Enrollment for spring Reading First academies (in Charlottesville, Newport News, and Roanoke) closes on February 8th. There are still spaces available. If you wish to enroll, please create an account for yourself on this website, if you do not already have one, and complete enrollment. Click here for more Spring Reading First Academies information.

Our website will require site REGISTRATION for anyone wishing to ENROLL for a Reading First event. Please select “registration” on the above menu to create a new account if you are sure you don’t already have one! (If you are an RF school, please check with your Coach. You may already have an account!) Once you have created an account, you will be able to see events as they are added and enroll in them online as soon as the enrollment period opens!

You may enroll in any summer academy using this site except for the Virginia Commonwealth University academies. Please register for these at http://www.soe.vcu.edu/tra.htm

Many of our registered users still need to verify their email address via the online procedure. If you need help, information about email verification can be found on your My Account page, the Email Verification menu item, and in the FAQs.

Email is our primary means of communicating news and events to you. Email verification is required in order to enroll in events so it is very important that you complete this process. Please LOG IN and VERIFY your email as soon as possible!

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Clarification on Required Assessments

The Virginia Reading First approved application to the U.S. Department of Education requires four types of assessment: screening, progress monitoring, diagnostic and outcome. Each year of the grant the reading skills of all students must be assessed with screening, progress monitoring, and outcome measures. Diagnostic assessment is only administered to students whose screening scores or progress monitoring scores indicate the need for further assessment.

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The Hampton Roads spring session Grades 1 and 2 academies are now registering. Academy sessions will be held on these dates: Feb 11, March 11, April 29, May 20, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the UVa Hampton Roads Center in Virginia Beach. Attendance is limited to 25 people in each academy (Grades 1 and 2).
Please use this form (Click here to download the PDF document) and FAX to 434-924-6339. If you have any questions, please contact Donna Rose in the Reading First office.

Registration for teachers who are not in Reading First schools (K-3 and Title I teachers and their administrators, and K-3 special educators) will open on April 25th. On that date, the “REGISTRATION” link on the top menu of our website will connect teachers to our registration site.

When you come to the registration site, you will be asked to fill out an on-line survey and then select your Teacher Reading Academy. To make the registration process more efficient, we recommend that you make your academy date and site selection with a back up choice in case of unavailability before coming to the registration site. We also suggest that you allow yourself fifteen to twenty minutes to register and that you print out the confirmation page upon completion of your registration.

We look forward to working with all of you this summer.

All Teacher Reading Academies for this summer are full. Unfortunately, this means that people on waiting lists will not be able to attend an academy this summer. All academies will be offered again next year. Thank you for your patience through the registration process.

Please bring a one volume of the Teacher’s Edition of the basal that you are
currently (or will be) using in your classroom/school. All other materials
will be provided.

Thank you.

The RF Office

Please note: The deadline for making changes to your academy registration is June 4th. In order to most effectively group participants for small-group sessions at the academies, we require all changes to registration by this date.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The Reading First Office