January 19-21, and February 2-4, 2012
Thur/Friday from 4:30-7:45 and
Saturday 8:15-4:30
Hamlin Robinson School Learning Center,
1700 E Union St, Seattle, WA 98122

Program Overview

Grounded in research, Laura Rogan's ©Wired For Reading Introductory Course is organized and presented in four parts: Teacher Essentials; Linguistic Foundation; Core Phonics for ‘words that play fair’; and Word Study strategies for words that do not.

Optional: Three credits through Seattle University Professional Development program EPDLA 900 for $40 a credit or 30 Washington State clock hours. Credits earned may apply towards Washington State teacher certification and for advancement on the salary scale.

Training Cost

Tuition: $425
Deposit: $150 reserves place (Nonrefundable after deadline)
Material Fees: $85 (this fee is waived if tuition is received by registration deadline.)

Registration

To register for the ©Wired For Reading course, please print and fill out the Registration Form. Registration Deadline: January 16th, 2011.

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Detailed Course Information

Teacher Essentials:

• Explanations for the underlying processing problems that can create barriers to reading and spelling
• Defining ‘Response to Intervention’
• Exploring Baddeley’s model of the working memory
• Clarifying the context of English spelling patterns by providing a brief history of the English language.
• Explanations for W4R’s teaching pedagogy or philosophy, as well as the two ‘scope and sequence’ charts. 

Linguistic Foundations:

• Studying relationships between speech and sounds, sounds and letter patterns, and meaning patterns in words and how these impact phonic patterns. 
• Building a speech-motor approach to teaching phonological awareness, creating a deep, strong and powerful foundation for reading and spelling.
• Learning kid-friendly terms for Linguistic concepts including Place, Manner, and Voice.
• Creating a ‘Vowel Key’ to track the 18 vowel sounds of the English language using multi-sensory techniques.

Core Anglo Saxon:

• Exploring the core Anglo Saxon (Germanic) phonic patterns.  Rather than teaching rules to be memorized, you will learn phonic stories using art, music, drama, and laughter to make the patterns come alive. 
• Personifying patterns making them engaging, imaginative, and memorable.
• Using stories woven together around common themes that highlight the interconnected relationships of English Orthography and Morphology in a multi-modal, multi-sensory way. 
• Attaching letter patterns to the vowel key so that students have one source to manage multiple spelling choices in the English language.
• Focusing on single syllable ‘root’ words to prepare the way for the multi-syllable, root-plus-suffix work explored more intensely in the Part 2 workshop.

Word Study:

• Discussing how multiple word origins create an awkward spelling puzzle, but it also gives us a tremendous comprehension advantage.  English loves to adopt eloquent words from all over the world, and each new immigrant word carries along its own spelling tradition.  Hence English is rich with words (and spelling choices).
• Exploring how ‘Quick Words’ (sight words) are problematic.
• Delving into small grammar words used to glue more meaningful words together.  By themselves, these common, grammar words are not terribly meaningful, but they are terribly important. 
• Discovering how to imbue grammar words with as much meaning as possible to aid rapid recall (Wolf, 2008).
• Learning two research base strategies - color coding and mental imagery - that produce the best results when used together (Berninger, 2006).