The Reading League California is excited to partner with Collaborative Classroom to host our very first launch event! Please join us as we view the documentary The Right to Read and then engage in a discussion of how we can advance the science of reading movement in our state. The Right to Read shares the stories of NAACP activist Kareem Weaver, a teacher, and two families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read. Questions? Please email info@ca.thereadingleague.org

Do you have students who can decode relatively well but struggle to spell correctly? Join us as we welcome Dr. Shelley Blackwell to discuss how the reading brain learns to spell and how to analyze spelling errors to direct instruction. Evidence-based instruction ideas and interventions will be provided to use at all tiers of spelling instruction. Register using this link!

Join us to learn about a new law that will require schools to implement universal screening in kindergarten through 2nd grade for reading delays, including the risk of dyslexia. Speakers of this event are Megan Potente and Lori DePole, State Co-Directors for Decoding Dyslexia CA. If you are interested in learning about this new California’s screening requirement and it’s impact on literacy outcomes, make sure to register and be part of the discussion. This article from DDCA provides information on this new law. Register for this free, virtual event at:  bit.ly/TRL-CAPotente

Join us for a conversation with Lindsay Kemeny as she shares highlights from her book, 7 Might Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K to 3 Reading Success. Gather with like-minded educators to learn some new strategies and walk away with great ideas to implement in your classroom.

Join us as we welcome Dr. Young-Suk Grace Kim, Senior Associate Dean in the School of Education at UC Irvine, to learn about how executive functions and morphological awareness connect to reading and listening comprehension.

Join us as we hear how the Lancaster School District embarked on a journey to ensure ALL of their students can learn to read proficiently. Ask questions and gain insider knowledge on how to get this work off the ground and spread to all schools in your district.

Todd Collins is the Founder of the California Reading Coalition. As a self-proclaimed data nerd, he has collected extensive data on the state of literacy in CA. Join us as Todd shares the current data and implications for our work.

TRL CA is so excited to welcome producer, writer, and star of Hopeville: How to Win the Reading Wars, Harvey Hubbell, as he shares his film and leads a discussion with the audience. Hopeville tells both the story of three diverse elementary schools that are addressing major reading achievement issues by adopting a structured literacy approach and Harvey's personal struggle with dyslexia and learning to read. It's a movie certain to uplift, inspire, and spur action and we're thrilled to bring it to our CA chapter!

Join us for an intriguing and informative session with Dr. Julie Washington from UC Irvine. She will share how learning to read depends upon learning the phonemic, phonological, syntactic and morphological structure of words. For children who speak varieties of English that differ from General American English these domains of language may differ significantly from text, making it harder to learn to read and write. In the case of African American children in particular, use of the language variety African American English has been found to influence outcomes in reading, writing, spelling and assessment and this is particularly true [...]