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Date for Victorian Literacy Workshops
 Teaching Spelling Explicitly
Many teachers are looking for a way to develop a comprehensive spelling program. This workshop has a three-pronged approach to teaching spelling.
· Participants will learn how to explicitly teach spelling strategies with particular emphasis on spelling words by the way they look, the way they sound and by their meaning. Often students rely on one of these strategies rather than combining all three.
· Participants will learn how to develop word lists with students to enable them to transfer spelling knowledge to all writing. Often students place words in the short -term memory to get words right in the Friday test and then forget how to spell the words on Monday.
· Participants will learn how to develop word study in a manner that takes words from context and trains students to develop spelling generalisations rather than spelling rules that don’t always work.
DATE: Monday, August 9th, 2010
TIME: 4.30-6.30
VENUE: Frankston Library, 60 Playne St, Frankston, Melbourne [Paid parking available in underground car park]
COST: $77.00 including GST afternoon tea included
Reading Comprehension
Many of our students are good at ‘saying the words’ but they don’t understand what they read. This workshop outlines a variety of comprehension strategies and demonstrates for teachers how to name the strategies and then teach them through shared reading, read aloud, guided reading and small group activities.
Teachers find this workshop fun and leave the workshop with a bagful of comprehension lessons they can teach the next day without having to use any comprehension sheets.
The workshop demonstrates strategies such as questioning, making connections, visualising, summarising and many more.
DATE: Tuesday, 10th August 2010
TIME: 9.00 – 3.00
VENUE: Frankston Library, 60 Playne St, Frankston, Melbourne [Paid parking available in underground carpark]
COST: $145 including GST
LUNCH: Morning tea is included and lunch can be purchased nearby
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