Top Ten Tools 95% Group

The Top Ten Tools 95% Group is an on-line reading course, unlike any reading course or professional development previously available to teachers. The course content is based upon a firm foundation of proven knowledge and pedagogy, research and practice that truly informs the daily work teachers do to teach their students to read.

The course design leads teachers through updated research and guides them to make connections to practice: How to transfer the knowledge to everyday practice in their classrooms.

The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools is developed around ten units, or Tools, each reflecting a component of reading instruction that has been neglected, misrepresented, or one that needs updating with new information that’s been released over the past few years. Teacher knowledge is the primary tool that will impact instruction and student achievement. This is why, for this course, the use of the term tools refers to a combination of both knowledge and practice. This is a 45 hour course.

COMPETENCIES:

Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading (IDA, 2018)

Standard 1: Foundations of Literacy Acquisition

1.8 Understand the Foundations of Literacy Acquisition including knowing the phases of typical developmental progression of oral language, phoneme awareness, decoding, printed word recognition, spelling, fluency, comprehension, and written expression

Standard 2 Understand Diverse Reading Profiles, Including Dyslexia

Standard 3: Assessment

3.5 Know the principles of progress-monitoring and reporting Curriculum Based Measures including graphing techniques

Standard 4. Understand Structured Literacy Instruction as it relates to- phonological and phonemic awareness; phonics and word recognition; automatic, fluent reading; vocabulary; listening and reading comprehension; and written expression

Standard 5 Professional Dispositions and Practices

5.1 Strive to do no harm and to act in the best interests of struggling readers with dyslexia and other reading disorders

5.4 Respect objectivity by reporting assessment and treatment results accurately, and truthfully