Workshops

Looking for ideas for professional development or conference workshops?

Brenda offers the following workshop topics:

1. Letters and Sounds - Establishing the Foundation for Reading – (approx. 2 hours)

In this session, participants will be given:

• a brief overview of research and literature on the importance of teaching the alphabetic principle
• a rationale for focussing on letter sounds and lower case letters
• a review of phonemic awareness skills
• suggestions for developing accuracy and automaticity
• assessment materials
• suggestions for follow-up activities once letters and sounds are taught

2. Reducing and Reversing Letter Reversals(approx. 1.25 hours)

Letter reversals are a concern in every classroom. In this session, participants will learn:

• two key strategies to help prevent reversals from happening
• techniques to correct many of the common reversal problems
• specific strategies to correct the b – d confusion

Please note: Sessions 1 and 2 can be combined into a full-morning, 3 hour session.

3. An Overview of Itchy's Alphabet program – (approx. 2.5 hours)

This session is designed to provide those teachers using Itchy's Alphabet or planning to implement the program with a demonstration of the program and its various components, including:

• an introduction to and background information on Itchy's Alphabet
• a demonstration lesson from the Teaching Guide
• ways to use the various support materials
• hands-on activities with alphabet books and favorite children's story books
• development of phonological awareness activities

Here is what attendees are saying about Brenda's workshops:

- "Awesome session!!"

- "Super"

- "Brenda Larson was fantastic!"

- "Excellent presentation! Lots of great ideas and loved the program she uses!"

- "Brenda was a great speaker. She was open to questions and had lots of knowledge to share. Well organized."

- "Got lot out of this workshop!"

- "Very helpful. I appreciated the systematic approach with emphasis on the visual!"

- "Brenda was very thorough."

- "Thanks for the great tips!"

- "I loved her ideas on teaching letters and sounds."

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