TRAINING COURSES for PRIMARY

1-what is phonics?

4 hour Webinar or Face-to-Face

The course consists of synchronous and asynchronous sessions. The asynchronous modules will provide reading material, trainer's notes, video tutorials, and links to Phonics websites and resources.

For All teachers, heads, coordinators, educational therapists involved in the reading and writing process in the early years of primary school

Objectives:

Understand and learn about the process of the acquisition of reading and writing, how we learn to read and write, how the brain learns. Learn about Systematic Synthetic Phonics and how to apply it in the classroom. How to develop reading comprehension.

Content: 

Literacy and its process: How the brain works in the reading process. 

The simple view of reading and writing.

The Bilingual brain: English and Spanish alphabetic codes, similarities and differences. 

The 2 processes of Literacy: Development of Oral language, comprehension, composition and Word recognition: Systematic Synthetic Phonics, spelling, handwriting.

Developing Oral Language through stories, poems and rhymes, description, sequencing and retelling.

The Phonics skills: Letter sound correspondences, Blending, Segmenting and handwriting. Teaching and Learning cycle. Phonics programmes.

2-developing phonics, spelling, reading and writing

6  hour Webinar or Face-to-Face of 3 hour per session

The course consists of synchronous and asynchronous sessions. The asynchronous modules will provide reading material, trainer's notes, video tutorials, and links to Phonics websites and resources.

For all Primary 1 teachers, Heads and Coordinators, teaching assistants, special educational needs. 

Objectives

Learn about the progression in Phonics and what comes after the 42 sounds
Exploring the English Alphabetic code. 

Learn about the teaching of the alternative spellings

Learn about the implementation of a reading scheme and developing understanding at literal, inferential and evaluative level.  

Content

Session 1: 3 hours

The English Alphabetic code, how it works for spelling. How to teach it. 

The progression in Phonics after the 42 sounds
Teaching the alternative spellings and its sequence
The Phonics and Spelling class
Spelling stories and the Literacy and Phonics worksheets.
Building up the Spelling word bank

Session 2: 3 hours

Developing Reading: from shared and guided to independent reading.

Building up a decodable reading scheme: Decodable readers and texts for the classroom.

The Simple View of Reading model: Building up reading groups to gain fluency.

Developing reading comprehension at literal, inferential and evaluative level.

3-assessing phonics

3 Hour Webinar or Face-to-Face

The course consists of synchronous and asynchronous sessions. The asynchronous modules will provide reading material, trainer's notes, video tutorials, and links to Phonics websites and resources.

For First and Second form Primary school teachers, heads, coordinators and educational therapists involved in the reading and writing process

Objectives

Discuss, explore and learn about the evaluation process. What to evaluate and how.

Differentiation  in the classroom: Discuss, explore and learn about assessment. 

What to assess and how. 

Learn about the differentiation in the classroom identifying each child's process and progress. 

Differentiation in the classroom: 

What is assessment? What are we going to assess? 

What is differentiation in the classroom?

Learning objectives versus success criteria. How are we going to assess?

The Simple View of Reading and Writing as a platform for assessment. 

Assessment rubrics. 

What is assessment? What are we going to evaluate? 

Learning objectives versus success criteria. 

How are we going to assess? 

Assessment and evaluation tools. 

Phonics Screening checks.  Activities for evaluation.