Keys to Beginning Reading Higher Education Online Course

and Live-Virtual Professional Development

Are you looking to revamp your Foundational & Comprehensive Literacy Courses with additional evidence-based skills & strategies? Are you exploring how to better prepare your preservice teachers with tools they can immediately apply in their student teaching and future classrooms and collaborate with other faculty in a community of practice? This professional learning opportunity is for you!

About this Training

This practical course provides the background knowledge your preservice teachers need to effectively teach foundational literacy skills using an explicit instruction approach. The teaching suggestions are practical and designed to easily transfer to classroom lessons and can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. The course is tightly aligned with state literacy standards. Keys to Beginning Reading is accredited by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Center for Effective Reading Instruction.

Facilitated Online Format:  This facilitated-online option is for faculty who want to complete the online course and participate in live, virtual debrief sessions facilitated by a Keys to Literacy trainer. These sessions provide a collaborative opportunity to debrief activities completed during online modules, share ideas for connecting course content to classroom instruction, and have the facilitator answer questions and clarify online course content.

Training Topics:

The course is organized into 11 modules:

• Module 1: Literacy Basics
• Module 2: Oral Language
• Module 3: Phonemic Awareness
• Module 4: Phonics & Advanced Word Study
• Module 5: Fluency
• Module 6: Vocabulary
• Module 7: Sentence Structure
• Module 8: Text Structure
• Module 9: Comprehension
• Module 10: Reading Difficulties
• Module 11: Reading Assessment

Note for Faculty of Kansas Institutions of Higher Education: We are pleased to announce that Keys to Literacy is a Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) approved provider of science of reading structured literacy professional development, offering the comprehensive and practical Keys to Beginning Reading.

Facilitated Online Course Schedule:

Note, the facilitated sessions will be held via Zoom meeting from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT/ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

Participants will receive access to the online course by December 15, 2024

• Session One: February 14 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
• Session Two: March 14 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
• Session Three: March 28 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
• Session Four: April 11 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
• Session Five: April 25 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

ADDRESS TO SHIP BOOK

Please note that we will be mailing the training books to participants at their home address, so we need your home mailing address on the registration form. Allow 10 days for shipping after registration is received.

View a Printable Brochure/Registration form or register below.

REFUND/CANCELLATION POLICY

• If you cancel 3 days or more prior to training, you will be issued a 50% refund.
• No refunds will be issued for "no shows" or cancellations within 72 hours of training.
• Substitutions accepted.