Funded Structured Literacy PLD

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 – backfilling scope and sequence
• What are decodable books? Decodable books for older struggling readers
• 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.

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!

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
• 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.

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