How to Deliver Engaging Reading Lessons Using Minimal Technology

Gain strategies to increase student engagement with low-tech methods and learn how to deliver every part of a structured literacy lesson online.

What will you learn:

This webinar will be full of demonstrations.  Michelle will show multiple ways to engage your students during a structured literacy lesson with limited prep so that you can start using new techniques and tools tomorrow.

Have you ever wondered how to include props, maintain multi-sensory methods, and beat the tech overwhelm?  Then this webinar is for you!  Michelle will take you through every part of the structured literacy lesson, including sound card drills, word-building activities, fluency practice, and how to use decodable text. She will demonstrate how to use your materials and turn them into a reading lesson using the video and the document camera—all without relying on slides or website subscriptions.

Participants will receive:

*A workbook to support a structured literacy lesson with less technology

*A special bundle of editable word card games to start the new school year

Michelle Breitenbach is an energetic and motivating presenter who will get you on your feet. She is a certified dyslexia practitioner and early literacy specialist from Boston, Massachusetts. After working as a special educator for seven years, she established her own company in Miami, Florida, Read to Rewire. She supports students online as a private educator and coaches teachers globally. Michelle is passionate about teaching others how to engage students through less technology, movement, and games in the classroom and online, precisely those extra wiggly, inflexible thinkers. Michelle was teaching online for over a year when the pandemic occurred. She supported the transition to online teaching with free resources and webinars during the pandemic. Michelle loves creating unique resources to support teachers and maintain student interest with games and bursts of movement. Her interactive webinars have focused on elevating student engagement, maintaining multi-sensory methods, minimizing tech online for successful lessons, setting up behavior systems, and weaving quick motivating activities into each part of a structured literacy lesson.

Formerly spoke at:

Climbing the Ladder of Reding Conference on March 27, 2021

Topic:  Engaging Struggling Readers with Less Technology

Hosted by Wimberly Dyslexia Center

Webinar Presenter for Reading with TLC (Lively Letters)

Topic: Kicking Phonics Boredom to the Curb with Games and Movement

Topic: Success with the Document Camera for Online or In the Classroom (over 1500 sign-ups)

Topic: Setting Students up for Success from Day 1 Online

Presenter for Active Educator

Topic:  Online Behavior Systems that Work

Presenter for  Tutor Success Academy

Topic: Success as an Online Tutor with Minimal Technology