Learning Opportunities

All students benefit from regular and supported opportunities to work with words in structured and engaging ways. Students who are emerging in their understandings of literacy are learning to understand the functions of print and print conventions. Developing phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and important receptive and expressive language skills will eventually allow students to use reading and writing to interact with others.

Students who have these skills and know most of the letters of the alphabet most of the time may be ready to discover how words work. These students would benefit from word identification and decoding through word work.

This interactive half-day workshop will introduce research-based practices, strategies, and activities for building phonological awareness and knowledge of the alphabetic principle as well as explore word identification and decoding through word work.

Target Audience

Teachers, Instructional/Learning Coaches, Teacher Assistants, Inclusive Learning Teachers, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists