Showing posts with label Literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literacy. Show all posts

3 September 2019

TBCS - Sally Clendon Course - Judy-Anne



Well I obviously need to come back to this one! Took lots of notes on the handouts!




  • Undertaking PLD and further professional reading.

28 August 2019

TBCS - Teaching Beginning Readers - Judy-Anne




Finding the pathway of success


Main takeaways:
Struggling readers overly rely on meaning and sentence structure as compensation for poorer decoding skill.

Teachers need to be equipped with the knowledge and teaching methods that consider what happens in the brain as children learn to read.

..when teachers have the knowledge and resources for twaching the code explicitly and systematically, children's reading outcomes improve.

Next steps:

Upskill phonics knowledge


  • Undertaking PLD and further professional reading.