Pearson's Words Their Way™ Virtual Institute is a cost-effective and schedule-friendly way to help teachers, leaders, and coaches fully unlock the potential of word study. This virtual institute helps educators use student data to enhance instruction with the ultimate goal of producing better readers and writers and showing gains in academic performance of students in their school and district.

The Words Their Way Virtual Institute will help you learn how to implement the word study approach from the best selling resource, Words Their Way™: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction, 5th edition. This 4-week institute consists of 12 sessions in which participants complete a series of assignments on their own schedule as well meeting as a virtual group to collaborate, discuss, and share information with their colleagues. The sessions are led by an expert in word study, and one session is devoted to a question and answer session with an original Words Their Way author. Participants gain valuable information on their own schedule, with no travel required, while still receiving high-quality instruction and guidance.

Key features include:

• High-quality, expert-led research-based training developed in collaboration with the Words Their Way author team using the research-based text, Words Their Way™
• Practical information on how to implement the word study approach in your classroom
• Specific activities and critical instruction for students in each spelling stage

Agenda

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Participant Outcomes:

By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

• Identify the layers of English orthography and the stages of spelling development that correspond to each layer
• Analyze data from the Words Their Way Qualitative Spelling Inventory to identify student needs and organize students for instruction
• Understand the characteristics of students in the Emergent, Letter-Name, Within Word Pattern, Syllables and Affixes, and Derivational Relations stages of spelling development
• Differentiate word study instruction to meet student needs at each developmental stage
• Select appropriate instructional strategies and activities to meet the needs of students in each stage of development
• Facilitate the discovery of how words work, scaffold student learning, and encourage student exploration and discussion
• Help students to articulate hypotheses about words and reflect on their learning
• Translate learning about instructional routines, management strategies, and parent communication to effectively manage a word study program

Who Should Attend

• Classroom Teachers (K-8)
• Literacy Coaches
• Reading Specialists
• School & District Administrators
• Curriculum directors and coordinators
• Pre-service teachers

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Registration Fees

Price: $250