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Reading Interventions for the Virtual Student: Screening, Progress-Monitoring, & Targeted Individualized and Small Group Support

Monday, February 24, 2025
3:15 PM – 3:35 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: A701
Session Type: Contributed Talk

    Presenter(s)

  • Kelly Watson

    English Teacher
    GOAL Digital Academy
    Bucyrus, Ohio, United States

  • DR

    Dionna Randas

    Director of Curriculum/ Principal
    GOAL Digital Academy
    Crestline, Ohio, United States

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • Stephanie Bowers

    Director of Special Education
    GOAL Digital Academy
    Delaware, OH, United States

Abstract Description :

You teach reading virtually, but how well do you know the needs of your students? Are you confident that you truly know their ability? Imagine my surprise, when in my first year of providing tiered interventions, I saw the true ability of a tenth-grade student with encoding and decoding issues who had developed coping strategies to get by. I was scared and sick to my stomach. Could I really help this student? The tiers turned into tears, late nights, and endless research. I learned I could, and so can you! In this session, we will learn how we can screen, progress monitor, and provide targeted and small group interventions to struggling readers to give them the confidence they need to re-engage, grow, and succeed. 
 

 

 

 

 

If someone was doing a search for your session in the program what 5 words might they use to search for and find your session.: Virtual Reading Interventions

Learning Objectives:

  • At the end of this session, instructional and intervention staff and leaders will be able to identify supplemental research-based reading intervention strategies and tools for implementing these strategies in the virtual elementary, middle, and high school classroom.
  • At the end of this session, instructional and intervention staff and leaders will be able to identify appropriate tools and next steps after screening to further diagnose the root cause of the struggling student virtually to provide appropriate support in the elementary, middle, and high school classroom.
  • At the end of this session, instructional and intervention staff and leaders will be able to identify tools and practices for progress monitoring students to provide reading interventions and inform the next steps in the virtual elementary, middle, and high school classroom.