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All courses are courtesy of UWA Extension. Please view their web site for conditions of entry.

Participants will be able to purchase PHONICS UNLIMITED at a reduced price.

They will also receive a password enabling them to access EASE INTO READING free of charge.
This resource is available for download on a web site by the same name.

All participants will also receive handout notes for all lectures except Reading Through Tears.

Click on the bars below for details on each of the lectures.

THE MOST EXCITINTING DEVELOPMENT IN LITERACY IN A DECADE - Byron Harrison


Course number 10337381

Tuesday 24 Aug 6.30-8.30pm



THE MOST EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN LITERACY IN A DECADE
This lecture introduces VAS (Visual Attention Span)Theory to WA parents and teachers for the first time. Already described in Britain as the most exciting development in literacy in a decade, this breakthrough research reveals the science underlying whole word processing, confusions between the letters b-d-p, name and sound confusions and inaccurate word guessing on whole word processing. It lays the basis for important policy decisions, the need to start reforms at Prep and the errors parents are making even before Kindergarten.

It identifies at-risk signs in children thought to be average or better and does so years before they become manifest. This lecture may transform your teaching practices by replacing dogma with data, rhetoric with reason.

MAXIMUM ENROLMENTS 46 Price $29.00



DIAGNOSING READING DEFICITS ON THE INTERNET Byron Harrison


Course number 10337391
Wednesday 25 Aug 6.30-8.30pm


DIAGNOSING READING DEFICITS ON THE INTERNET
Imagine if you knew what the strengths and weaknesses of every child in your class were. Imagine if you knew in advance which children were going to struggle with sight words and which were going to find that task easy. Imagine if you knew what the most effective and the most damaging teaching strategies for each child were ? even before you
started to teach. This breakthrough system, designed by VAS (Visual Attention Span) Research, has just finished its trials. It delivers that kind of information and more, much more, and it is all described in automatic reports available just seconds after conducting the test. New research, new information.

MAXIMUM ENROLMENTS 98 Price $29

EASY DOES IT - LEARNING TO READ (LECTURE) - Jean Harrison


Course number 10337401
Tuesday 31 Aug 6.30-8.30pm


EASY DOES IT - LEARNING TO READ
Learning to read is a task that comes so easy to some children but is so mystifying to others. It is little wonder that parents and teachers become so concerned when Sally cries every morning when she has to go to school. Come and sample two resources that offer the joy of reading success to children like Sally. Learn why these learning hurdles occur for some children and how they can be overcome. Prevention is always the best option. For those students who have already suffered long-term reading failure a combination of these two resources offers the first taste of success.
 
This talk is suitable for teachers, tutors, teacher aides, home educators and interested parents.  Jean will will introduce resources Phonics Unlimited & Ease into Reading which she developed having run a learning centre for more than a decade. Jean lived with the frustration of matching worksheets from multiple resources for each and every lesson. Eventually she began work on a fully integrated resource that would:
* help in finding a starting point.
* blend together Reading, Spelling, and Writing.
* incorporate Homophones, Spelling Rules, Sentence Structure, Comprehension, Punctuation, Simple Grammar and Sight Words.
* present a strong structure & sequence with one worksheet leading to the next.
* have inbuilt consolidation and work at 3 levels of difficulty for mixed groups.
* offer a stress free way to teach and the students a stress free way to learn.
* begin at the very beginning and end at early secondary.
* use all of the senses making it ideal for children with learning difficulties.

MAXIMUM ENROLMENTS 98 Price $29

EASY DOES IT - LEARNING TO READ - (WORKSHOP) Jean Harrison


Course number 10337411
Wednesday 1 Sep 10am-12noon


EASY DOES IT - LEARNING TO READ (HANDS-ON WORKSHOP)
So you have been to the talk "Easy does it - learning to read". Now come and experience the power of these resources, Phonics Unlimited & Ease into Reading. While the actual resources are easy to use, the procedures involved are specifically designed to strengthen the student's ability to learn.

The approach is low stress and multi-sensory. Participants will get hands-on experience of the resources - working with the learning cards & work sheets and following the procedures in groups. No prior experience is necessary. 
Having run a learning centre for more than a decade, Jean lived with the frustration of matching worksheets from multiple resources for each and every lesson. Eventually she began work on a fully integrated resource that would:
* help in finding a starting point.
* blend together Reading, Spelling, and Writing.
* incorporate Homophones, Spelling Rules, Sentence Structure, Comprehension, Punctuation, Simple Grammar and Sight Words.
* present a strong structure & sequence with one worksheet leading to the next.
* have inbuilt consolidation and work at three levels of difficulty for mixed groups.
* offer a stress free way to teach and the students a stress free way to learn.
* begin at the very beginning and end at early secondary.
* use all of the senses making it ideal for children with learning difficulties.

This workshop is suitable for teachers, tutors, teacher aides, home educators and interested parents. 

MAXIMUM ENROLMENT 24 Price $69

READING THROUGH TEARS - Byron Harrison & Jean Harrison


Course number 10337421
Wednesday 1 Sep 6.30-8pm


READING THROUGH TEARS - CASE HISTORIES OF CHILDREN WITH READING PROBLEMS
The book Reading through tears is the experience of two people, each having been the parent of a child with reading difficulties. Byron, in his optometry practice, devised a program for testing the sub-skills of reading. Jean completed a Bachelor of Education and later a Masters of Educational Studies. Fate and a common interest in understanding the problems their respective children had suffered brought the two together.
Jean opened a learning centre for all those children who were put into the ?too hard? basket. The big surprise was that 70% of the students were not learning disabled but nevertheless found the reading task daunting. Come and share their story and ultimate success.

Maximum Enrolments 98 Price $20

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