Webinar “Bridging Research and Reality: Balancing Foundational Skills Instruction in the Classroom”
Aligning the latest research on reading instruction with the realities of your classroom isn’t always easy. Join Alana Mangham, Director of Curriculum Development at Heggerty, as she helps you sift through the research and shares strategies for providing explicit and systematic foundational skills instruction in order to equip students to become confident decoders of print.
By attending this edWebinar you’ll learn practical instructional strategies to engage and support a reluctant reader toward becoming a skilled reader by bridging phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics to early reading. Attendees will learn strategies that they can immediately implement in their classrooms that support the word recognition strand of Scarborough’s Reading Rope.
This edWebinar is of interest to PreK-5 teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenter
Alana Mangham, M.S. is a director of curriculum development for Heggerty. Prior to joining the Heggerty team, Alana was a member of Louisiana’s Early Literacy Commission and is currently the Reading League Louisiana Chapter’s vice president. Alana has taught in both New York City and Louisiana and spent seven years at the district level during which her work as the Rapides Parish ELA curriculum specialist was documented by EAB in Narrowing the Third-Grade Reading Gap. Alana has been a guest alongside Dr. Louisa Moats on Education Week, featured on Amplify’s Science of Reading podcast, and has published an article in the May/June 2020 issue of The Reading League Journal. With extensive experience delivering professional development to educators and leaders alike, Alana is excited to share her passion for literacy, marrying facts of science, research, and field experiences with a fun, applicable, no-nonsense approach.
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Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm EST
Free!
