In conjunction will all of this you can also take the opportunity to attend a Nelson Professional Development session before a selection of the product showcases. A Focus on Levelled Texts and Guided Reading and Explicitly Teaching Writing with NAPLAN are the two sessions offered before various of the showcases, please see table below for locations.

A Focus on Levelled Texts and Guided Reading

This workshop focuses on best practice in the teaching of literacy – that is to ensure we have the right book in the hands of the right child at the right time. We will look at organising Guided Reading groups and instruction during oral reading of levelled text.

We will unpack the matching of children to text using the Benchmarking process. Then we will explore taking Reading Records and full analysis of recorded reading behaviours.

This session is for any teacher who would like to refresh their skills in the taking, analysis and use of levelled text. It will also be instructional and supportive for Graduate teachers and those newly returning to the profession.

Session Outline:

• Structure of the Literacy Block
• The Guided Reading Process
• Taking a Running (or Reading) Record
• Levels of Running Record analysis
• Error analysis: Meaning Structure, Visual 
• Visible and invisible actions taken by the reader – decoding, phrasing and fluency, comprehension
• Using a Running Record effectively

Explicitly Teaching Writing with links to NAPLAN

As children are now assessed nationally using criteria based indicators, teachers must explicitly teach students about the text, sentence and word level demands of text.

Session outline:

• Identifying the features, at the whole text, sentence and word level, of a range of text types
• Focus on Narrative and Persuasive texts in line with NAPLAN 2014 requirements 
• The need for all our students to access and manipulate language 
• Teaching children the structure of text 
• Benchmarking/assessing children’s writing 
• Effective strategies to assist students to learn editing skills 
• Teaching/Learning activities to develop vocabulary for writing factual texts
• Linking the explicit teaching of reading to the explicit teaching of writing
• This workshop is suitable for all year levels and would be especially beneficial to graduate teachers or teachers re-entering the profession

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Presented by James Ferguson 

This practical hands-on workshop will examine the grammatical features of differing text types. We will also address the spelling demands of such text types including structure and language features, and linking the explicit teaching of spelling to the explicit teaching of writing.

Session outline:

• Identifying the Literacy Demands of specific learning areas
• Supporting students with their writing skills
  
• Explicitly teaching grammar within the writing program
• Four spelling knowledges: Phonological, Visual, Morphemic and Etymological
  
• High frequency words
• Linking spelling to writing and grammar
• Spelling generalisations
• Resources for checking spelling
• Benchmarking and assessing children’s writing – incorporating spelling