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Secondary Workshops

Come away with many practical ways to enhance your teaching of literacy in the secondary classroom.

This two day workshop is for Secondary educators who would like to know more about the Science of Reading, Science of Learning and Structured Literacy and how to practically apply them to the teaching of literacy within a secondary context. Come away with many practical ways to enhance your teaching of literacy in the secondary classroom. This workshop is suitable for all Secondary educators.  

Day 1

Module 1: Science of Reading: Scarborough’s Reading Rope, The Simple View of Reading, how the brain learns to read, Response to Intervention model, disciplinary literacy

Module 2: Science of Learning: explicit instruction: engagement norms & TAPPLE, cognitive load theory, spaced, interleaved, retrieval practice

Module 3: Word Recognition: Decoding, Phonemic Awareness, Letter/Sound Relationship, Orthographic Mapping


Day 2

Module 4: Language comprehension, building background knowledge, explicitly teaching vocabulary/morphology and inferencing

Module 5: Writing Part 1 – Syntax level activities: oral and written practice

Module 6: Writing Part 2 – Paragraph and multiple paragraph structures

Module 7: Fluency: what is it, why is it important and how we can incorporate it in our lessons

Module 8: Next Steps – where to from here?


Check our events page for upcoming Secondary workshops or complete the inquiry form below:

Term 1

Event Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Where
Two day Secondary Structured Literacy Workshop 18 Mar, 2025 19 Mar, 2025 Christchurch More Info
Secondary Webinars, Term 1 – online 20 Feb, 2025 27 Feb, 2025 Online More Info
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