PD Opportunity: Teaching Structural Word Analysis to Middle School Students

Teaching Structural Word Analysis to Middle School Students

Gresham Barlow School District/ Dexter McCarty Middle school

1400 SE 5th St, Gresham, OR 97080

Alicia Roberts Frank, Ed.D & Wyatt DeRemer

Times for all dates are 4:00-5:30.  All sessions are free and open to the public.

PDU/CEUs are available through Lewis & Clark College for $20.
To register, contact: Alicia Roberts-Frank, Ed.D alicia@decodingdyslexiaor.org

           

Date	Topics/Activities
4/28	Dyslexia Simulation – In this session, participants will gain an understanding of what it feels like to struggle to read, write, and perform school-related tasks with dyslexia.
5/5	Educational needs of middle school students with dyslexia and related language learning disabilities -- In this session, participants will gain an understanding of the complexities of the English language as well as some of the linguistic patterns that simplify learning to read and write words.  Participants will begin to understand the learning struggles of students with dyslexia and the social and emotional toll that can be the result of struggling to learn to read.  They will take with them an understanding of the importance of accommodations for older struggling readers and strategies to support learning.
5/12	Orthography of English -- In this session, participants will learn about the spelling conventions of English and the influences of word origin and history on how the language is expressed in written form.  They will learn and practice the processes of decoding and encoding individual words, including dividing words into syllables and understanding how spelling influences pronunciation. Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of handwriting and how spelling supports reading.  They will have the opportunity to practice reading nonsense words, sorting syllable types, and basic encoding and decoding procedures.
5/26	Orthographic conventions & morphology -- In this session, participants will learn about prefixes, roots, derivational and inflectional suffixes, and the orthographic and phonologic changes that occur when affixes are added.  Participants will gain an understanding of other ways that dyslexia can affect students’ social & emotional lives and strategies to support students in and out of the classroom.  They will learn about Greek and Latin influences on the English language, practice sorting words and constructing lessons that explicitly teach structural word analysis, and create a plan for incorporating an understanding of dyslexia and the structure of English into their teaching.
6/2	Structured preparation for reading and structured reading -- In this session, participants will learn about the important roles that phrases and clauses play in fluent reading with comprehension.  They will learn strategies for choosing phrases from texts, providing explanations and practice with phrases, and structuring reading for fluency and comprehension.  They will learn about successful individuals with dyslexia who illuminate the strengths that can accompany a different way of learning.