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Next Jolly Phonics Training for Parents
These popular 2.5 hour workshops, held every 6 weeks on the Gold Coast Queensland are created for parents, carers and grandparents - you do not need any teaching experience or knowledge of the teaching of reading and spelling to participate. |
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Book School (and Early Learning Centre) Professional Training (In-House) - Focus on Jolly Phonics in (Pre-Prep) Prep/ Year 1
Emma offers 2.5 or 5 hour workshops with a focus on the Jolly Phonics program (used to supplement teaching, not to replace it) Learn how to use the Jolly Phonics handbook and resources to introduce and reinforce important early reading, writiing and spelling skills. Because this program has actions, songs and stories irelating to letter sounds it very much appeals to children aged 3-7. If taught with enthusiams they really e njoy this fun, multi-sensory approach to learning, and it is easy to involve parents/ carers/ grandparents etc. |
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Making Reading and Spelling Easier for All. Discovering Sound Pics™ (can be used alongside any phonics program)
This unique approach enables teachers to more easily understand why so many children struggle to read and spell with confidence, and what they can do about it. This workshops is all teachers need to teach ANY child to read and spell by the age of six- and to help those older students who have lost motivation and need a fresh approach. |
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Important Things to Know About Reading and Spelling
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Jolly Phonics and Sound Pics™ Training Australia.
Also now offering training in '
Early Screening for Reading and Spelling Difficulties'.
Read Australia™ are Based in Queensland and offer training courses and in-service teacher workshops Nationwide.
Book 1:1 Training with the Reading Whisperer™
Emma Hartnell-Baker
Become a Level 1 Accredited Read Australia™
Reading Coach
- Includes Free Web Site Listing, Free Ongoing Support for 12 Months.
Learn how to teach children to read and spell - useful for parents, early years teachers, pre-primary and primary teachers in training and for those wishing to start their own early reading groups.
9.30 - 3.30pm - Flexible Mutually Convenient Dates -
1:1 Intensive Training in The Development of Phonemic Awareness, Plus How to Teach Phonics Directly, Systematically and Explicitly. Includes info about Jolly Phonics
and Read, Write Inc
- $1350 fully inclusive when training on the Gold Coast QLD
or within a 40 mile radius
Jolly Phonics Accredited Trainer, QLD Australia
Emma Hartnell-Baker BEd Hons MA Special Educational Needs has been an educator for over twenty years. Her work within Early Childhood was recognised by the UK Government when she was appointed as a Childcare and Early Years Education Inspector, employed to Assess and Report on Standards. She has specialised in Personal, Social and Emotional Development including Positive Behaviour Management Strategies- working with pre-primary aged children through to disengaged teenagers. The correlation between reading and spelling difficulties and behavioural problems is so strong that she urges educators to take a preventative approach, supporting the 'Reading by Six' Campaign, Australia. In order to effectively prevent reading difficulties early screening is crucial. She has combined early reading screening with intensive early reading teaching to offer a unique assessment tool. Please book Emma and her team at 'Read Australia™' to assess your Prep aged children over a 2 week period. Early reading screening can be undertaken in all Australian states.
Postal Address:
Read Australia™
PO Box 976 Sanctuary Cove
Gold Coast QLD 4212 Australia
Ph 07 5510 9960
Email: emma@ReadAustralia.com
ABN : 94 542 903 967
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Prep / Year 1 Screening Program Package Includes Staff Training.
Nominate a minimum of 2 staff to use this program within your school. Emma Hartnell-Baker will show these teachers/ learning support staff how to use the program. They will learn how to work with all Prep/ Year 1 aged children in small groups (max 6) for 20 minutes per day over a two week period. Within the program all are screened for reading difficulties not only based on prior learning experiences but but also on 'teachability', which includes ''curiosity' and 'motivation'.
Initial program training is 5 hours and can be delivered in-house. You can then start using the program whenever covenient for your school.
