

Wed, Feb 11
|Webinar
How to Teach a Child to Read - 5 Things Every Educator Should Know
LitLife Presents: This webinar helps educators align literacy instruction with research-backed best practices. Experts Vincent Ventura and Shannon Hickey cover the five pillars of literacy, effective reading strategies, and classroom techniques to boost comprehension and word recognition.
Time & Location
Feb 11, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Webinar
About the Event
You know you teach English. It’s part of your school identity. You probably assess and plan for reading, writing, speaking, listening and maybe even grammar, too. But are you aligned with what decades of evidence has shown to maximize student literacy achievement? Are the five pillars of literacy firmly situated in each classroom in your school? In this fast-paced and informative webinar, participants will learn the essentials every educator should know to be able to teach a child to read. Literacy experts and instructional consultants, Vincent Ventura and Shannon Hickey will define the components of effective instruction for both word-level reading and text-level comprehension. They apply their decades of experience in international schools and multilingual populations to share examples of classroom strategies that support automatic word reading and deep comprehension. Walk away with the right questions that will help you answer your school’s literacy achievement questions. You’ll know how the…
