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We hope you find all you're seeking!
Please contact us with any questions or comments.
Most workshops are being held online for now. Please contact us to be added to the mailing list.
If you would like to schedule a workshop, please contact us.
Word Revelation Workshops are offered in order to show instructors(-to-be) how to use the materials in the Word Revelation kits. The workshops and kits were created for the purpose of making it possible for all students to learn to read well, and all instructors to be equipped to teach even the most struggling readers.
During a Word Revelation Workshop, participants complete a sampling of the 36 Word Revelation activities, enough so that they will be able to complete the remaining activities in the future.
The workshop has 2 main components, which alternate throughout each day of the workshop:
(1) Participants will do or begin the same activities that their students will do, in order to have experienced them personally before helping students do them, and
(2) Participants will also learn a framework to help them make instructional decisions such as when it’s time go on to the next step with a student, and what direction to take in general for each session with students, so that the students are never frustrated and never bored.
The Word Revelation activities help students become accurate and then automatic readers through decoding, learning to monitor their own comprehension as they go. The activities cover 8 main concepts about the patterns of written English. In the first half of the workshop, participants complete activities that will allow their students to become accurate and then automatic in applying the first 3 decoding concepts. Then in the second half, participants do activities that allow the students to become accurate (and begin to be automatic) on the last 5 decoding concepts.
Lastly, participants learn how to help students apply their decoding skills to read an actual text (a book, an article, etc.), so that they use their skills to ‘get the words off the page’ while also thinking about the meaning of the text. Participants will learn how to effectively prepare any text to use with their students in this way. Further strategies and activities for application of these skills are optionally covered in a later Dive to Rise workshop.
Are you a classroom teacher who would like clarity about how to reach struggling readers? Have you been struggling to help your students? Are you mystified by how to make spelling skills stick? Are you in awe that your high-schoolers have made it this far without sufficient reading skills? Do you wonder where to start with your elementary or middle school students who arrived in your class without the skills you expected or desired? Word Revelation has worked well for others in your situation.
Are you a homeschool parent who has tried 'every' reading program out there, but always gets stuck after a certain point? Would you like a way to help struggling readers of different ages at the same time? Word Revelation has worked well for others in your situation.
Are you a principal who would like a reasonable solution for how to improve Tier I instruction in your teachers' classrooms? Are you a reading specialist who would like a way to coordinate easily with the classroom teachers? Although you may not desire or need to attend an entire training, you are welcome to do so or to stop by for the first hour or two to get a sense of the Word Revelation approach. Word Revelation has worked well for others in your situation.
Are you a parent or grandparent who is tired of watching your child suffer due to difficulty with reading, spelling, or writing? Is your child melting down when it comes to completing homework? Does school seem harder than it's meant to be for your child? Word Revelation has worked well for others in your situation.
Do you assist with reading instruction in some way, or desire to do so? Are you a teacher's aide, a professional or volunteer tutor, a speech-language therapist, or just a person interested in helping maximize the literacy skills of some students in your local area? Word Revelation has worked well for others in your situation.
Workshops are scheduled when you or someone else asks for them. They are usually being held online for now.
Past workshops have been held in school classrooms and staff lounges, church common rooms, living rooms, dining rooms, homeschool-work areas, community center conference rooms, libraries, and prison education spaces. The only need is for each participant to have a place to sit and a workspace about the size of a classroom desk -- but that space can vary from a spot at a dining room table to a classroom desk to a card table or tray table.
Word Revelation workshops include about 13-15 hours of instruction, which can be given in time slots that work well for your group.
A 45- to 60-minute introductory presentation can be given in order for you or your group to decide whether you'd like to continue.
The workshops have been given as 2.5 or 3 days, 4 half-days, a series of 1.5- to 3-hour after-school sessions with teachers, and a series of 1-hour sessions before school.
The workshop sessions can be back-to-back or spread out over time: for example, on a Friday and Saturday, or 2 Fridays in a row, 4 Monday or Saturday mornings in a row, or 1 afternoon a month for 3 or 4 months, or other arrangements that fit your group's schedule.
We strive to make our workshops and materials available at a do-able cost to you. We do not want finances to prevent any anyone from (re)learning to read, write, and spell well, with confidence and joy! We will discuss pricing when scheduling a workshop.
If you would like to schedule an online workshop or an in-person workshop in your local area, register for a scheduled workshop, or ask questions about Word Revelation workshops, please contact us.
