Join us on Saturday, March 6th at 10:00 AM PST for a live webinar event: The Science of Word Learning with Dr. David Kilpatrick. The 90-minute presentation by Dr. Kilpatrick will be followed by a brief question and answer session.

Dr. Kilpatrick’s presentation will focus on how children learn to read words and why some children struggle. Understanding the nature of word-level reading development and word-level reading problems guides both effective assessment and intervention. This session explains how children build their sight word vocabulary via orthographic mapping and will discuss specific instructional techniques to help all children become skilled readers.

David A. Kilpatrick, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology for the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is a New York State certified school psychologist with 28 years of experience in schools. He has been teaching courses in learning disabilities and educational psychology since 1994. David is a reading researcher and the author of two books on reading, Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, and Equipped for Reading Success, and is a co-editor of a third, Reading Development and Difficulties: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice.

The registration fee includes access to the webinar recording through September 30, 2021.

Once registered, you will receive the webinar link and instructions via email. Washington state clock hours are not available for this event. Following the webinar, certificates of attendance will be provided by Read Washington upon request.

Thank you to our generous sponsor, Step By Step Learning for their support.

Read Washington is a registered 501c3 nonprofit.