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SUMMARY:Self-Paced Wilson Reading System Introductory Course
DESCRIPTION:This asynchronous 16.5-hour course (30-day access) provides participants with an overview of the Wilson Reading System (WRS) and serves as the prerequisite for WRS Level I Certification Training. This course examines the intensive intervention reading instruction necessary for students in grades two and above with persistent and significant phonological-coding deficits. Participants learn about dyslexia (indicators, misconceptions, neurobiological aspects, and prevalence), typical versus atypical reading acquisition, appropriate student identification and placement, and key components and principles of instruction, including the factors necessary for high-quality program implementation. How to teach phonology (including phonemic awareness), morphology, and orthography in an integrated, explicit, systematic, and multisensory way is demonstrated and practiced during the course. Participants explore the standard ten-part WRS Lesson Plan and practice planning, delivering, and individualizing a WRS Lesson while receiving modeling and feedback from a Wilson® Credentialed Trainer (W.C.T.).\nPrerequisite None\nDuration 30-day access (16.5 hours) for asynchronous version\nGraduate Credit One graduate credit (optional) is available through Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA, upon completion of course requirements. Please see Process for Graduate Credit for details.\nCourse Objectives\nUpon completion of the course, participants will be able to:\n\nDefine dyslexia and understand its prevalence and impact on the acquisition of reading skills and cognitive processes.\nExplain the process of identifying students with a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia, or other characteristics that indicate the need for intensive, multisensory instruction with the WRS.\nUnderstand the Response to Intervention (RTI) model and how to implement it.\nDemonstrate understanding of the key components of WRS instruction: alphabetic knowledge, rapid naming skills/word retrieval, sound-symbol relationships, word identification, accuracy, automaticity, phonology, morphology, orthography, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.\nDemonstrate understanding of the WRS principles of instruction: direct, explicit, structured, sequential, integrated, multisensory, synthetic, analytical, diagnostic, prescriptive, mastery/automaticity, cumulative, metacognitive, and emotionally sound.\nIdentify the lesson components and procedures for Lesson Block 1 (word study/foundational reading skills), Lesson Block 2 (spelling/foundational writing skills), and Lesson Block 3 (fluency/comprehension) of the WRS Lesson Plan.\nPractice and prepare a ten-part WRS Lesson Plan.\n\nParticipants may enroll in the WRS Level I Certification Training or the online course WRS Intensive Instruction for the Non-Responsive Reader (Steps 1-6) within five years of completing a WRS Introductory Course.\nMaterials\n\nWRS Introductory Course Manual (synchronous version)\nWRS Lesson Plan Practice Resources (synchronous version)\nAccess to course via Wilson Academy\nWRS Introductory Set (recommended)\nWilson Academy® Wilson Reading System Learning Community membership provided after completion of course (12-month access)\n\nCompletion Requirements\n\nAttend/complete all 16.5 hours of course\nParticipate in all instructor-led course activities (synchronous version)\nA total of eight online assessments with 15 questions in each; score of 80% is required to proceed; first test submission is score of record (asynchronous version)\nKnowledge checks and activities embedded throughout online course; participation is required to proceed in course (asynchronous version)\nWrite and practice the ten-part WRS Lesson Plan\nProvide feedback via the course evaluation form\nWith both versions, participants will receive Acknowledgement of Completion certificates (AOC) for completing the course\n\n
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