Read2Learn Information Session
Do you have questions about using Read2Learn materials?
This session will provide an overview of Read2Learn, the rationale and general structure of the materials, and preview a few units.
Project Leaders Shane Pearson and Nathaniel Swain will also answer questions from educators interested in implementing the units.
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What is Read2Learn?
Read2Learn (r2L) is a set of curriculum materials for teaching reading comprehension within a knowledge-rich curriculum. The materials are all developed by volunteers and are free to use.
You can access all of the Read2Learn materials for free here on our new platform (you have to create a free account).
Project Leaders
Shane Pearson
I am a Speech-Language Pathologist specialising in literacy difficulties and am passionate about effective whole-school literacy instruction practices. While working in schools and private practice in an intervention capacity, I became aware of the many instructional casualties caused by non-evidence-based literacy teaching. This drove me to develop a freely-available spelling and decoding curriculum. I began work at my current school in Melbourne’s south-east in late 2018 solely to improve spelling results. However, implementing evidence-based spelling instruction has been just the beginning of this school’s journey of aligning teaching to the Science of Reading and Learning.
Dr Nathaniel Swain
I am a Teacher, Instructional Coach, Researcher and Writer. I am passionate about language, literacy and learning, and effective and engaging teaching for all students. I have taught a range of students in Primary and Secondary settings, and I have a blog for teachers called Dr Swain’s Cognitorium. I am a Senior Lecturer in La Trobe’s School of Education, and am part of the SOLAR Lab.