This workshop-style class based on Structured Literacy and the Science of Reading will guide teachers through the research and the concepts that underlie and govern the English spelling system, answering the question, “Why is this word spelled that way?” Participants will be provided with tools to explicitly and thoughtfully teach all components of reading and spelling of individual words for beginning, emergent and remedial readers: letter/sound correspondences: phonemic awareness, spelling patterns and syllable types, prefixes, suffixes and roots, and word origins. Teachers will also learn how to assess their students’ skills in each of these key areas and develop strategies to teach students self-correction and self-monitoring skills. Throughout, we will emphasize questions and activities to actively and confidently teach students to grasp the logic and elegance of how to spell and read words thoughtfully.
- Teacher: Sasha Borenstein