This early reading assessment program enables teachers to test for the abilities and skills that have been empirically identified to be predictive of or associated with reading acquisition or reading disabilities.
What Happens Next?
Results are assessed and recorded, and sent to Emma (Read Australia) Plans are developed for children iidentified as 'at risk' - and then reviewed wiith class teachers and support staff. Ongoing support is offered by Emma as part of your package-, including lesson plans and resources.
All Prep, Year 1 and 2 staff will receive a 2.5 hour professional development worshop based on these results- learning how to fill the gaps, especially if there are issues regarding intentional teaching - phonemic awareness, phoneme segmentation, manipulation, blending, code knowledge etc.
Cost of Training Package- Inc 5 hour (whole day) intensive initial training, Program inc Resources, 2.5 hour lower primary teacher training and ongoing support $6975
Older Students
If you are not happy with your NAPLAN results and feel that literacy levels could be higher please contact us to ask about assessments for older students.
If children are not reading and spelling with confidence they cannnot reach their potential across the curriculum- even within maths students need to be able to read and comprehend problems in order to work through mathematical solutions. Raising reading and spelling levels can dramatically improve NAPLAN results across the board. Improved literacy also correlates with decreased behavioural problems and absenteeism.
Very few teachers in Australia- especially Queensland- are trained to identify reading and spelling difficulties and know what to do to help students overcome them. Read Australia™ will show you how to indentify specific learning difficulties and offer training and support for learning support staff so that they understand how to procede. Free ongoing mentoring support is then offered to the adults working with these students.
Specific teaching will enable children to start utilising different parts of the brain, and read and spell in the same way 'good' readers do this.
It is CRUCIAL that this starts in Prep. This will enable ALL of your students to be reading by the end of their first year of school. An exciting new world of 'reading to learn' then takes over as the focus is no longer on 'learning to read'.
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Why Screen?
More than 75% of students
who are not identified until
Grade 3 never catch up with
their peers.
More reasons to
identify
and be able to start early
intervention plans BEFORE
the end of Prep (& certainly
no later than the end of
Year 1) are here
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Request More Info/ Book Screening Training for your School
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Teaching Reading - Report and Recommendations 
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Almost half of all Australians aged 15-74 years had literacy skills below the level required to participate effectively in our society, according to a 2008 study from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The Victorian Auditor-General has noted that efforts to improve the literacy achievement have done little to improve the average achievement of students across the state, despite an investment of $1.19 billion in the six years prior to the completion of the study in 2009.
The report was also critical of the failure to assess the effectiveness of the key elements of its approach to literacy, for example, the Reading Recovery intervention for year one students.
Read more;
Use Your Brain and Teach Children to Read Properly (Dr Kerry Hempenstall)
- Learning to Read in Australia
- Recent behavioral studies show that phonological deficits -- that is, difficulties in processing the sound system of language, which often leads to difficulties in connecting the sounds of language to letters -- are similar in poor readers regardless of IQ
- Brain Imaging Shows Physiological Basis for Dyslexia
- Brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ. The work provides more definitive evidence about poor readers having similar kinds of difficulties regardless of their general cognitive ability.
How can poor readers improve - and become proficient, confident readers (and spellers)?
Recent research shows using brain mapping how intensive training on phonemic awareness and phonics enables this to happen. Please refer to this article for example. The intensive reading program the 37 children took had strong components in phonemic awareness and phonics. Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to identify phonemes, the individual sounds that make up spoken words. The word "bag," for example, is made up of three such elemental units of speech, which can be represented as bbb, aaa, and ggg. The brain strings together the 40 phonemes making up the English language to produce hundreds and thousands of words. In speech, this process is unconscious and automatic.- We therefore test for phonemic awareness, and introduce an intensive 2 week program to get them started. Read Australia™ will then train your staff team to know how to carry on with this work, and ensure that EVERY child is reading and spelling to at LEAST their expected grade level by the end of Prep, utlilising parents and support staff.
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