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Essential Literacy Skills: What’s Missing?

Overview

Title: Goddard - On Demand - GSS Complete Pre-K: Introduction

Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes

Available On Demand

Summary

During this free webinar, you will:

  • Learn which crucial skill can boost literacy scores and is essential for overall literacy success 
  • Evaluate your year through a literacy lens to find what might be missing in your instruction
  • Review the fundamental skills that support balanced literacy
  • Discover easy strategies to incorporate the foundational skills and building blocks for better comprehensive literacy

This is an introductory webinar best suited for teachers and administrators in grades K–5.

Katrina Erikson, OTR

 

Occupational Therapist Learning Without Tears National Presenter

Katrina received her Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She has been providing OT services since 1991 to children and adolescents in a variety of settings from hospitals, private practice, and public schools. She believes that collaboration with teachers and parents is essential to student success. Her experience in using the Learning Without Tears (LWT) curriculums includes private tutoring services, summer camps, and as therapeutic intervention in her OT practice. Katrina has been presenting for Learning Without Tears since 2000. As a National Presenter for LWT, she provides training to teachers, specialists, and parents in the use of handwriting assessment and the Handwriting Without Tears, Get Set for School, and Keyboarding Without Tears curriculums.

 

Keith R. Kline, OTR/L

Occupational Therapist Learning Without Tears

Keith R. Kline received his Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. He has been practicing pediatric OT in a school setting since September 1999. He currently works in the Coventry Public Schools in Coventry, RI where he works with all students, especially those with exceptionalities, from the Pre-K to middle school level. He has over 13 years of experience working with the Learning Without Tears family of products: Get Set for School, Handwriting Without Tears, and Keyboarding Without Tears. He has provided numerous presentations using these programs and is a national workshop presenter for Learning Without Tears. He offers private tutoring sessions for those families that wish to help their students improve their handwriting and keyboarding skills.