Select a topic from the list below to view a video presentation by a qualified LANGUAGE! trainer.

 Understanding LANGUAGE!'s Research Basis

• Overview: LANGUAGE! and Research
• Your Literacy Crisis
• Masks of the Struggling Student
• Motivating the Struggling Student
• Overview: Teaching Literacy

 The LANGUAGE! Curriculum: Structure and Components

• Six Steps from Sound to Text
• Six Steps in Your Classroom
• Check Your Box
• My Language! Resources
• Teacher Edition
• Teacher Edition: Part 1
• Teacher Edition: Part 2
• Teacher Edition: Part 3
• Student Edition
• Student Text: Part 1
• Student Text: Part 2
• Student Text: Part 3
• Interactive Text
• Instructional Planning Tools & Technology Pieces

 LANGUAGE! Assessments

• Assessment Overview
• Establishing a Baseline
• TOSWRF
• TOSWRF: Overview & Administration
• TOSWRF: Scoring, Part I
• TOSWRF: Scoring, Part 2
• TOSWRF: Scoring Practice & Converting Scores
• DRP
• DRP: Overview and Administration
• DRP: Scoring
• DRP: Conclusion
• Spelling Inventory
• Spelling Inventory, Part 1
• Spelling Inventory, Part 2
• Student Placement
• Monitoring Progress
• Ongoing Assessment: Content Mastery and Fluency, Part 1
• Ongoing Assessment: Content Mastery and Fluency, Part 2
• Determining Mastery
• Summative Tests and Progress Indicators

 Teaching LANGUAGE!

• The DNA of the LANGUAGE! Teacher's Guide
• TRG: Introduction and Organization
• TRG: Curriculum Content, Assessment Schedule and Placement
• TRG: Ongoing Assessments, Data Management, English Learners & Fluency
• TRG: Technology Tools, Home-School Connections & Introduction to Why Do/How To
• TRG: Why Do/How To Folder Activities
• TRG: Creating a Student Notebook, Part 1
• TRG: Creating a Student Notebook, Part 2
• TRG: Creating a Student Notebook, Part 3
• TRG: Appendices & Lesson Structure
• Step 1: Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
• Phonemic Awareness Drills: Overview
• Phonemic Awareness Drills: Production/Replication and Isolation
• Phonemic Awareness Drills: Segmentation & Blending
• Phonemic Awareness Drills: Rhyming & Deletion
• Phonemic Awareness Drills: Substitution & Reversal
• Step 1 Overview
• Research & Teaching
• Phonemic Awareness
• The Consonant Chart, Part 1
• The Consonant Chart, Part 2
• The Vowel Chart
• Syllable Types & Phoneme Production
• Step 2: Word Recognition and Spelling
• Word Recognition & Spelling, Part 1
• Word Recognition & Spelling, Part 2
• Step 3: Vocabulary and Morphology
• Step 3 Overview
• Vocabulary Development
• Teaching Morphology
• Teaching Idioms
• Step 4: Grammar and Usage
• Research and Overview
• Grammar and Syntax
• Grammar Examples: Exit Exams
• Syntax and Comprehension
• Grammar and Comprehension
• Step 5: Listening & Reading Comprehension & Step 6: Speaking & Writing:
• Overview
• Stages of Reading Development
• Behind the Text/Text Selections
• Skill Level Alignment
• Writing: The Juggling Act
• Decodable, Independent & Instructional Texts
• Before, During and After Activities

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