- Instructor: ies
Course Provider: Lifelong Literacy
| 215USD | Flexible | 8 Hours | Self-paced | Certificate available |
Uncover the simplicity and science of spelling with this research-informed, linguistically accurate guide to English orthography. Spelling for Life is a highly acclaimed, internationally recognised teaching and learning program and bestselling book written by educational linguist, Lyn Stone.
Participants will:
■ receive a reusable book of worksheets for direct classroom application
■ receive a downloadable manual
■ receive a deck of PowerPoint slides for classroom use
■ be able to participate in live forums with colleagues
■ receive a suggested spelling and handwriting scope and sequence from F-6
■ receive a certificate of completion for 8 hours of PD
Course content:
Section 1: Tools for Spelling
Broken Rules and Word Stories: Why irregular words only seem irregular
Orthographic mapping
The Spelling Formula
Section 2: The Single Letters
Spelling rules and conventions: Why we have such things in the first place
The Difference Between Vowels and Consonants
The Single Vowels
Illegal Letters
The Letter Y in all its glory
Section 3: Letter Combinations
Consonant Clusters: The truth about blends and blending
Word-Final E
R: Controller of vowels
Vowel Digraphs
Section 4: Syllables and Doubling
Syllabification: How to teach syllables with phonology and etymology in mind
Everything you ever wanted to know about schwa but were afraid to ask
To Double or Not to Double?
Section 5: Suffixes
Suffixes and their behaviour
The Return of Illegal I
The Suffix Generator
Plus many more delightful and fascinating spelling patterns
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.
Learning Outcomes
■ An educator who understands the structure of English spelling.
■ An educator who is confident in teaching this structure to others.
■ An educator equipped with structured, sequential tools and resources to deliver high quality spelling lessons in any classroom environment.
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.“
