Sessions for Teachers 2010
Workshops with David Hornsby and Debbie Sukarna
at Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre (Cnr Bell St & St George's Rd, Preston)
For more information, contact Paula Welham:
- Mobile: 0402 421 864
- email: pwelham@bigpond.net.au
 Thur 28 Jan |
Comprehension: developing thoughtful literacy P-8 | David |
| Fri 29 Jan |
Spelling P-8 | David |
| Sat 13 Feb |
Writer's Workshop P-6: an introduction | Debbie |
| Sat 20 Feb |
Planning an integrated unit P-6 | Debbie |
| Sat 13 Mar |
Organising a Reader's Workshop (P-2 and 3-6) | David and Debbie |
| Sat 1 May |
Strategies for Success with Non-fiction texts (P-2 & 3-6) | David and Debbie |
| Sat 15 May |
Phonics and Spelling, P-2; Spelling Years 3-6 | David and Debbie |
| Sat 31 July |
Assessment of Reading (P-2 and 3-6) | David and Debbie |
| Sat 14 Aug |
Assessment of Writing and Spelling (P-2 and 3-6) | David and Debbie |
| Sat 28 Aug |
Strategies for Reading Fiction Texts (P-2 and 3-6) | David and Debbie |
| Sat 4 Sept |
An Effective Writing Program & Writer's Notebook (P-2) Revisiting Writer's Notebook (3-6) |
David (P-2) Debbie (3-6) |
| Sat 16 Oct |
Writer's Workshop P-6: an introduction (repeat) | Debbie |
| Sat 30 Oct |
Readers' Workshop Years 2 - 6 | Debbie |
Regional Centres: (venues to be advised)
| Fri 30 Apr |
Bendigo | Comprehension: developing thoughtful literacy P-8 | David |
| Fri 16 July |
Traralgon | Phonics and Spelling P-4 | David |
| Fri 6 Aug |
Bendigo | Phonics and Spelling P-4 | David |
Note: If you would like to arrange a full-day seminar with David in a regional centre, please contact him (david.hornsby@mac.com).
For more information, contact Paula Welham:
- Mobile: 0402 421 864
- email: pwelham@bigpond.net.au
Early Years Literacy
- Using Real Books to teach literacy skills
- The importance of the literature strand
- Developing phonemic awareness
- Teaching phonics and spelling in context
- Rediscovering the Language-experience approach
- Getting the most out of shared reading
- Guided reading at the different developmental stages
- Developing an effective writing program
- Writers' Notebooks
- Developing an awareness of language structures and features
- Classroom organisation to support literacy learning
Middle Years Literacy
- Developing comprehension and thoughtful literacy
- Developing critical literacy
- Encouraging wide reading
- Engaging students through powerful literature
- Extending response to literature
- Using different texts for different purposes
- Shared and guided reading for older students
- Teaching with non-fiction texts
- Developing thoughtful literacy
- Developing an effective writing program
- Extending spelling strategies
- Developing language awareness (grammar)
- Making grammar 'accessible'
- Classroom organisation to support literacy learning
Learning and Teaching
- Understanding curriculum (a model that makes sense!)
- Conditions for learning
- Learning 'from the inside' (learning as an apprentice)
- Teaching: a gradual release of responsibility
- The need for explicit teaching
- Teaching with a focus on strategies
- Questioning (expanding your repertoire)
National Curriculum
- Early messages from the Framing Paper for English-literacy