Workshops

Reading Research in the Classroom
Why Should I Care?

Presented by Peggy McCardle, Ph.D. and Sally Grimes, Ed.M.
April 7, 2010 - Black Rock Country Club
April 8, 2010 - The Reading Institute
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Workshop Description
Peggy McCardle, nationally known researcher and author of Reading Research in Action, among other publications, and Sally Grimes, her colleague and veteran provider of professional development and consultant in literacy, will discuss why research matters to the classroom teacher. They will provide information and ways to implement the “Magnificent Seven” with related hands-on instructional activities and resources.

Oral Language, Decoding (Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Knowledge), Reading Fluency, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Spelling, and Writing.

Some of the issues to be discussed:

• Myths about intervention for struggling readers & Dual Language Learners

• Early intervention successes - What We Have Learned

• Recent brain studies - “Cliff’s Notes”

• How reading research has changed in the past 15 years

• “Research-based” versus “Evidence-based” - What’s the difference?

• Why “Literacy” includes Language Development

• Why Teachers must have a firm knowledge base from which to draw

• PLUS…A “GPS” to Implementation: Activities, Websites, Resources, Free Webinars, Tool Kits

The Presenters:

Peggy McCardle, Ph.D.
Peggy McCardle holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Pennsylvania State University, a masters of public health from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and has been a nationally certified speech-language pathologist. She has held academic positions at South Carolina State College, the University of Mississippi, and has taught at various other universities. She has held clinical positions at Womack Army Community Hospital and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Since 1992, she has worked at the National Institutes of Health in various positions; currently she is a Branch Chief and research program director at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where she has built and managed research programs in various areas of reading, reading disabilities, language development and bilingualism.

Sally Grimes, Ed.M.
• Speaker, Educational Consultant, Provider of Professional Development in the area of Reading Development for over 15 years for administrators, teachers, parents, community groups, state initiatives and private entities

• Served on development team – MA Licensure Test, Foundations of Reading

• Served as one of three Lead Trainers for the Massachusetts Reading First and Bay State Readers grants & designer of the professional development plan

• Public school special educator, adjunct university professor and author of course work for literacy, as well as articles on reading and differentiated curriculum

• First Admissions Director – Landmark School, Prides Crossing, MA

• Ed.M. Reading and Human Development – Harvard Graduate School of Education