EBLI school trainings provide educators with instruction on the components of literacy including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The focus of EBLI training is to teach educators research-based literacy strategies and activities that can efficiently be infused across the curriculum in whole class, small group, and individual instruction. There will be opportunities for the staff to practice the strategies with each other during the trainings and to observe students being instructed in EBLI on video and/or in person. Instruction in spelling is explicitly taught and integrated throughout EBLI training.
*** IMPORTANT: EBLI trainings are intended to provide educators with the necessary information and materials to teach students directly; they will not have permission to or be capable of teaching other educators how to teach EBLI. ***
Below is additional information on specific EBLI trainings for schools and a calendar of upcoming trainings and consultings.
Who is the training for?
This 3-day EBLI training is for classroom teachers at the Pre-kindergarten through 1st grade levels.
What is the training about?
This training provides trainees with instruction and practice in teaching research-based reading skills and concepts. Research shows that by 2nd-3rd grade, students are ‘learning to read’ rather than ‘reading to learn,’ which requires Pre K-1st grade student instruction to be systematic, developmentally appropriate, and organized to deliver the necessary skills and concepts at an accelerated pace.
Lesson plans
Upon completion, trainees receive 30 weeks of daily lesson plans to directly implement EBLI instruction in the classroom. All EBLI skills, strategies, and activities can be infused into your current reading curriculum.
After the training
Consulting is mandatory for this 3-day training. A certified EBLI trainer goes to your site to work with trainees in their educational setting. As implementing EBLI is a process that focuses on teaching and coaching the teachers in refining their practice at delivering literacy instruction, consulting is crucial in assisting educators to easily infuse EBLI strategies and activities in all reading, spelling, and writing instruction. To learn more about onsite consulting, download the EBLI Consulting Guidelines.
Who is the training for?
This 3-day EBLI training is for 2nd – 4th grade classroom teachers as well as for any staff that delivers remedial reading instruction to 2nd – 12th graders (Title I, Special Education, RTI, and Remedial Reading classes or pull out).
What is the training about?
By 3rd grade, students are expected to be done ‘learning to read’ and must start ‘reading to learn’. At this point, many students fall further behind in reading and writing, resulting in an inability to manage grade level expectations or perform proficiently on grade level assessments. Teachers in this training are taught how to infuse EBLI into their content area instruction, assisting students in improving their reading and spelling ability within grade level content. Remedial reading educators learn how to efficiently remediate students 2nd grade and older and assist them in reading authentic text accurately, fluently, and with good comprehension. The goal of remedial instruction is for students to become independent, proficient readers and to be able to return to their classroom prepared to managing the grade level expectations as well as improve their performance on assessment measures.
Lesson plans
Upon completion, trainees receive a set of 15 lessons. These goal of these lessons is twofold: to help trainees become familiar with teaching EBLI and to systematically expose their students to the EBLI strategies and activities. Once they have completed the lessons, educators infuse EBLI into all instruction that involves reading, spelling, and writing.
After the training
Consulting is mandatory for this 3-day training where a certified EBLI trainer travels on-site to work with trainees in the classroom. As EBLI focuses on teaching the teacher, we help to refine their technique and get them comfortable with infusing EBLI strategies and activities throughout the whole day. To learn more about onsite consulting, download the EBLI Consulting Guidelines.
Who is the training for?
This 2-day EBLI training is designed for 5th – 12th grade content area teachers. This training is often used for college readiness and ACT/SAT improvement.
What is the training about?
This training provides trainees the knowledge to infuse EBLI instruction into the classroom. Trainees then are able to teach their students the logic of the English alphabetic code along with perteninet vocabulary information, which results in improving accurate reading and spelling of high level words and vocabulary knowledge.
Lesson Plans
Upon completion of training, teachers receive EBLI’s Secondary Vocabulary curriculum of 40 lessons of EBLI-ized ACT/SAT words that includes definitions and prefix and suffix instruction. EBLI secondary instruction typically results in students improving reading accuracy, speed, and comprehension and writing as well as increases in EXPLORE, Plan, and ACT/SAT scores.
After the Training
Trainees receive access to EBLI’s online library of instructional videos for no additional charge. There is no on-site consulting required for the 2-day Secondary Training. To learn more about onsite consulting, download the EBLI Consulting Guidelines.