Our strategy-packed trainings provide brain-friendly, differentiated reading strategies that close the reading gap fast for at-risk readers K-12. We share powerful strategies that increase fluency and comprehension quickly, motivate the most disengaged students, challenge and stretch students’ abilities, use their strongest learning pathways, accommodate their diverse interests and reading styles, and achieve unprecedented success! Our trainers are dynamic, inspirational, award-winning teachers and administrators who have implemented our program with great success. And our nationally validated scientific research verifies the remarkable success rate of our work in classrooms all across America. Read our research.

Here’s a fast overview of the powerful strategies our trainers will share. Your staff will learn how to:

• Identify and focus on students’ learning strengths.Close the reading gap for special education students.
• Raise the English and reading levels of ELL/ESL students.Greatly increase fluency and comprehension with Marie Carbo’s continuum of assisted reading methods.
• Learn how to record materials for maximum gains in fluency and comprehension.
• Use and manage powerful differentiated reading intervention based on best practices.
• Add active learning and learning centers to classrooms.
• Manage and teach a wide range of reading levels and multiple groups.
• Minimize the use of worksheets. Provide a wealth of hands-on and kinesthetic activities that deepen learning.
• Use our high-interest, recorded, leveled stories, comic books, and chapter books with follow-up reading games.
• Redesign classrooms to accommodate various learning styles and maximize learning.
• Motivate students who now dislike reading!

Improve all your reading programs with this sizzling, inspiring, strategy-packed seminar – including special education, regular ed, ESOL, in-class, before/after school, summer school, and tutoring programs. Our senior consultants offer powerful, differentiated reading strategies that work with any reading program, make learning to read easy and fun, and enable educators to achieve high rates of success with at-risk readers.

Your teachers will learn research-validated, best practices that will make their teaching more exciting, enjoyable, and effective!

• Teach through the strongest learning pathways of at-risk readers. Learn more.
• Raise fluency fast with our Continuum of Assisted Reading Methods.
• Learn easy, remarkable ways to reduce dyslexia quickly. Learn more.
• Eliminate reading myths that block achievement.
• Increase fluency and comprehension fast with Marie Carbo’s special recording method. Learn more.
• Discover motivating, hands-on materials that enhance memory and reinforce reading skills.
• Discover the power of choice and how to manage choice in your program.
• Confidently use management strategies that maximize learning.
• Improve any reading program!

Fees and Materials

First 30 participants - $2750 (Includes $1500 in materials)
Each additional participant - $25 each
Groups over 50 call for further discounts
Seminar is five hours
Saturdays available

Two-Day Training
Bring Our Powerful Two-Day Training to Your School Or District
This training provides even more powerful strategies than the one-day seminar, and there’s more time for in-depth teaching, modeling, and practice of important concepts and techniques. The fee for a two-day training is $3950 (includes $2500 in materials.) For more than 30 participants, there is an additional fee of $35 per person for classroom and training materials (an $85 value). The trainer’s expenses are additional. Note: For fewer than 30 people, please call for fees.

Reading Labs
Develop powerful reading labs that close the achievement gap for secondary at-risk readers. The Carbo Reading Lab at Immokalee High School reported a two-year gain in reading comprehension in only 7 weeks! If you want to make a difference in the lives of at-risk readers at the secondary level, this is the training your teachers need. The fee for a one-day training is approximately $1950, plus the trainer’s expenses. The materials and equipment needed to start a lab cost approximately $2,500. A limited number of 3-day training sessions are available. Our 3 days of training provide important concepts to lab teachers, model interview and teaching techniques with students, and recommend specific equipment and reading materials needed.

Contact our Staff Development Dept.
at 1 (800) 331-3117, ext. 119.
Fax: (516) 921-5591 Email: readingstyle@nrsi.com

National Validations
In 1998, 2002 and 2006, the Carbo Reading Styles Program submitted published, independent studies to the Northwest Regional Lab, which was funded by the U. S. Dept. of Education to evaluate language arts programs. We were selected for inclusion in the Catalog of School Reform Models. Read more.

About Our Seminar Leaders

Barbara Hinds
Educators love the fun, the inspiration, and
the multitude of powerful ideas Barbara provides. Barbara consistently receives rave reviews. As one teacher said, “Barbara could give a workshop on making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and we’d be flying out the door full of enthusiasm to be the best sandwich makers in the world!”

Kay Douglas
Kay’s deep love of teaching and children, powerfully positive energy, and depth of knowledge earned her the “Most Inspirational Teacher” Award at Western Illinois University. As one seminar attendee said, “Kay was just awesome, very motivational, energetic considerate and, above all, knowledgeable.”