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Sound Readers Power Hours
Literacy Tips that Make Learning Stick!

  • Questions about Structured Literacy, Dyslexia, or DLD?

  • Unsure how to reach specific students?

  • Overwhelmed with PD options & not sure where to go?

  • Taken courses, but still thinking, “Now what?”                  

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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 Monthly 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 on the 3rd Monday of the month — and leave feeling energized, supported, and inspired.

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📅 Fall Drop-Ins

Mondays | 7:30–8:30 PM EST
Join one — or all — it’s up to you!​

 

  • September 15

  • October 20

  • November 17

  • December 15

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Come with a question. Leave with a plan!

 

FREE for Boot Camp Grads!

​(or anyone who has taken similar training with Martha)

 

Register Here, or contact Martha with questions: Martha@SoundReaders.com

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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!

Martha's Mission

Through Structured Literacy Boot Camps and Sound Readers Power Hours, Martha supports educators who want to dig deeper into reading instruction—not through lectures and jargon, but through conversation, community, and the nurturing of curiosity.

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Whether you’re brand new to structured literacy or looking to sharpen your skills, you’ll find a space to ask questions, test ideas, grow, and enjoy the process.

While Structured Literacy is essential—it is only the beginning. Sessions are grounded in evidence and fueled by real-life instructional challenges, joyful “aha” moments, and the relationships that make teaching matter.

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Here, teachers are not passive recipients of information. They are researchers, reflectors, and reformers—learning beside one another, not beneath a hierarchy. We create safe, energizing spaces where professional growth is joyful, reciprocal, and deeply inspiring.

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Rooted in the science of reading, responsive to the art of teaching, and inspired by how learning truly happens, we are building more than skills—we are building a movement of literacy leaders.

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