Shane Pearson - Introducing PhOrMeS: A Free Foundation-Year 6 Word Reading & Spelling Curriculum
Introducing PhOrMeS: A Free Foundation-Year 6 Word Reading & Spelling Curriculum
Standing for Phonology, Orthography, Morphology, Etymology and Semantics, PhOrMeS aims to equip teachers and schools with a ready-to-teach, comprehensive, whole-class curriculum which covers all these skills.
In this webinar, you will hear from the lead author, Shane Pearson. You will learn about the components of the PhOrMeS Word Reading & Spelling Curriculum and how they progress from Foundation to Year 6, learn how PhOrMeS uses the SoR and SoL to teach decoding and spelling, and see examples of slides and instructional sequences and much much more.
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About Shane Pearson
Shane Pearson is a speech pathologist who specialises in literacy difficulties. He is passionate about effective evidence-based literacy instruction including classroom practice and intensive intervention. He is now part of the leadership team at Brandon Park Primary School and leads its whole-school literacy teaching and intervention team.
While working in schools and private practice in an intervention capacity, Shane became aware of the many instructional casualties being caused by non-evidence-based literacy teaching. This drove him to begin developing a freely available spelling and decoding curriculum. He was employed by Brandon Park Primary School in Melbourne in late 2018 primarily to improve spelling results. Although implementing evidence-based spelling instruction was just the beginning of this school’s Science of Reading and Learning journey, the spelling approach introduced at Brandon Park has continued to be refined. In 2022, spelling, decoding, phonemic awareness, handwriting and vocabulary were placed into one daily core literacy skills lesson called PhOrMeS.
In this webinar…
You will:
learn about the components of the PhOrMeS Word Reading & Spelling Curriculum and how they progress from Foundation to Year 6
be introduced to the development of PhOrMeS
learn how PhOrMeS uses the SoR and SoL to teach decoding and spelling
see examples of slides and instructional sequences
hear some of the preliminary results BPPS has achieved since using this spelling curriculum
get a brief overview of the other components of PhOrMeS (Foundation Phonemic Awareness, Handwriting, Vocabulary, Prefix and Suffix learning)
