Broward: reading workshop/September 11, 2008

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ACE Chair Shapiro wrote: For your information and sharing. ---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:15 PMSubject: reading workshop/September 11, 2008To: fcc10broward@..., deniseslist , jamunoz@..., podsangels@..., info@..., bmorgan@..., info@..., vision@..., srodwin@..., wendybellack@..., shhoaglund@..., babmediate@..., makeadifference4kids@..., brianfr@..., colleenFNDLS@..., margarita@..., "Yvette F. Fernandez" , " L. " , steveo2394@..., cpeterson@..., anita@..., dennis@..., slkimbo46@..., Rnewman@..., acechair@..., smstarin@... Parent Advocate Groups & Organizations: Please forward this information to parents in your network, as an additional reminder. I still have a few vacancies in this September 11th reading workshop which is limited to 25 participants. Thanks! DiLuzio FDLRS Program Specialist, Parent Services Broward County Public Schools Exceptional Student Education 600 SE Third Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Phone: Fax: School Board of Broward County Exceptional Student Education Newsletter Reading Workshop September 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Greetings Parents! The District's Exceptional Student Education (ESE)

Department and Florida Diagnostic & Learning Resources System (FDLRS) is hosting a reading workshop on Thursday, September 11 titled "Great Leaps Reading Success: Research Based Program to Help Your Child at Home." The workshop takes place in Training Room A at the District's South Area Office (1643 N. on Parkway, Building H, Sunrise), from 9 a.m.-noon. The program is limited to 25 participants. Eleanor Goldberg, District Reading Curriculum Development Specialist, will facilitate the program. Parents of students in grades 3-12 will learn how to help their child become a better reader at home using current research-based practices through the Great Leaps Reading Program (www.greatleaps.com). Great Leaps has its

origins in over thirty years of instructional research and practice from the world of precision assessment and teaching. Each parent will borrow a Great Leaps reading kit of age appropriate materials to instruct their child in reading at home (approximately 10 minutes daily; 3 times per week minimum). Great Leaps is divided into three areas including: phonics (developing and mastering essential sight-sound relationships and/or sound awareness skills), sight phrases (mastering high frequency words while developing and improving focusing skills and the ability to "chunk" small pieces of meaning) and reading fluency (using age-appropriate stories specifically designed to build reading fluency, reading motivation, and proper intonation). Parents attending this program will be required to participate in monthly follow-up meetings that will be held during the day in the morning. These monthly follow-up sessions will be scheduled at the first session.

About the Presenter: Eleanor Goldberg works collaboratively with Core Curriculum and Exceptional Student Education Departments providing support to teachers who work with students with severe deficits in reading. She provides teacher training in administration and interpretation of diagnostic reading assessments and interventions. Ms. Goldberg was part of the initial Broward County Struggling Reader Committee whose task was to develop a district Struggling Reader Chart that would be a resource for all schools. She has presented Broward County's Reading Plan at the national state, and local

level. Ms. Goldberg has taught reading at the elementary, middle, and high school level. To register for workshops, contact DiLuzio/FDLRS Program Specialist-Parent

Services at or via e-mail at (kimberly.diluzio@... ). Please visit the ESE website for additional workshop information at: http://www.broawrd.k12.fl.us/studentsupport/ese/html/WORKSHOP.htm Hope you can join us! DiLuzio FDLRS-Parent Services phone: -- ACE Chair