We offer workshops to schools who would like to benefit from our expertise in the field of learning difficulties and remediation of language based learning disabilities. All workshops are held at the REACH Centre unless otherwise noted
Contact us for more information or to arrange a workshop in your school.

 

 

MSLE Strategies for Teachers:  Tips and

Tricks from an O-G Toolbox

Accepting registrations for summer 2012 very soon!

OG Tips and Tricks for Teachers:
This workshop has been designed for teachers who want the information about the phonetic structure of the language so that they can implement MSL in their classrooms or learning support environments.

This training will include:

• Understanding the LD Learner
• Understanding the 3-tier intervention model and how to identify struggling students early
• Building a systematic, sequential spelling program for your classroom
• Multisensory strategies for teaching:
• Phonemic segmentation
• Basic graphemes (spellings of sounds)
• Spelling generalizations for common spelling confusions
• Spelling rules
• Syllabication (6 kinds of syllables and how they affect spelling and reading)
• Teaching Penmanship strategies
• Non-phonetic words  (sight words vs. high frequency words)

Watch here for our flyer. Seats fill fast so register early. To see what our past attendees have said about this course, click here.

Tips and Tricks

Registration fees:

Special early bird: register before April 15: $425.
Early bird: register by May 31: $450.
Registration after June 1: $495.

Manuals for the course are $70. and can be ordered with registration.

Courses run pending minimum registration being met.

Register for the following course dates:

July 9 – 12, 2012: Richmond, BC

July 16 – 19, 2012: Langley, B.C.

     (location: REACH Langley) ***Register for this course below!!

July 23- 26, 2012: Calgary, AB

 

 

Register for our Langley course here:

Watch this site for details and registration, or sign up for notifications from our website for registration updates.

 

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Foundations of Multisensory Structured Language Education (MSL) is an introductory course to Orton-Gillingham education and training. This 30 hour training course has been designed to prepare educators for either clinical training in the Orton-Gillingham approach or Orton-Gillingham training for classroom teachers. Approved by the Canadian Academy of Therapeutic Tutors, Orton-Gillingham as approved foundational training, the course also serves as an important link to current research for Orton-Gillingham practitioners currently in practice.

Course content:

• The Dyslexic Learner
• Introduction to of the Orton-Gillingham approach
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonology (sounds and sound-symbol relationships)
• Decoding (from sound-symbol to blending sounds to text reading)
• Monitoring reading fluency quickly and easily
• Orthography -lower level spelling rules and upper level spelling rules
• Response to Intervention (RTI) in the classroom

This is an accredited course that includes assignments and exam work for course completion.

Click here to find out about our presentation of this course being taught in Egypt, Feb. 21 – 27, 2012.

Click here to find out about our presentation of this course being taught in Dubai, UAE, March 1-4, 2012.

Click here to find out about our presentation of this course being taught in British Columbia (SFU Surrey) beginning April 24, 2012.

 

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Our “Lunch and Learn” workshops are an opportunity to have our Orton-Gillingham Trainers come to your school and offer a workshop during the school’s lunch hour.  These brief, targeted workshops offer hands-on strategies to educators in a school without having to schedule time outside of the regular school day.  Comprehensive handouts are included in each session which allow each teacher to bring the new information back into their classroom and easily implement what they have learned.  Some topics include:

Multisensory Strategies for Teaching Penmanship
Alphabet Awareness Skills
Teaching Non-phonetic Words
Blending Skills for Emergent Readers
Explicit, Multisensory Teaching of Spelling Rules
Fun and Games to Reinforce Spelling Rules
Ratios and Comparing Multiple Spelling Choices
Phonological Awareness – Skills and Activities
Transitions from Phonological Awareness to Phonics
What is Orton-Gillingham?
What are Learning Disabilities?
Teaching Morphology for Meaning at All Grade Levels

We are able to offer workshops of a variety of other topics.
Please contact our centre to find out how to bring a
Lunch and Learn session to your school.