Scholastic RED Online Course:
Building Foundational Skills: Phonics, Word Study, and Comprehension
This online course focuses on deepening knowledge of effective decoding instruction and the benefits of using an intervention program to accelerate reading success for older students. Teachers learn at their own pace, have the opportunity to earn graduate credit, and stay current on research-based strategies and best practices. Each RED online course includes hundreds of downloadable teacher and student resources for use in the classroom.

Learning Benefits:

• Enables educators to teach foundational reading skills, including phonemic awareness, breaking words into syllables, and identifying morphemes, while emphasizing word meaning
• Guides teachers in implementing an effective intervention program that meets the individual needs of older readers
• Allows teachers to integrate effective word meaning instruction into phonics lessons to improve decoding and comprehension