Structured Literacy Basics: On-Demand Courses are Live!
Short, practical professional learning designed for busy educators.
Halifax Learning’s on-demand micro-courses combine structured literacy research with classroom-ready routines teachers can use right away.
Grounded in the science of reading and built from over 25 years of classroom and intervention experience, these courses help educators strengthen phonological awareness, decoding, and literacy instruction with strategies that work in real classrooms.
Structured Literacy Professional Learning That Fits Real Teaching Schedules.
Explore our courses today:
Fluency, Comprehension, and Using the Rubrics
On-demand course (120–200 minutes)
1-month access
$299 per teacher
This course supports educators in strengthening reading fluency and comprehension through thoughtful text selection and clear progress-monitoring tools. Teachers learn how to choose texts that align with students’ decoding skills while still supporting meaning-making.
The course also introduces practical classroom routines and rubrics to observe, assess, and respond to student reading behaviors. Grounded in structured literacy principles, it helps educators make confident, informed instructional decisions.
Classroom Setup: Maximizing Learning, Minimizing Distractions
On-demand course (45–60 minutes)
1-month access
$99 per teacher
This course shares practical, research-informed strategies for organizing classroom environments that reduce distraction, support focus, and maximize instructional time. The approaches are especially effective for students who struggle with attention, regulation, or literacy.
Participants explore how classroom layout, materials, and routines can strengthen literacy instruction and student engagement. With an emphasis on small, realistic adjustments, this course helps teachers create learning spaces where students can focus, participate, and learn more effectively.
Commonly Confused Sounds
On-demand course (90-120 minutes)
1-month access
$199 per teacher
This course gives educators practical strategies for addressing common sound confusions that impact reading and spelling. It’s ideal for any phonological awareness or phonics-based instruction, especially when students struggle to hear and distinguish similar sounds.
Through video demonstrations and ready-to-use classroom resources, teachers learn how to explicitly teach and remediate tricky consonant and vowel contrasts. Participants leave with clear, actionable tools to strengthen phonological awareness, decoding accuracy, and reading confidence.
Building & Monitoring Phonological Automaticity
On-demand course (60–90 minutes)
1-month access
$199 per teacher
This micro-course focuses on phonological automaticity, a key driver of reading fluency and comprehension. When sound–symbol knowledge becomes automatic, students read more smoothly and focus on meaning.
Educators learn efficient strategies to build automaticity, along with simple phoneme- and syllable-level checks and speed reading tools to monitor progress and guide instruction. Designed for real classrooms, this course supports teachers working with developing and struggling readers.
Small Groups, Big Impact: Using Data to Guide Instruction
On-demand course (60–120 minutes)
1-month access
$199 per teacher
This course gives teachers practical strategies for organizing classrooms and small-group routines that support struggling readers and diverse learners. Learn how structured routines, purposeful grouping, multisensory techniques, and targeted scaffolding can create learning environments that build independence and strengthen literacy outcomes.
