Teaching Decoding and Spelling Skills
Speaker(s): Marcia K. Henry, Ph.D. |
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Logistics
Recommended book(s) or materials: Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction
Seminar length: 1-2 days (each day is approx. 6 hours long)
Number of participants: 10 to 50
Who will benefit from this seminar: General and special educators, educational therapists, school psychologists, literacy tutors, parents, speech pathologists, and others interested in reading acquisition Speaker Fees: (What do fees include?)
1 day: $2100
2 days: $3300
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Have another idea? Tell us about it, and we’ll do our best to customize this seminar to your needs! |
Seminar Description
Students of any age can become better readers by acquiring critical decoding and spelling skills. In this workshop, participants will discover an innovative, comprehensive curriculum — based on word origin and word structure — for teaching decoding and spelling to students from K–12. Participants will learn about
- the rationale for explicit decoding/spelling instruction
- the prerequisites for reading acquisition, including phonemic awareness
- the structure of English orthography
- Anglo-Saxon letter-sound correspondences, syllable patterns, and affixes,
- advanced language structures, including Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, and roots
To incorporate this knowledge into their reading instruction, participants will also learn practical, multisensory teaching strategies; easy-to-implement activities for individual, small-group, and inclusive classroom settings; and content area connections in literature and social studies. The two-day seminar includes more details and hands-on activities.
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| Bonus: Let us know who your participants will be, and Dr. Henry will emphasize the Anglo-Saxon layer of language for primary school teachers or the Latin and Greek layers for upper elementary and secondary school teachers! |
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