- Instructor: ies
Course Provider: Erin Kent Consulting (EKC)
| 239USD | Flexible | Flexible | Self-paced | Certificate available |
You know foundational skills matter tremendously for your young readers and writers. But sometimes you wonder, do some word study practices have more of an impact than others? What content is critical? And with an already packed schedule, how can you fit it all in and make sure it transfers into their reading and writing? Whether you’re teaching Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop or using a different approach this training will leave you with instructional takeaways to use tomorrow for K-2 grammar, vocabulary, phonics and spelling.
Course Agenda
● Session 1: Why Word Study?
● Session 2: Taking a Word-Curious Stance in Teaching and Learning
● Session 3: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
● Session 4: Teaching Phonics in Engaging Ways
● Session 5: What Matters Most in Word Study for Early Learners?
● Session 6: The Importance of Morphology
● Session 7: Inquiring into Morphology in the Early Years
● Session 8: Teaching Grammar Through Inquiry
● Session 9: Scheduling for Word Study
● Extra Resources: FAQs in International Schools
– How can we maximize transfer into reading and writing after our word investigations?
– How can we be efficient when differentiating Word Study?
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
● Identify the building blocks of a robust word study program in KG-G2
● Apply planning techniques for inquiry-rich instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, grammar, and vocabulary
Course Commitment
● Fully Asynchronous
● About 2.5 hours of video content to access for 6 months and a padlet of resources
Schedule
Flexible Schedule / Self-paced
Erin Kent Consulting (EKC) is a collaborative of literacy strategists specialized in working with international schools. We provide customized professional learning experiences for K-12 educators that fit a school’s unique context and hold tight to research-based essentials. We’ve worked with over 100 international schools on six continents to grow joyful, responsive literacy learning. Trainings are offered in English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. We offer a variety of online options for staff development: administrative consults on K-10 literacy reform or refinement, coach or lead teacher mentorship programs, live or recorded workshops on literacy topics, live Q&A sessions with grade level teams or an entire faculty, action research mentorship around a unique topic of interest for your school/country context, etc. Digital learning shrinks our already small world of international education. Reach out when you need us; you’ve got literacy experts ready to answer your questions on K-10 Readers Workshop, Writers Workshop and Word Study in international schools.
Director
Erin Kent
Erin Kent consults with international schools around the world. She helps teachers and administrators grow customized approaches to K-10 balanced literacy that fit an international school’s unique context. Erin taught literacy for many years in urban, independent, and international schools before becoming a literacy coach and then P-12 Director of Curriculum and Instruction where she led a team of 13 instructional coaches and advised K-12 administrators on establishing data-based educational initiatives. Erin has spoken many times at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City and at international conferences on Readers/ Writers Workshop methodology, literacy coaching, curriculum development, and literacy leadership.
Natashya Hays
Natashya Hays has spent much of her 22 years in education as a classroom teacher, putting children at the center of teaching, learning and decision making. Natashya has worked as a literacy intervention teacher, ELL support teacher, a PYP/Curriculum coordinator, and also a literacy coach. She has lead out on international conferences about Word Study, training teachers in how to make phonics, grammar, and spelling efficient and joyful. Natashya excels at helping teachers establish inquiry-rich Readers and Writers Workshops in schools around the world.
Vanessa Reid
It was truly astounding how positive the feedback was…, even from some of our most skeptical members of staff! Everyone gained a huge amount of knowledge and understanding… Not only were teachers upskilled, but there was also a sense of renewed motivation and energy for literacy teaching… It is nearly two years on, and we are still drawing on this energy! Administrators were equally impressed with the work and on a personal note, as Leader of Literacy, Erin’s coaching was some of the best PD I have ever had.
Patience Montgomery
Thank you for everything; such a wonderful and uplifting course! I truly enjoyed every minute. It was so well put together, informative, and helpful in all respects!
Olivia Montero Petraglia
These sessions have been some of the best professional learning I’ve had in my twenty-three years in education. (EKC) understands hardworking teachers, the constraints of international school schedules, and the necessity of differentiation, and the workshops keep all learners in mind. I know that after a course, I feel inspired and have ready-to-use tools and strategies to apply right away.
