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Mark Weakland Literacy YouTube Channel
My business video channel for teachers (bit.ly/MWLitYouTube) is stocked with one and two minute literacy videos that clearly demonstrate teaching techniques, multi-sensory learning routines, phonemic awareness activities, and more. At the site you'll also find a sound-letter song, a kindergarten engagement activity, and an idea for an inexpensive "take-home bag" that a district can use to help primary grade children more easily learn during remote teaching times. I hope to have Kid Writing lessons and other activities up for kids (as an aid to teachers this fall), so check in now and again to see what's new. 
http://bit.ly/MWLitYouTube
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Sport Records: Football, Soccer, Hockey and more
​My latest books 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!

Many in America are working to overcoming two terrible scourges - the coronavirus, newly on the scene, and systemic racism, older than the founding of my country. As always, but especially in these challenging times, my thoughts are with teachers, parents, and children and my wish is that we work for the change we want to see and be as kind and helpful to one another as possible.

September   
   Grant Elementary, District 89, Chicago, IL           9/10
            Zoom dyslexia seminar: helping striving readers-writers

    Divine Mercy Elementary   Johnstown, PA         9/21 - 23
          Literacy training for primary grade teachers

October   
   Divine Mercy Elementary   Johnstown, PA      10/13-16
          Model lessons and classroom consulting

   Bureau of Education and Research                  10/26 -29
            Zoom dyslexia seminar: helping striving readers-writers
            East Coast, Central, Mountain, Pacific time zones

November
   Preventing Reading Difficulties                          11/15
            How to Prevent Reading Difficulties, PreK-3. 
            On-going work on the science and instructional practice
​            of teaching young children to read. 

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.