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Reading & Writing Online Courses for Educators

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Angela Ehmer - Getting your instructional approaches right is the key to lifetime literacy success for your students.

In 2011 Literacy Solutions will launch a series of online courses designed to take your teaching of literacy to new levels. These interactive courses will focus on key areas of professional development that will significantly improve student outcomes.

If you've always dreamed of mastering super-effective teaching strategies for reading, writing and spelling, but weren't quite sure how to put it all together… then these online courses will be the most exciting resource available on the web. So no matter how remote your location, as long as you can access the web, you'll have access to the latest and best professional development available for teachers of literacy.

Just to make the prospect even more enticing we're keeping the cost low to encourage all educators to trial our first venture into online delivery.

If you'd like to hear more about these courses over the coming months, just sign on to our client mail list below and we'll keep you informed as the first course approaches in 2011.

Our first course will focus on Guided Reading, a very popular but often misunderstood teaching approach. This course will cover:

• What is Guided Reading?
• Zones of proximal development
• Aims and objectives
• Grouping students
• Selecting texts
• Book orientation
• Challenges and supports
• Independent reading and solving
• Ongoing monitoring; gathering data
• Deeper conversations; questioning
• Teaching points/returning to the text
• Reflection
• Summary

Other topics planned for online delivery include:

• Building reading stamina
• A balanced reading program
• (Independent) practice reading
• Modelled, Reading aloud, Shared reading
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Word Solving
• Comprehension
• Literature Circles/Book Clubs