Webinar
The Science of Decodables: What the Research Says
In This Webinar
Decodable texts are everywhere, but what exactly does the research tell us about them? What makes a text more decodable and less? Must a text be 100 percent decodable to work? What does the research tell us about students' responses to decodability? What should schools look for in decodables? Learn the answers to these frequently asked questions about the importance for using decodables in your reading instruction.
Meet the Speakers
Heidi Anne Mesmer
Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer is a literacy professor at the Virginia Tech School of Education. She works extensively with teachers, schools, and young readers, directing numerous initiatives to improve reading instruction, and studies beginning reading instruction and text difficulty. She is the author of Tools for Matching Readers to Texts, Reading Interventions in Primary Grades, and Teaching Skills for Complex Texts and has been published in The Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly, and more.