Literacy-based reading intervention training offered at free seminars

Julie Ross, a national trainer, will offer an overview of S.P.I.R.E.®, an Orton-Gillingham structured literacy-based reading intervention program designed for struggling readers, students with dyslexia, and non-readers. SPIRE builds reading success through direct, explicit, and systematic instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Seminar is free but registration is required.

Jackson/Flowood: Wednesday, May 10  –  https://jackson4may.eventbrite.com/

Biloxi: Thursday, May 11  –  https://biloxi5may.eventbrite.com/

Join to learn about:

  • Multi-sensory program that applies the Science of Reading with Structured Literacy
  • Explicit, teacher-led instruction is data-driven
  • Reinforcing concepts for mastery through an intensive, structured, and spiraling curriculum
  • Why SPIRE can be used to improve students’ deficit areas
  • The 10 steps that make up a S.P.I.R.E. lesson, including details and the importance of each
  • Facilitates educators’ ability to easily share, track, assess, and report through the Digital Teacher Companion Program.
  • SPIRE is on Mississippi Evidence-based Academic Interventions Approved List

Julie Ross is a certified Special Education teacher in the areas of Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders, and Educable Mental Handicaps. Julie has over 25 years of teaching experience with students at all education levels, K-12; in both private and public-school settings.

S.P.I.R.E. was written by Orton-Gillingham Fellow, Sheila Clark-Edmonds, M.S. Ed. and incorporates the Orton- Gillingham approach as well as the latest reading research on how struggling readers learn. This multisensory program was created specifically to teach at-risk children and children with dyslexia how to read.

Contact Stephanie Johnson stephanie.johnson@schoolspecialty.com for more information. See flyer MS SPIRE_Flyer May 2023.