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PD WEBINAR

# Using High-Quality Decodable Texts to Strengthen Both Sides of Scarborough's Reading Rope

Presented by: **Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., Educational Consultant**

Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET

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## About

Decodable texts play a critical role in helping beginning readers apply their developing phonics skills, but their value extends far beyond word reading. Join renowned literacy expert Dr. Wiley Blevins as he explores how high-quality decodable texts can serve as an essential instructional tool for strengthening both strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope: word recognition and language comprehension.

In this engaging webinar, Dr. Blevins will examine the characteristics of effective decodable texts and demonstrate how educators can use them intentionally to support phonics application, fluency development, vocabulary growth, oral language, and comprehension. Participants will learn practical strategies for maximizing instructional impact before, during, and after reading so students build the foundational skills necessary for skilled, confident reading.

Join Dr. Wiley Blevins to discover how thoughtfully designed decodable texts can become a powerful bridge between foundational skills and meaningful reading comprehension.

Duration: 45 Minutes

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Presented by Wiley Blevins**, Ed.D., Educational Consultant**

Author, editor, educator, and early literacy expert Wiley Blevins, Ed. D., currently serves as an educational consultant for Benchmark Education Company. He is also Associate Publisher of Reycraft Books, with a focus on publishing titles by authors and illustrators from underrepresented communities. 

As a Benchmark Education consultant, Wiley has played a major role in the development of several of the company’s acclaimed phonics programs, including the CODiE 2025 “Best Science of Reading Solution” award finalist, Benchmark Phonics and Word Study along with Benchmark Phonics Intervention and Benchmark Workshop, as well as the new solution, StartUp , BuildUp , SpiralUp Phonics. He was a program consultant on Benchmark Advance © 2022, which received “all green” evaluation ratings from EdReports in all three Gateways for Grades K-5. Wiley also helped develop Benchmark Education’s current decodable readers programs: BEC Decodables, Decodable Fluency Builders, and the latest addition to the line, DynaMax. He has shared extensively his insights on what decodable readers need to be effective for teachers, including in his white paper, “Types of Words Used in Effective Phonics Readers.” As an expert instructor for Benchmark Education’s multimedia professional learning network, Benchmark Academy, Wiley has created engaging courses for educators, rooted in phonics foundations. 

Wiley’s books include the PD Essentials title, Meaningful Phonics and Word Study: Lesson Fix Ups for Impactful Teaching, written to help educators teach phonics and address common weaknesses in their curriculum and materials.

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