A 20th Year Celebration of Scarborough's Reading Rope

Session Dates

Tuesday February 23, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday March 30, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday April 27, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday May 25, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday June 29, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday July 27, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday August 31, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday September 28, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday October 26, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar
Tuesday November 30, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Webinar

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This series celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Reading Rope created by Dr. Hollis Scarborough in 2001. The origins of Dr. Scarborough’s Reading Rope date back to her lectures for parents on the complexities involved in learning to read. Originally, she spoke of skilled reading as resembling the “strands” of a rope.

The Reading Rope consists of lower and upper strands: the word-recognition strands (phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition of familiar words) work together as the reader becomes accurate, fluent, and increasingly automatic with repetition and practice. Concurrently, the language-comprehension strands (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge) reinforce one another and then weave together with the word-recognition strands to produce a skilled reader (International Dyslexia Association, 2001, 2 (7)).

This series will commence with an overview of Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope and summary of the series followed by a monthly series of lectures and discussion related to each strand of the reading rope.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• List the strands of the reading rope
• Explain the strands of the lower strands of the reading rope and their impact on word reading accuracy and automaticity
• Explain the strands of the upper strands of the reading rope and their impact on language comprehension

Target Audience

General Educators, Special Educators, Reading Specialists, Administrators K-8 Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this event. Contact: Kellly Kapp, at 717-901-2271, or kkapp@pattan.net.