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NIFDI Implementation Managers Tamara Bressi and Randi Saulter lead these informative sessions featuring best practices that have been developed and refined in schools across the country. 

Participants will gain:

  • Delivery techniques for real-time, remote instruction of small groups
  • Strategies for checking mastery
  • Helpful techniques for keeping students engaged
  • Information on format and response alterations to accommodate distance learning
  • Considerations for telephone, pre-recorded, and other forms of instruction

Decoding A format types to be addressed

Word-attack skills:
  • Sound identification
  • Pronunciation – phonemic awareness
  • Say the sounds
  • Word reading      
Workbook exercises:
  • Sound dictation
  • Word reading
  • Word completion
  • Sentence & story reading

Individual reading checkouts
Mastery Tests

Purchase the pre-recorded Decoding A webinar here.


Decoding Level B1 & B2 format types to be addressed

Word-attack skills:
  • Word reading
Group reading:
  • Story-reading procedures
  • Oral comprehension questions
Workbook exercises:
  • Comprehension workbook exercises
  • Word-attack workbook exercises

Oral fluency checkouts
Mastery Tests 

Decoding Level C format types to be addressed

Word-attack skills:
  • Sound combinations
  • Buildups
  • Multipart words
  • Affixes
  • Vocabulary
Selection-reading:
  • Selection-reading procedures
  • Oral comprehension questions
Fluency assessment:
  • Checkout procedures
  • Fifth-lesson reading checkouts

 Purchase the pre-recorded Decoding B1, B2 and C webinar here.

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Implementing Direct Instruction Successfully

When implemented fully, Direct Instruction (DI) is unparalleled in its ability to improve student performance and enhance students’ self-esteem. In order to implement DI effectively, much more is required than simply purchasing instructional materials. The following two-part tutorial guides administrators, teachers, and coaches through the key features of a successful DI implementation. Part I provides an overview of the steps schools need to take in preparation for a DI implementation before school starts, while Part II provides an overview of the steps schools need to take after school has started.

IMPORTANT: This tutorial is an intensive video series comprised of 18 segments, each followed by a series of questions. Users should allow approximately three hours to watch the videos and complete the questions. NIFDI recognizes the high demand for time placed on school officials and, for this reason, has structured the tutorial so users may stop at any time and later resume where they left off.

Enroll in the tutorial here


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New to Direct Instruction? Watch the Introduction to Direct Instruction Video Series before taking the online tutorial.

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