Date: Sept 27, 2023 (TO BE RESCHEDULED)
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Type: In-Person
Location: WRESA
200 Ridgefield Ct, Suite 206
Asheville, NC 28806
Fee: $45 WRESA Members
$70 Non-members
CEUs: 5 Contact Hours
Limit: 50 Participants
Audience: K-3 classroom teachers, reading specialists, literacy tutors
LETRS Volume 1 focuses heavily on the word recognition strands of Scarborough’s Reading
Rope (Scarborough, 2001). This session will provide a deep dive into the classroom application
of the evidence-aligned reading instruction practices from Volume 1. Participants will unpack the
LETRS Phonics and Word Reading survey and learn how to group students based on skill
deficits. This session will support educators with reviewing quality decodable texts and pairing
those texts with the general phonics lesson plan (appendix A) as well as the transfer to text
process. Participants will review phoneme articulation and learn how to incorporate this into any
phonics scope and sequence. Educators will leave with hand-on techniques to support
orthographic mapping during multimodal auditory drill practice. Participants will need to bring
LETRS Volume 1.
Presenter: Cindy Hutchins is a district Title 1 Literacy Coach for Buncombe County Schools. She has
worked as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and district level literacy
interventionist coach and is passionate about the scientific approach to reading instruction.
For further information about this course, please contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org.