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Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students

In Person Training is offered in Waco

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June 26, 2025

8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.

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Cost

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  • $90.00 training fee (per person) payable to DTEC Waco

  • $200.00 per kit payable to, and ordered through Scottish Rite

  • Must have physical kit to attend training (see cost spreadsheet for highlighted materials)

  • Some additional classroom materials are recommended (estimated at $125.00, estimated cost breakdown is provided in a link below).

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Participants

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  • You MUST be a certified teacher and recommended by your district

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Registration

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Click here to apply for TURBO START: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students

Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia

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Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia, is a nine-week, evidence-based dyslexia intervention that can be used as part of a standard protocol dyslexia instruction program. The Turbo Start program provides a jump start for newly identified students with dyslexia, who need comprehensive dyslexia intervention, while awaiting placement in an intervention group. Turbo Start addresses the five specific evidence-based components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally, using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multi-sensory method of introduction and practice to meet specific needs of newly identified students with dyslexia. Turbo Start is a complementary dyslexia instruction program, which provides comprehensive, intensive, evidence-based instruction for students who are identified off-cycle and addresses characteristic weaknesses of students with dyslexia to support optimal growth, once placed in a sequential reading intervention program.

Key Features:

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  • The Turbo Start program was developed for use as off-cycle, drop in dyslexia program.

  • The content of Turbo Start is derived from principles of evidence-based dyslexia instruction and provides foundational training in five specific components of reading intervention.

  • Turbo Start provides flexibility in the intervention timeline to prepare students to enter dyslexia services in a group setting with fidelity.

Five Components of Effective Reading Instruction:

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Jet contains the five components of effective reading instruction identified by research from the National Reading Panel. Jet addresses each component by:

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  • Phonemic Awareness - following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech sound production and spelling-sound patterns.

  • Phonics - providing a systematic approach for single word decoding.

  • Fluency - using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help individuals read newly encountered text more fluently.

  • Vocabulary - featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text.

  • Reading Comprehension - teaching individuals to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies in narrative and expository text (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring).

Cost breakdown sheet coming soon. Check application for basic fees associated with training.

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