Planning for Effective Reading Instruction

Award-winning Bounce Back! is the world's first Positive Education program. It consists of practical resources and strategies designed to teach social and emotional learning skills within a school environment, and to support and promote student wellbeing and resilience. This engaging and practical workshop will ensure all participants develop a thorough understanding of the Bounce Back! program and have the confidence to utilise it effectively in their school.

Accuracy, fluency and comprehension are the key components of an effective reading assessment. This workshop offers an accessible and engaging professional learning experience, designed and facilitated by experts. Participants will thoroughly examine the Benchmark Assessment System and explore how to utilise the system to accurately benchmark students and design effective literacy instruction that meets the needs of all students.

For educators who use the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System (BAS), an engaging and practical workshop designed to help you leverage the breadth of The Literacy Continuum, the core teaching resource in each BAS system. Learn how to identify emphases for teaching using BAS results, and how to plan and teach to improve students' Literacy skills using The Literacy Continuum.

Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) supports students who are reading and writing below year-level expectations from Foundation to Year 12. This workshop is designed to develop a pedagogical understanding of literacy intervention, and to provide practical approaches for effective implementation and use of Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention.

Learn how to effectively use Words Their Way to assess and identify the spelling stages of your students, tailor the learning of spelling through word study activities that support students in their spelling development and create a positive approach to the teaching and learning of spelling. This workshop is designed for educators who are current users, or recent adopters, of Words Their Way.

This workshop offers an accessible and engaging professional learning experience, designed and facilitated by experts. Participants will learn about the use of guided reading as a key instructional strategy for differentiating reading instruction within the classroom.

Mentor texts provide the key context for our teaching. It is through our thinking-aloud that we explicitly show children how to notice the craft of authors and to articulate the internal thinking these texts create.