LTR Tutoring Associates, LLC

Tutoring, Diagnostic and Teacher Training Center

2 Whitney Rd
Concord, NH 03301
ph: 603-226-7190

Future Offerings!

  

Professional Development Opportunities

listed below, download and complete a registration page, then mail to secure your spot

              

 

An Annual Professional Development Day to Benefit the Masonic Learning Center for Children in Nashua 

"Vocabulary Instruction for Students with Low Level Decoding Skills" This presentation examines the rationale and research principles of vocabulary instruction with practical applications.  Participants will learn tools and techniques to optimize word study opportunities within a multisensory structured language lesson such as Orton-Gillingham or Wilson.

Presenter: Barbara Wilson, M.S. Ed.

 

"Sight Words You Can See" Instead of using the typical approach of asking students to learn the irregular spelling patterns by rote memorization, Sight Words You Can See makes a connection between the irregular spelling patterns and the way the words are suppose to sound, using imagery, mnemonics, and humorous stories to make long lasting impressions for students.

Presenter: Penny Castagnozzi- program author

Penny Castaggnozzi has a degree in elementary education and has devoted her efforts to the diagnosis and treatment of reading disorders since 1991.  As a reading therapist in an urban elementary school, she worked alongside Nancy Telian and helped pilot the Lively Letters Program with students that had varying degrees of reading difficulties.  As co-founder of Reading With TLC and Telian-Cas Learning Concepts, Inc. Penny has been key to the development and implementation of the Reading with TLC seminars.  She has supplemented her on-site and off site Reading with TLC seminars with professional development training seminars for various educational institutions, including the Learning Disabilities Network, the International Dyslexia Association, Massachuetts General Hospital, MGH Institute of Health Professions, and the Massachuetts Speech and Hearing Association.

Friday October 24th, 2008   Code #MLCB1024

8:30-9:00 Check-in & Continental Breakfast

9:00-noon Sight Words You Can See

noon-1:00 Lunch on your own

1:00-3:30 Vocabulary Instruction for Students with Low Level Decoding Skills

Cost $125         5.5 professional development hours

St. Joseph Hospital Educational Center, Lecture Hall 5Woodward Ave. (Next to the hospital)                              Nashua, NH 03060 (Parking in the parking garage)

Space is limited early registration is strongly recommended 


Barbara A. Wilson, M.S.Ed., is the director of Wilson Language Training and co-founder of the Wilson Learning Center for children and adults with language learning disabilities. Her experience includes special education public school teacher and reading therapist at the Language Disorders Unit at the Massachusetts General hospital. Barbara has served on several national and educational organizations and is a founding fellow of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators.

Author of several publications on literacy, in 2004, Barbara was invited to the White House to report on literacy instruction in middle and high schools to the President’s Domestic Policy Advisor on Education.

Barbara is also chairperson of the Advisory Council for the Language and Literacy graduate program at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

 

2 Whitney Rd
Concord, NH 03301
ph: 603-226-7190