Inspiring Literacy Series - Brynn Redmond, M.Ed

Contact Brynn for more info. WHY It Works!
Inspiring Literacy Series is a comprehensive reading series designed to empower teachers to understand and master the content and instructional practices necessary to empower elementary students to become confident readers, writers, spellers, and communicators.  A strong literacy foundation is essential for a student’s academic success.  Inspiring Literacy Series is built upon a balanced literacy approach and gives participants an instructional framework based upon the latest brain research regarding how the brain learns and acquires language.

HOW It Works!
Inspiring Literacy Series is composed of six comprehensive courses based on research by leading literacy specialists, brain research specialist, the National Reading Panel, and the National Institute for Literacy. The series is designed for Kindergarten through Sixth Grade classroom teachers, learning specialists, special education teachers (of mild-moderate learning differences), tutors and parents. The course objective is to teach participants how to equip students with a strong literacy foundation through providing necessary knowledge, strategies, instructional framework, and assessment tools to teach students to decode, comprehend, read fluently, write, spell, and think critically.

- Six Comprehensive Courses -

Phonics Foundation
Phonics Foundation is designed to teach letter patterns, phonics rules, simple syllabication patterns, and instructional strategies for teaching phonics. Focus on Phonics will provide participants with the knowledge and strategies to effectively teach phonemic awareness intertwined with phonics, sound-symbol relationship, the rules that govern our language and the explicit, systematic way to instruct .

Voracious Vocabulary
Voracious Vocabulary is designed to help teachers develop an appropriate plan for expanding student vocabulary. All aspects of vocabulary in the elementary world are discussed including sight words, academic vocabulary, content-specific vocabulary, and conversational vocabulary. Participants will learn to utilize instructional strategies grounded in brain research that make words stick so that students utilize new words when speaking, comprehending, and writing. Words enable students to comprehend as well as become effective communicators and critical thinkers.

Constructing Comprehension!
Constructing Comprehension addresses the research that comprehension must be explicitly taught. Teachers will learn to utilize metacognition and visual tools as strategies to explicitly teach the thinking processes involved in comprehension of fiction and non-fiction text.  Teachers will also learn to utilize rubrics to differentiate higher level thinking skills within each comprehension strategy.  Instruction will also include opportunities to practice instructional strategies such as effective read alouds, small group instruction, and individual student conferencing. The role of informal versus formal assessment will also be discussed. Fantastic Fluency!
Fantastic Fluency provides participants with engaging and meaningful strategies for increasing reading fluency.  We will discuss the purpose of fluency, reasons why some students struggle to read fluently, as well as ways to support struggling readersy. Reading – Writing Connection
Reading – Writing Connection discusses how reading and writing thought processes have a symbiotic relationship in the brain.  If we design our instruction in accordance with this research, we will notice our students acquiring language through a more purposeful and meaningful lens. The result will be more confident communicators; students who are able to problem solve on their own, transfer knowledge, share their thinking, and see value in making meaning of print. Designing Instruction
Designing Instruction provides a framework for aligning instruction with how the brain learns.  Participants will learn the core processes of learning and how to utilize brain research when planning whole group instruction, small group instruction, as well as the role of creating student goals.  We will discuss planning on the macro level regarding units of study as well as on the micro level of daily lesson plans.  Teachers will have an opportunity to think about how to purposefully layer all of the balanced literacy pieces in a way that leads to student understanding, transfer, and retention.

Inspiring Literacy Series - Brynn Redmond, M.Ed

Contact Brynn for more info.