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Course Provider: Lifelong Literacy
| 215USD | Flexible | 8 Hours | Self-paced | Certificate available |
High quality literacy instruction for all. This workshop bridges the gap between research and practice to translate academic findings into practical suggestions and ready-to-use techniques. It is useful to teachers and school teams who are on their science of reading journey.
Hosted by Lyn Stone, Reading for Life is designed to be accessible, understandable and practical. It is filled with take-home messages of positivity and usefulness, and reveals a wealth of resources to suit all levels of inquiry into this topic.
Being here on this course means you’re keen to learn more about the process of reading and what can go right and wrong on the journey to literacy.
You will have three months from your first login to complete the course, after which time you will receive a certificate of completion.
COURSE STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
There are ten sections in this course, with an additional “Where to next?” section at the end.
Each of the ten sections has the following structure:
■ video explainer (with duration in brackets, so you can pace yourself)
■ pdf containing core principles within the section
■ a quiz to revise and test your knowledge
■ a forum to share ideas, write queries, post feedback and chat to our online community of practice
■ optional resources for further reading (these are continually updated and added to and we happily take suggestions!)
Together we will:
■ Look at the definition of literacy
■ Discover the story of the Reading Wars
■ See what it really means to be dyslexic
■ Experience examples of processing speed and working memory
■ Explore some practical tools to boost reading and writing
COMPLETION CRITERIA
The most significant completion criterion is your own perception that you’ve got the most out of it. We do ask, though, that you participate in two out of the five forums along the way. Of course, as course admins, we can see whether or not you’ve opened the pdfs and watched the videos too, so we wouldn’t be that enthusiastic about certifying anyone who hasn’t glanced at the material. We just hope that you do much more than glancing.
We’ve tried to give you as much information as possible, including videos, pdfs, worksheets, quizzes and best of all, forums in which you can collaborate with your colleagues and me to get the very best out of the material.
Participants will:
■ receive a reusable book of worksheets for direct classroom application
■ receive a downloadable manual
■ be able to participate in live forums with colleagues
■ receive a certificate of completion for 8 hours of PD
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will:
■ be able to define the Big Six of reading,
■ understand the underlying processes of reading, such as working memory, processing speed, and orthographic mapping and what they can and can’t change in students,
■ have a clear understanding of interventions that work for students and interventions that do not,
■ have a working definition of dyslexia and the ability to dispel myths about the condition
■ have a framework for teaching reading that aligns with current research on the process of literacy acquisition
Course Commitment
8 hours to be done asynchronously over a maximum of three months. No extra work to submit.
Schedule
Flexible Schedule / Self-paced
Lifelong Literacy is a high-quality, low-variance literacy consultancy. Our mission is to help bridge gaps in education in the following ways:
■ by building bridges from research to practice with research-informed publications, resources and presentations,
■ by fostering improvement in teacher knowledge, with training and mentoring on a individual, whole school, and school cluster basis,
■ by helping students catch up and excel in learning and academic achievement by providing custom-made, specialized online and face to face tutoring.
Founder
Lyn Stone
Lifelong Literacy’s founder, Lyn Stone, is a Scottish educational linguist and author. She lives and works in Victoria, Australia where she runs her consultancy and tutoring practice.
Lyn creates research-informed professional development seminars and resources for teachers and other education professionals. She is a sought-after public speaker and regularly makes appearances at worldwide conferences and on live radio.
Her goal is to help educators awaken linguistic curiosity in their students using creative, engaging tools and strategies that are based upon scientific consensus as to what constitutes best practice.
Lyn has been trained in numerous major literacy acquisition programs and pedagogical approaches (Lindamood LiPS, Spalding, Read Write Inc., Sounds Write, Explicit Direct Instruction, Auslan and Makaton, to name but a few), and it is due to her breadth and depth of knowledge on what works and doesn’t work in teaching that she is highly qualified to assist schools to make decisions on what to accept, and equally importantly, on what to reject when selecting resources.
Lyn has extensive classroom-teaching experience and is regularly employed by schools on a contractual basis to provide specialist literacy education for groups of at-risk students as well as training for teachers.
Her three bestselling books, Spelling for Life, Language for Life and Reading for Life have attracted international acclaim.
Lyn Stone
Lifelong Literacy’s founder, Lyn Stone, is a Scottish educational linguist and author. She lives and works in Victoria, Australia where she runs her consultancy and tutoring practice.
Lyn creates research-informed professional development seminars and resources for teachers and other education professionals. She is a sought-after public speaker and regularly makes appearances at worldwide conferences and on live radio.
Her goal is to help educators awaken linguistic curiosity in their students using creative, engaging tools and strategies that are based upon scientific consensus as to what constitutes best practice.
Lyn has been trained in numerous major literacy acquisition programs and pedagogical approaches (Lindamood LiPS, Spalding, Read Write Inc., Sounds Write, Explicit Direct Instruction, Auslan and Makaton, to name but a few), and it is due to her breadth and depth of knowledge on what works and doesn’t work in teaching that she is highly qualified to assist schools to make decisions on what to accept, and equally importantly, on what to reject when selecting resources.
Lyn has extensive classroom-teaching experience and is regularly employed by schools on a contractual basis to provide specialist literacy education for groups of at-risk students as well as training for teachers.
Her three bestselling books, Spelling for Life, Language for Life and Reading for Life have attracted international acclaim.
Jane Lobsey, PYP Coordinator and Joe Schaaf, N-12 Curriculum and Continuum Coordinator
International School of Tianjin
“When embarking upon a curriculum review of reading instruction at our school, we discovered Lyn Stone’s book, Reading for Life, which was read by our review team. This text was critical in supporting our understanding of the science of reading, affirming our understanding of the best, most evidence-based practices in reading instruction. As we continued our journey and began to reflect on and modify our practices, we were fortunate enough to connect with Lyn, who was able to answer our questions about everything from phonics programs to morphology and from teacher accents to schwa! Lyn has provided a model of support which has included consultancy with the leadership team, leading professional learning sessions which catered for teachers from Nursery to Grade 12, and observing and providing feedback on explicit phonics lessons with teams of teachers. Some of our staff members have also engaged in her online courses, which were extremely valuable. When teachers were asked what they needed to support reading instruction, one staff member commented, “More Lyn Stone!” Lyn’s friendly and witty demeanor captivates staff during professional learning, however her true value is in her depth of knowledge in all areas of literacy and language.“
