On-Demand edWebinar
The Comprehension Connection:
Braiding Foundational Skills for Reading Success
In this recorded edWebinar, Great Minds experts explore how word-reading skills develop and connect to K–5 instruction. Grounded in decades of reading research, including Scarborough’s Reading Rope and the Simple View of Reading, the session shows how these skills build knowledge and comprehension.
Topics include:
- Apply orthographic mapping research to your practice and see how students move from sounding out words to reading them by sight.
- Explain how word recognition and language comprehension work together, and why automaticity is the bridge to deeper reading.
- Understand how a robust sight vocabulary and knowledge of language structures lead to fluent reading.
- Recognize how intentionally weaving these strands together leads to deep comprehension and student achievement.
Walk away with a deeper understanding of how foundational skills and English language arts should be strategically intertwined to support comprehension, along with research-grounded strategies you can apply right away.
Professional development and certification:
Watch the edWebinar recording on edWeb.net to earn a CE certificate, which may count toward professional development hours and teacher license renewal in most states.
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Other resources:
- Melissa & Lori Love Literacy® Podcast Episode: Effective Fluency Instruction with Tim Rasinski
- Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast Episode: Making Words Stick with Molly Ness and Katie Pace Miles
- Blog Post: Oral Reading Fluency is More than Speed
- Blog Post: Clearing Up Misconceptions About "the Baseball Study"
