Cohort MOE Years 0-3 and Years 4-8 Structured Literacy PLD Workshops

As a MOE accredited and approved facilitator, Marianne is excited to offer Cohort professional development to a variety of locations in Cohort 3, beginning in Term 1.
This PLD will consist of three face-face workshops with a further eight 1 hour online sessions

The 3 days will cover topics such as:

What is a Structured Literacy approach?
• Introduction and background to Structured Literacy, dispelling myths, and explaining the
Science of Learning behind Structured Literacy. We will also explore the elements of Structured
Literacy.
• Comparing a Balanced or Whole Language approach to a Structured approach
• The Ladder of Reading
• Cognitive load theory
Vocab of Structured Literacy
• The importance of phonemic awareness – how to assess and how to teach
• Orthographic Mapping

• How to use a scope and sequence – any scope and sequence
• Decodable books and the use of rich texts.
• Lesson plan – whole class, group and individual

Years 4-8 will cover Handwriting Instruction and Writing using a Structured Literacy
Approach face to face during the 3 days
Years 0-3 will cover Writing using a Structured Literacy Approach and Handwriting during
the online sessions.
Spelling patterns of the English language
• Building teacher knowledge and confidence
• Learn about the patterns of the English language
• This increased knowledge will provide a pathway to confidently teach it in a structured literacy
way – systematically, cumulatively, explicitly and diagnostically
• Increase teacher knowledge around literacy terms such as syllable type, digraph, schwa,
diphthong, affixes and the alphabetic principle
Reading Fluency, Morphology and Language Comprehension
• Fluency: what is it? how to teach it, how to assess it, and some practical ways to integrate it
into your classroom
• Language Comprehension: review of two guiding models – Simple View of Reading and
Scarborough’s Rope and explore the Language Comprehension strands (background
knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning and literary knowledge)
• Gain practical activities you can immediately use in your education setting that covers the
decoding and language comprehension sides of the rope
• Assessment and getting started