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Ask Martha:
Literacy Tips that Make Learning Stick!

✅ Questions about Structured Literacy, Dyslexia, or DLD?

  ✅ Unsure how to reach your most struggling students?
  ✅ Overwhelmed with PD options & not sure where to go?
  ✅ Taken courses, but still thinking, “Now what?”                   

 

Join Martha for lively & supportive conversations to help you turn literacy research into real-life results.

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Join Martha Kovack - live on Zoom - for Summer Drop-In Sessions

All are welcome!

  • Classroom teachers

  • Special education teachers

  • Reading interventionists/tutors

  • Early Childhood Educators

  • Educators/Families with students with Dyslexia, DLD (listening & speaking challenges), PDA (extreme demand avoidance), or other learning challenges 

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What You’ll Leave with:

These sessions are casual, practical, and packed with solutions based on YOUR questions. Drop in for one or come to all — and leave feeling energized, supported, and inspired.

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📅 Summer Drop-Ins

Tuesdays & Thursdays | 9:30–11:00 AM EST
Join one — or all — it’s up to you!

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Available dates:
July 15 & 17 • July 22 & 24 • July 29 & 31
August 5 & 7 • August 21 & 22 • August 26 & 28

💡 Come with a question. Leave with a plan!

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Register Here, or Martha@SoundReaders.com, (Zoom & payment links sent by email)

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Topic Discussions

  • Early Oral Language & Literacy Development (birth-5yrs)

  • The Science of Reading

  • The Simple View of Reading, Scarborough's Reading Rope, and other frameworks

  • Language Comprehension (vs Reading Comprehension)

  • The critical role of Knowledge Building

  • Overview of Language Comprehension, Phonology, Orthography, and Morphology

  • Word Recognition and Orthographic mapping - what works? what doesn't?

  • Overview of Dyslexia & DLD, and differences in brain structure and function

  • Phonology

  • Culturally responsive challenges with phonology

  • Phonemic Awareness Assessments

  • The alphabet as a whole

  • Mastering sound-letter connections through visual/auditory/kinesthetic/tactile tracing & printing​

  • Orthography

  • Short vowel confusion and how to differentiate short vowels

  • Blending cvc words automatically & effortlessly

  • 6 types of syllables and syllable division

  • Wild Words (words that do not follow the rules)

  • 3 Main Spelling Rules

  • Scopes and sequences & decodable text to match

  • Parts of a Foundational Word Reading Lesson Plan

  • Activities/games for Introducing new spelling patterns

  • Simultaneous Oral Spelling (SOS) (printing words)

  • Writing at the sentence level

  • Decodable/Controlled text

  • Reading Comprehension (moving from skills to building knowledge)

  • Routines, scripts, & timing for small and large group lessons

  • Teaching all of this online

  • Morphology

  • Multi-linguistic strategies for integrating phonology, orthography, morphology, and language comprehension

  • Fluency - the bridge to reading comprehension

  • Oral Reading Fluency Assessments

  • Vocabulary building

  • Knowledge-Based approach to Writing

  • Special concerns for students with dyslexia and DLD

  • Integrating Speech to Print approaches

  • Resources, blogs, books, researchers, training, programs, and organizations to support the rest of your learning journey!

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