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Teaching Students with Dyslexia:  Levels 1 – 3

 

3 x 3 Day Workshops

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For more information about these Workshops please contact Bill Hansberry

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Teaching Students with Dyslexia (TSD) has been delivered throughout Australia to individuals seeking to learn how to effectively support students with severe reading disorders who have not responded to other reading intervention programs.

 

The complete training spans three levels: three days of intensive, highly practical training. Participants will learn to teach the Playberry structure using the Playberry program materials and how to create additional teaching resources for the Playberry structure.

 

Those who wish to follow the training through all three levels will, upon completion, have trained for nine days and amassed the knowledge and materials to deliver a remedial (tier 3) structured, cumulative, multi-sensory, synthetic phonics remedial program that is considered the gold standard in dyslexia remediation.

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Schools Using the Playberry program can apply for Playberry Accreditation through the Playberry Accredited Schools Program. Parents will immediately recognise these schools as offering gold-standard literacy interventions.

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Tutors who meet our training standards and who commit to ongoing professional development with us may be admitted to the South Australian Literacy Specialists (Dyslexia) Register - SALS(D). This register has become a trusted referral resource for local Educational Psychologists and other Specialist Tutors already on the register.

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Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 1 (TSD1)

 

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Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 1 provides intervention teachers and tutors with an understanding of dyslexia. The primary focus is on introducing participants to content and methodology for tutoring in a tier (wave) 3 withdrawal situation.

 

Trainees will learn to teach using the first 22 teaching points of the Playberry T3 Intensive Multisensory Intervention Program.                                                                                                            

Topics Covered:

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  • Highly structured phonics instruction with a heavy emphasis on the alphabetic system and phonological sensitivity (awareness).

  • Drill and repetition to compensate for difficulties in auditory working memory.

  • Careful management of cognitive load

  • Multisensory methods to help anchor information.

  • Highly sequenced learning objectives.

  • Comprehension and metacognitive strategies to help students consciously apply language rule systems to guide reading and spelling.

  • Academic therapy

 

TSD1 combines theory and practice, with a primary focus on practical teaching strategies. Observing Bill teaching students, both on video and live, is part of the course. ​​

Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 2 (TSD2)

 

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Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 2 focuses on the practical application of a structured, multisensory program, following the Playberry T3 Intensive Multisensory Intervention Program.

Participants are supported in preparing a Tier 3 lesson and teaching it to a partner on Day Three. Feedback and support are generously offered.

Prerequisite: Completion of Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 1.

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  • Programming and evaluating student progress and response to intervention (RTI)

  • Teaching complex teaching points from Playberry T3 between teaching points 23-42

  • Directed discovery teaching (DDT)

  • Examining and comparing Educational Psychologists’ reports

  • Teaching morphology within the Playberry T3 program

  • Teaching irregularly spelt words through multisensory routines, morphology and etymology

  • Advanced word analysis and working with multi-syllable words

  • Preparing structured, multisensory materials, learning tasks and reading material in line with the Playberry T3 structure

  • Metacognitive and memory strategies

  • Academic Therapy

Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 3 (TSD3)

 

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Teaching Students with Dyslexia Level 3 focuses in greater depth on the practical application of the Playberry T3 Intensive Multisensory Intervention Program.   

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Prerequisite: Completion of Teaching Students with Dyslexia Levels 1 and 2.

 

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  • Practical sessions on assessment resources and evaluation procedures 

  • How to teach the complex teaching points from Playberry T3 packs three and four (TP 48-86)

  • Morphology in detail 

  • Directed discovery teaching (DDT)

  • Revisiting spelling rules and grammar

  • Evaluating students’ progress

  • Adapting Playberry T3 to focus on spelling for students who need it

  • Academic Therapy

 

Trainees will be supported to introduce an advanced Teaching Point of their own choice to a partner.  Group discussion and evaluation will follow.

Is the program structure that participants of TSD learn to teach with and create additional resources for.

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Bill Hansberry

Fullarton House

22 Gordon Street, Glenelg

South Australia 5045

Ph +61 433399767

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