Assisting schools to improve practice, upskill staff and achieve excellent student results through high-quality teaching and learning resources, professional learning and support.
How can we help?
Please let us know any ways we are able to assist you in providing for your students or supporting your staff.
Our Services
Some of the ways we can assist your school to improve practice, upskill staff and achieve excellent student results...
Consulting
Do you need help getting all your ducks in a row?
You need assistance to choose a phonics program that is right for your school.
You have a phonics program (the what to teach) but need help structuring phonics lessons (how to teach it).
You have purchased decodable books but do not know how to teach the phonics code.
You need help aligning decodable texts with your existing phonics sequence.
You are teaching reading in your phonics lessons but would like to include a focus on spelling as well.
You need help evaluating the effectiveness of your phonics instruction, assessing students' progress and tracking student growth.
Professional Learning
Would you like to deepen your understanding?
The evidence base behind an SSP approach and the implications for classroom instruction.
The difference between phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics, and the place of all three in an early-years literacy program.
The importance of cognitive load theory as part of an SSP approach.
How a focus on reading and spelling in your SSP lessons improves reading, spelling and writing.
How teaching spelling generalisations and the rules of syllable division can support students’ reading and spelling.
How morphology instruction supports students’ reading, spelling and vocabulary development.
Coaching
Are you looking for ways to continually improve your practice?
Coaching and mentoring: Working with teams and individual teachers to maximise the effectiveness of instruction.
Classroom practice: Lesson demonstration and observation to support practical implementation of instructional practice.
Instructional design: Developing lessons incorporating explicit instruction and cognitive load theory principles to maximise student engagement and learning.
Instructional routines: Developing and refining effective teaching routines to improve student engagement and learning outcomes.
Response to Intervention Model: Using a system of tiered instructional support, to provide the intensity and duration of instruction required to move every student along in their learning.
Differentiated instruction: Supporting teachers in meeting the diverse needs of students.
Assessment techniques: Helping teachers monitor students’ progress, evaluate the effectiveness of instruction and plan for future instruction to meet the needs of all students.
We would love to hear from you
Get in touch with Anthea and Elaine to find out more about our resources and services.