALA Literacy Learning Series #11

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Join our jam-packed session to explore how to incorporate read-aloud texts into a Structured Literacy classroom. This hour is all about phonics fun through incorporating best practices in modeling oral language, engaging students in listening comprehension and reinforcing strategies covered in your core curriculum.

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS

• Get to Know Schwa: Understand the role of the schwa sound in multisyllabic words and how to effectively explain this concept to students.
• How to Fit Read-Alouds into your Literacy Block: Learn creative and interactive ways to use questioning, think-alouds and sentence starters to get the conversation going with your students.
• Extension Activities: Gain tried and true strategies to help solidify the concept of schwa and take a peek at activities that will aid students in decoding multisyllabic words with schwa.
• Q & A Session: Ask away! This discussion time will be an open forum to share and questions about schwa, incorporating a sound wall in a Structured Literacy classroom and ways to make decoding strategies stick for students.
• Raffle Time! Two lucky winners will receive a swag bag with books, stickers and more goodies for their classroom.

Yvette Manns is a Science of Reading enthusiast, language and literacy specialist, dyslexia practitioner and author living in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the past decade and a half, she has dedicated her work to improving literacy outcomes for students. Yvette has led professional development for districts, schools and government agencies to create equitable access for underserved and underrepresented groups in literacy. Her books are in over 6,000 classrooms and libraries in the United States, Canada and Australia and her training videos have over 1.8 million views on YouTube. Yvette has received House Resolutions and Proclamations from the City of Atlanta in honor of her impact to the literacy landscape, and has also been featured in multiple media outlets for her ingenuity in education. When she is not training, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son, traveling and riding her Peloton bike until her legs feel like noodles.

GALA Leadership Team

• Bethany L. Scullin, Chair
• Robert A. Griffin, Vice Chair
• Al Dodge, Treasurer
• Helena Foster, Secretary
• Megan Schumacher, Membership Working Committee Chair/Member-At-Large
• Carolyn Cutts, Social Media Working Committee Chair/Member-At-Large Chair
• Oluremi Wright, Grants/Scholarships/Awards Working Committee Chair/Member-At-Large Chair
• Crystal Beach, Chair of Professional Development Committee/Member-At-Large

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