Mini Courses

Bite-sized learning at your own pace.

Our self-paced mini courses condense learning into one-hour chunks.
Zoom in on a specific literacy topic and receive the guidance you need to implement key strategies.
We know your time is valuable, so these aren’t long, recorded webinars. Each course is filled with a series of videos that are straight to the point and impactful — showing you the moves you can make as you plan for and teach your striving readers.
Each course includes three months of access to videos, readings, and downloadable resources that you can use immediately in your planning and instruction.
You will receive a certificate of completion after finishing the course.
Explore the topics below and choose your focus!

Learn about Phonemic Awareness

(1-hour courses)

Phonological Awareness vs. Phonemic Awareness
Buy for $20
Gathering Phonemic Awareness Data
Buy for $20
Analyzing Phonemic Awareness Data
Buy for $20
Getting to Know the Vowel Phonemes
Buy for $20
Getting to Know the Consonant Phonemes
Buy for $20
Phonemic Awareness Routines
Buy for $20

Learn about Decoding and Encoding

(1-hour courses)

Sound-Spelling Walls
Buy for $20
Buy for $20
Phonemic Awareness Routines
Buy for $20
Oral Reading Fluency: Assessment and Intervention
Buy for $20
Buy for $20

Learn about Fluency

(1-hour courses)

Oral Reading Fluency: Assessment and Intervention
Buy for $20

Learn How to Plan for Reading Interventions

(1-hour courses)

Not a Band-Aid: Planning for Effective Reading Intervention
Buy for $20

Learn How to Assess and Analyze Reading Data

(2-hour courses)

Buy for $40
Buy for $40

Here’s What Each Course Includes

Short Videos to

Explain Key Concepts

Our bite-sized, digestible videos are made to be consumed on the go so you don’t have to set aside hours of your day to learn about best practices.

Activity Demonstrations

 

Our activity demonstrations give you a firsthand view to research-based literacy activities that you can implement with your students.

Access to Research

Learn about the latest research and how to apply these learnings to help your students.

Downloadable Resources

Further your learning with downloadable digital resources such as articles, frameworks, graphic organizers, and templates.

Here’s What People Are Saying About Our PD!

We all know how important phonological awareness and phonemic awareness are to written language acquisition. But how to implement it, the sequence to follow, the inclusion of multisensory activities, and the monitoring of progress are elements that are explained in very complicated ways.

This course is simple but in-depth. The concepts are clarified and the strategies are explained in a way that makes them accessible to everyone. You have demonstrated that these are not complicated issues. These are important issues that can be solved with a systematic and consistent set of activities. You explained the logic behind it, and the importance of family involvement. Thanks!

Very helpful when needing more of an explanation on the specifics of phonological awareness and different activities for the classroom.

I appreciated that this course broke down all the parts for phonological awareness and gave real world examples of how to practice the skills, both in-person and virtually.

It is not completely clear, in the education setting, the importance of phonological awareness. If all teachers were able to attend a course like this, it would make the life and job of special education teachers like me much easier. We have to work with students with “learning disabilities” who, with the right support and instruction during their preschool years, shouldn’t be with me.

Your course should be mandatory for general ed teachers, as well as special education teachers who want to improve.