Students need opportunities to apply newly learned phonics skills in connected text. Decodable texts provide a bridge between isolated phonics instruction and authentic reading experiences, allowing students to practice sound-spelling patterns while building accuracy, fluency, and confidence. When used effectively during small-group instruction, decodable texts create opportunities for targeted support, immediate feedback, and differentiated learning.
This pathway equips educators with practical tools, instructional routines, and evidence-based strategies to maximize the impact of decodable texts and strengthen foundational literacy outcomes.
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Are you seeking effective strategies to improve your students' reading skills? Have you considered the potential of decodable texts in your literacy instruction? While it is essential to teach phonics skills in isolation, the goal is for our students to be able to apply these skills while reading and writing using connected texts, like decodables. Join Rachel Scott for this timesaving, to the point session as we explore the research behind the continuum of phonics skills, instructional practices for teaching skills in isolation, and how to incorporate decodable texts linked to specific skills. Get ready to unlock the power of decodables to transform your literacy instruction! Rachel's expertise and passion for literacy will provide you with the tools and resources you need to incorporate decodable texts into your instruction and build foundational skills to enhance your students' confidence and fluency in reading.
Do you want to ensure that your students have the skills they need before they begin reading decodable texts? Research indicates that pre-reading activities are essential for helping students develop the phonemic awareness and vocabulary skills needed to decode texts successfully. Join Rachel Scott for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we lean on Wiley Blevins' book "Choosing and Using Decodable Texts" to explore practical "before-reading" routines that can be used in small groups. Rachel will focus specifically on introducing target phonics skills, blending lines, and teaching new high-frequency words. Get ready to maximize the effectiveness of your small group reading sessions with decodable texts! Rachel's expertise as a literacy instructional specialist will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to understand, plan, and implement successful "before-reading" routines in a small group using decodable texts. This is workshop one of four for the series titled "Decodable Texts: Tools and Strategies for Small Group Instruction." We recommend viewing Rachel's 30-minute session "Tapping into the Power of Decodable Texts" prior to beginning this workshop series, as it unpacks the basics of decodable texts in the classroom.
Do you want to ensure your students are fully engaged and supported while reading decodable texts? Research indicates that providing immediate feedback and guidance during reading is crucial for helping students develop accurate decoding skills and confidence. Join Rachel Scott for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we lean on Wiley Blevins' book "Choosing and Using Decodable Texts" to explore practical "during-reading" routines that can be used in small groups. Rachel will focus specifically on how teachers can help initiate the first read, provide real-time feedback, check comprehension, develop fluency, and retell/write. Get ready to maximize the effectiveness of your small group reading sessions with decodable texts! Rachel's expertise as a literacy instructional specialist will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to understand, plan, and implement successful "during-reading" routines in a small group using decodable texts.
Do you want to ensure your students can retain what they have learned after reading decodable texts? Research indicates that activities conducted after reading are essential for reinforcing phonics skills and ensuring that students can apply what they have learned in new contexts. Join Rachel Scott for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we lean on Wiley Blevins' book "Choosing and Using Decodable Texts" to explore practical "after-reading" routines that can be used in small groups. Rachel will focus specifically on comprehension checks, making meaning from our reading, reinforcing target phonics skills, and building fluency. Get ready to maximize the effectiveness of your small group reading sessions with decodable texts! Rachel's expertise as a literacy instructional specialist will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to understand, plan, and implement successful "after-reading" routines in a small group using decodable texts.
Do you want to learn how to seamlessly plan and execute lessons that span before, during, and after reading with decodable texts? Research indicates that effective reading instruction involves a cohesive plan that incorporates pre-reading preparation, interactive reading practices, and post-reading reinforcement to maximize student learning and retention. Join Rachel Scott for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we lean on Wiley Blevins' book "Choosing and Using Decodable Texts" to select one target skill within a connected decodable text and model the entire planning process from start to finish. Each piece will contribute to the learner's ability to decode words with the target feature, quickly recognize high-frequency words, and read fluently. Get ready to maximize the effectiveness of your small group reading sessions with decodable texts! Rachel's expertise as a literacy instructional specialist will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to plan an entire small group lesson using a decodable text efficiently and effectively.
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Decodable texts are one of the most powerful tools for helping emerging readers put phonics knowledge into action. This pathway equips educators with the strategies and routines needed to create meaningful small-group reading experiences that strengthen decoding, fluency, and comprehension.
