Essential Word-Knowledge skills:

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 5:00 pm.to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 9:00 am.to 4:00 p.m.

The cost of the 11-hour course is $350.00. The manual is included in the cost of the program.

The objectives of this course are:

• Understanding of the skills which underlie phonemic awareness, orthography, and, therefore, the alphabetic principle;
  
  
• Understanding of how, by using phonetic analysis training as well as fluency training (Precision Teaching), students can learn to read the way skilled readers learn, that is, through being able to apply the alphabetic principle efficiently;
  
  
• Understanding the importance of being able to use the alphabetic principle (One of the attributes of the English language is that it has so many more words than most other languages.  There is no way to teach all of the words skilled readers are able to read; learners must develop the ability to apply the alphabetic principle, thus, becoming skilled readers.  When teachers provide children with the phonetic analysis of words that are being learned, teachers are providing the "gift" that talented, skilled readers have.);
  
  
• Developing teachers' expertise so that they are able to provide instruction in teaching sight-word vocabulary for reading and spelling and, at the same time, strengthen the underlying alphabetic skills and develop fluency.

Essential Word-Knowledge skills: Spelling

Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 5:00 pm.to 9:00 p.m.

The cost of the 4-hour course is $25.00. Course materials are included in the cost of the program.

Essential Word-Knowledge Skills for Spelling has been revised and will be offered to those who have completed the Essential Word-Knowledge Skills basic course.

NHPIN will sponsor both of these trainings and Jean Tucker, M.Ed., CCC-SLP will teach the course. The course will be held at the: Resources in Education (formerly Jean C. Tucker Communication & Education Skills) at 92 Portsmouth Avenue, Suite 4, Exeter, New Hampshire 03833.

By email: please contact Jean Tucker at jtucker16@rcn.com