Wilson® Introductory Course

Wed., June 4, 2025 - Fri., June 6, 2025

8:30 am - 3:30 pm Daily

Lunch on your own

at Churchill Center & School

$725 per registrant

This course provides participants with an overview of the Wilson Reading System® (WRS) 4th Edition curriculum and serves as the prerequisite for WRS Level I Certification. Over three consecutive days (16.5 hours), this course examines how WRS addresses the teaching of phonemic awareness, word identification, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension through an integrated study of phonology, morphology, and orthography with students in grade two and above with persistent phonological coding deficits. Participants learn about reading research, dyslexia, appropriate student identification and placement, program implementation, progress monitoring, scheduling, and creating a successful learning environment. Principles of language structure and how to teach language with direct, multisensory methods are demonstrated and practiced during the course. Participants explore the standard 10-part Wilson Lesson Plan and practice planning and delivering a lesson while receiving modeling and feedback from a Wilson® Credentialed Trainer during the course.

Everyone Deserves To Learn To Read

Wilson Reading System® (WRS) is the flagship program of Wilson Language Training® and the foundation of all other Wilson® programs. The Tier 3 Structured Literacy (SL) program is based on phonological coding research and Orton-Gillingham principles.

Course Objectives

Upon the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define dyslexia and describe common characteristics.
• Explain the process of identifying appropriate students and placing them in the Wilson Reading System.
• Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative, engaging multiple learning modalities with multisensory techniques, repetition, and feedback.
• Create an optimal learning environment, prepare a lesson plan, and practice techniques.
• Understand the key components of instruction and presentation of lessons in three blocks:

BLOCK 1: Word Study/Foundational Reading Skills: Lesson Plan Parts 1-5

• Phonemic Awareness, Decoding, Vocabulary, High-Frequency Word Reading, Single-Word Accuracy/Automaticity, Phrasing/Prosody, Fluency, and Comprehension at the Sentence Level

BLOCK 2: Spelling/Foundational Writing Skills: Lesson Plan Parts 6-8

• Phoneme Segmentation, Encoding (Spelling), English Spelling Rules, High-Frequency Word Spelling, Vocabulary, Concept Mark Up, Sentence-Level Punctuation and Proofreading

BLOCK 3: Fluency/Comprehension: Lesson Plan Parts 9-10

• Vocabulary, Listening/Silent and Oral Reading Fluency and Comprehension, Narrative and Informational Tex

Please note the following:

1. Participants may enroll in the WRS Level I Certification Training or the online course WRS Intensive Instruction for the Non-Responsive Reader (Steps 1-6) within five years of completing a WRS Introductory Course.
2. Materials are not included. All materials can be purchased directly from Wilson Language Training®