Bishop Strachan School Professional Development

INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURED LITERACY –   January 8, 2024

This in-person introductory workshop provided an overview of literacy instruction with examples of classroom application and some hands-on activities. 
It encouraged teachers to think critically about resources and instructional practices.

Topics and Concepts introduced are listed below. There were references to the new Ontario Curriculum and UFLI program where appropriate.

• Science of Reading/ science of reading research
• Models: Simple View of Reading, Active View of Reading, Reading Rope, Writing Rope
• Components of a Structured Literacy program
• The Alphabet and letters
• Letter formation / handwriting
• Orthography – Graphemes – digraphs, trigraphs, consonant clusters
• Phonology – Phonemes & phones
• Consonants and Vowels
• Articulation – place and manner
• Voicing
• Stress
• Orthographic mapping – regular and ‘irregular’ words
• Sight Words
• Jobs of marker <e>
• Morphology – morpheme, base, affix, prefix, suffix, connecting vowel
• Etymology – root, history of English
• Matrix and Word Sums
• Syntax
• Semantics