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The Best Word List is a Book!

There are two items at the top of just about every primary literacy teacher’s wish list: 1. Scope and sequence documents, 2. Word lists. Leaving 1. aside for a moment, what’s the problem with word lists? Why does linguist and school coach  Lyn Stone never create or issue them? Find out why Lyn finds herself saying, ’The best word list is a book!’ everywhere she goes. Leave this talk with a much better chance of never having to seek a word list again.

Lyn Stone

Lyn Stone's job is to use research, evidence and linguistics to produce programs, methods and texts for students, teachers and educators worldwide. Lyn gained her linguistics degree at University College London and worked in a variety of speech and language settings in Australia since graduating in 1994. She is also trained in Makaton, Auslan, Read Write Inc., Little Learners Love Literacy, Explicit Direct Instruction and Spalding.

Lyn has been in private practice since 1998 and has continued to train and mentor teachers whilst developing her linguistics-led learning programs. Her busy tutoring practice has overseen the training and mentoring of many fine practitioners over the last two decades and continues to help hundreds of students in Australia and overseas of all ages fill their gaps in literacy. 

Lyn’s Jim Jam Gang series, developed free of charge over Covid lockdown since in 2020 has been viewed by tens of thousands of children and adults all over the world. Lyn is an experienced public speaker with many radio and print media appearances.