Reading Assistant Plus Training for Out-of-School Learning Providers

Do you teach reading? Are any of your clients struggling with comprehension or reading fluency?  Are you responsible for teaching English, including reading, to ESL/ELL/EAL/ESOL clients?

Would you like to see 19 different reading comprehension strategies to boost your clients' progress?

Would any, or all, of your clients benefit from having a personal reading aloud coach to listen to them and correct them as they read aloud?

If you said "yes" to any of these questions, or if you want to get the latest, research-based reading instruction practices, then you will love this course.

It's a dive into best practices for guided reading and web-based reading instruction and how these have been mapped to the online tool - Reading Assistant Plus.

Ideal for learning professionals and reading tutors to leverage your time working with struggling readers and English language learners.

  • Guided reading and the link with fluency & comprehension
  • The advantages of reading aloud
  • The optimal guided reading learning model
  • How reading aloud influences vocabulary, comprehension, reading fluency & writing
  • Go-to strategies for struggling readers and/or English learners
  • Guided reading lessons on the web: Reading Assistant Plus

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to Navigate Through Your Course

    • Welcome to Reading Assistant Plus Training for Providers of Out-of-School Learning

    • About your course

    • See How Reading Assistant Plus Works

    • Your Instructor: Megan Ross MA
  • 2

    Chapter 1 - Guided Reading Unpacked

    • Guided Reading, Fluency, Comprehension, Struggling Readers & English Language Learners
  • 3

    Chapter 2 - About Guided Reading

    • What Guided Reading Is, and Is Not
  • 4

    Chapter 3 - Guided Reading Step by Step

    • Guided Reading: Before, During & After
  • 5

    Chapter 4 - Reading Assistant Plus - Sneak Peek

    • How Reading Assistant Plus is Structured
  • 6

    Chapter 5 - Reading Assistant Plus Step 1

    • Reading Assistant Plus Step 1
  • 7

    Chapter 6 - Reading Assistant Plus Step 2

    • Reading Assistant Plus step 2
  • 8

    Chapter 7 - Reading Assistant Plus Step 3

    • Reading Assistant Plus Step 3
  • 9

    Chapter 8 - Reading Assistant Plus Reports and Conclusion

    • Reading Assistant Plus Reports and Conclusion
  • 10

    Chapter 9 - Where Reading Assistant Plus fits into Fast ForWord 123

    • Fast ForWord 123 video showing where Reading Assistant Plus fits

    • Closing comments RA+ training for providers of out-of-school learning

  • 11

    Extras

    • More resources for you

Learn how Reading Assistant Plus, an online reading aloud coach powered by voice recognition technology can help you help your students.

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About the instructor

Product Manager, Reading Assistant Plus

Meg Ross M.A

Meg Ross started her professional career as a juvenile court translator, helping explain the law and the court proceedings to Spanish speaking juvenile offenders and their families.She soon saw how futile her efforts were to help the unfortunate people caught up in these court proceedings. And she resolved to try to make a difference through education.So Meg returned to University (college, as it's known in the USA) and built on her undergraduate degree in Spanish Literature with a Graduate Degree in Education Policy and Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity from University of Colorado Boulder.As a Bilingual Elementary Teacher, she taught English and Spanish to grades 2 -5 in Denver, Colorado for 4 years,She has also trained university professors and student-teachers on best practices in English instruction in the Philippines while posted there in USA Peace Corps.Meg has worked for the Pearson education products and services company on the development of an iPad-based progress-monitoring tool for English Learners.She is currently Product Manager, Reading Assistant; Educational Content Lead at Scientific Learning Corporation.