We all want our students to be able to read. Many of us know how important it is for our students to learn to read, yet we continue to ask the questions, "How can I motivate my students to read?" "How do I teach the love of reading?" "What are the essentials that I must know in order for my students to be successful readers?" Join Breanne Glover and Paul Pantaleo to find out how to best teach your students by looking at them from the inside out and stop seeing them as a label or number. The presenters will discuss research-based fundamentals in teaching reading, the complexities behind reading development in children, the benefits of reading levels, how to use observation to assess as we teach, and the importance of goal setting. Participants will learn about an exemplary push-in or pull-out daily reading intervention model that will dramatically accelerate the progress of reading with students. You will walk away with practical and supportive handouts to support teaching in a manner that facilitates powerful strategic activity. (Repeated in 'B' session)

Breanne Glover (BEd, Post Degree Diploma in Special Education and MEd) is working as an Early Literacy Collaboration Teacher and Paul Pantaleo (BEd, MA, Post Master's Diploma) is a Learning Support Teacher, both working in the Greater Victoria School District. Breanne's passion for teaching children to read closely rivals her greatest life passion of being a mom to her two daughters. Paul has dedicated 40 years in the education field to making a difference for students learning to read and has a personal passion of travelling. The two presenters also work as part-time sessional instructors at the University of Victoria, co-teaching a course designed for teachers on the fundamentals of how to teach students to read. They have previously worked as Inclusive Learning Teachers, classroom teachers (elementary/middle), Reading Recovery Specialists, School administrators, Teacher Leaders and Teacher Mentors.