The Palmetto Education Summit 2026

Educators, families, and community members must all work together to improve the literacy skills of our youth in South Carolina. Join us for this interactive session as members of the Academic Alliance of South Carolina share three evidence-based practices that teachers, tutors, mentors, and parents can use across all content areas and at any grade level to improve the literacy skills of students with dyslexia and those with persistent reading difficulties.  Participants will learn instructional strategies for reading aloud to youth at all grade and content levels to improve vocabulary, comprehension, and language skills regardless of the reading level,  gain insight into using repeated reading as a strategy to improve reading fluency and comprehension as one of the key critical components in the science of reading, and acquire the skills to implement a cognitive strategy called, Get the Gist, to enable youth to identify the main idea at the sentence, paragraph, or complete text level, which are key skills for summarizing information efficiently. Participants will receive practical tips for implementing these strategies, along with electronic resources to support their use.