What's New

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Prevent Reading Difficulties With Strong Tier I Instruction
I'm very excited about my latest teacher resource book, my first with Corwin Literacy. The book, which drops March 30, first shows how the brain learns to read and then quickly segues into  Tier 1 instructional practices that help prevent reading difficulties in many children, preK to grade 3. Included are dozens of effective and practice activities, strategies, and routines in the areas of language comprehension, phonology, orthography, and the extended reading of all types of text. Hope you will visit the place where the science of reading meets the art of teaching readers!
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Sport Records: Football, Soccer, Hockey and more
​My latest books for children are out and boy do they look great! Published by Black Rabbit Books, the six-book series is part of the BOLT imprint, which offers a unique hi/lo informational books for struggling and reluctant readers. To be honest, I don’t follow sports closely, but researching the achievements of the featured athletes left me inspired. With skill, practice, and unrelenting determination, humans can achieve great things! blackrabbitbooks.com/bolt.php

Upcoming Events
Coaching, presentations, trainings, author visits and more!

My wish for challenging times: we work for the change we want to see, we are as kind and helpful to one another as possible.
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OCTOBER   
   Literacy for All conference          Virtual                              10/16
            My one-hour virtual session - Creating a Co-taught Tier I  
            Reading Program-  will be available 10/16 to year's end

   Divine Mercy Catholic Academy     Johnstown, PA     10/19-21
            Beginning teachers literacy trainings;  in-classroom
            modeling of literacy structures & routines that enable      
            small group instruction

   BER day-long dyslexia seminar             Providence, RI     10/25
            Helping students who have or may have dyslexia
                                                                        Boston, MA         10/26
                                                                        Long Is, NY          10/27
                                                                        N. Virginia            10/28
​NOVEMBER   
   BER day-long dyslexia seminar             St, Louis  MO       11/08
            Helping students who have or may have dyslexia
                                                                       Witchita, KS         11/09
                                                                        Kansas City         11/10

   Appalachian IU8                          Virtual / Altoona PA         11/15
            Book discussion: How to Prevent Reading Difficulties

   Divine Mercy Catholic Academy     Johnstown, PA     11/16-17
            In-classroom modeling of literacy structures & routines
           that enable small group instruction

   BER day-long dyslexia seminar                  Virtual              11/18
            Helping students who have or may have dyslexia

DECEMBER   
   BER dyslexia conference                     Boston  MA   11/30-12/1
            With Marcia Geller and Heather Kenny
                                                                     Chicago, IL           12/2- 3
Mark Weakland is an author, teacher, national presenter and speaker, and literacy coach and consultant. Keeping his feet firmly in the classroom by regularly teaching in schools, Mark works with teachers, administrators, and parents to make literacy programs and instruction more engaging and successful.  He also loves to explore and make connections between the the arts, nature, science, and education.