Literacy & Lifestyle Assessment
& Research Centre
Courses for Teachers
Understanding Reading
Provides strategies for teaching, assessment and intervention. Teachers are given materials to assess a child. These assessments are interpreted and used as the basis for discussion of intervention strategies.
INSET covers:- How children learn to read
- Current research on how to teach children to read
- Addressing word level objectives
- Why reading problems occur
- Assessment of reading difficulties
- Strategies for overcoming reading difficulties
2 school days - approximately 10 hours