Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students
VIRTUAL Training is offered by DTEC Waco via Zoom (Click on application below for details)
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Cost
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$110 training fee (per person) payable to DTEC Waco
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$200.00 per kit payable to, and ordered through, Scottish Rite
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Must have physical kit to attend training (see cost spreadsheet for highlighted materials)
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Some additional classroom materials are recommended (estimated cost of $125)
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Participants
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You MUST be a certified teacher and recommended by your district
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You MUST be a teacher of Reading
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Registration
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Complete the application below and email it to jennifer@dtecwaco.com
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One registration per person
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Click on the following link, Scottish Rite Account Request, to request an update to your existing account
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Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified
Students with Dyslexia​
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 the specific needs of newly identified students with dyslexia. Turbo Start is a complementary dyslexia instruction program that 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 an off-cycle, drop-in dyslexia program.
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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.
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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.
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Phonics - providing a systematic approach for single word decoding.
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Fluency - using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help individuals read newly encountered text more fluently.
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Vocabulary - featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text.
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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).
Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students
