We have been working in schools delivering Structured Literacy professional learning since 2021 and have supported over 2500 teachers across Aotearoa. We prepare teachers with the practical teaching skills to follow any scope and sequence. Providing user-friendly, quick to administer assessents, we supply you with all the resources you need to implement structured literacy into your classrooms.
Structured Literacy Workshops for Year 0- 3 teachers
COHORT 2 Applications are now OPEN.
Workshop registrations open on Friday the 13th, September.
Grow your knowledge and confidence and see all of your learners thrive by registering for our professional development series. With hands-on training and practical resources, we’ll have you ready and excited for 2025.
Eligible teachers = full-time or part-time teachers, Limited Authority to Teach (LAT), RTLB/RTLit, Reading Recovery teachers, regular relieving teachers, other specialist teachers attached to your school.
2024
Auckland 24 October, 25 October, 2 December
Christchurch 29, 30, 31 October
Dunedin 5, 6, 21 November
Blenheim 19, 20, 21 November
Online 26, 27 November + 2 December
+ 8 online (after school) webinars (2025)
Workshop Details
Register below for the Year 0-3 Structured Approaches to Literacy PD – 3 days of workshops + 8 60minute webinars
Workshop Day 1 – Introduction to Structured Literacy
This workshop will include:
- What is a Structured Literacy approach?
- The importance of Science of Reading (SOR) and Science of Learning (SOL)
- The importance of phonemic awareness
- How to use a scope and sequence
- What are decodable books?
- A Structured Literacy lesson plan – what a week looks like
- Assessment, data collection and analysis
- Orthographic Mapping.
- Response to Intervention – We will weave through how we get our fragile learners flying.
Workshop Day 2 – Spelling -Teaching the Patterns and Generalisations of the English Language in a Structured Literacy Way
At this workshop you will:
- gain knowledge about the patterns and generalisations of the New Zealand English language
- participate in structured literacy lessons where we teach you the spelling patterns and model explicit instruction
- be provided with the resources, practical learning experiences and knowledge to be able to teach these patterns in a structured literacy way
- practice and apply the knowledge gained and receive feedback
- receive resources to use immediately in the classroom
- have plenty of opportunity to ask questions about the patterns to the presenters
- have some fun!
Workshop Day 3 – Fluency, Language Comprehension, Vocabulary and Morphology
At this workshop we will build your understanding of teaching fluency and morphology. You will participate in practical exercises that can be used in your classroom.
We will explore and understand the importance of the Language Comprehension strands of Scarborough’s Rope.
- Fluency: what is it, how to teach it, how to assess it and some practical ways to integrate it into your classroom.
- Morphology: what is it, why teach it, key terminology and some practical exercises to teach morphology in Years 0-3.
- Language Comprehension: review of our two guiding models – Simple View of reading and Scarborough’s Rope and explore the Language Comprehension Strands (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning and literary knowledge).
- Gain practical activities you can immediately use in your education setting that cover the decoding and language comprehension side of the rope.
Webinars – Writing – 4 sessions – 3.15pm – 4.15pm (Please note these will be all online) + 4 Support sessions
Session 1 – Intro to writing and transcription skills
Session 2 – Building Blocks of sentences: word level.
Session 3 – Building Blocks of sentences: phrases,clauses, sentence types
Session 4 – Introduction to our Writing Resources and sentence level activities
Session 5-8
Support and guidance