Designing a Low Variance Spelling & Reading Curriculum - Jenny Baker
Resources to download…
1. Presentation Slides
2. MPPS Scope and Sequence
Mosman Park Primary School acknowledges the expertise of Jenny Baker (Fremantle Speech Pathology) in the creation of the MPPS Scope and Sequence. MPPS documents created by Associate Principal Emma Lipscombe and Learning Support Coordinator Amanda Fraser.
3. Fry’s List of Grapheme Frequency/Regularity
4. Fremantle Spelling Survey
Also download Survey Response Sheet here
Still have questions? Check out the blogpost from Jenny available now!
Another fabulous Sketchnote of this session by Dr Charlotte Forwood
Jenny Baker
Jenny Baker is a Speech pathologist who has been working in the area of spelling and written expression for over 30 years. She is one of the directors of Fremantle Speech Pathology Services, a busy private practice in Perth that works almost exclusively with school aged children.
Jenny is also involved in the clinical education of speech pathology students, equipping them with the knowledge and experience required to operate in school-based settings.
Background
Designing a Low Variance Spelling & Reading Curriculum
A Low Variance Scope & Sequence is a document that outlines the “what” and the “when” of literacy teaching – particularly in relation to systematic synthetic phonics; it “prescribes” a “map” of the “route” for Tier 1 and Tier 2 teaching. “Low variance” means that there is very little difference in the Tier 1 content across the grade; all year one students will be learning the same representations of the same phoneme on the same day of the same week!
One of the most important aspects of the design process for a Low Variance Scope and Sequence is word selection, as the words we choose to teach must act as the “vehicles” for unitizing or mapping phonemes onto graphemes within any particular spelling system. The words must work towards facilitating the “self-teaching” process.
We must capitalise on how words sound (phonology), what they look like (orthography) and what they mean (semantics) then use these factors to determine how to make the spellings of any particular sound (such as the “A” spellings – ay, ai, a-e) salient for our young learners.
In this webinar, Jenny will discuss how to select words to create the best possible entry into any sound system based on the properties that best discriminate between the chosen spellings. Intervention strategies and assessment ideas will also be addressed.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM AEST Melbourne Time
Hundreds of TFE members tuned into the NSW Branch Decodable Readers talk with SPELD NSW in 2021. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can catch up here. While many member questions were answered in the session, we couldn’t get to all of them!
Enjoy this blog of questions answered about decodable readers. If you have more questions feel free to add a comment to this blog post.