FionaHamilton

Offering PD in orthographic inquiry supporting the development of student agency in critical thinking, vocabulary, reading & spelling, across all subject areas.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@JasmineFS208 Love that you are finding this useful Jasmine as I know your knowledge is so strong already!

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@PamelaSnow2 Thank you @PamelaSnow2! We are madly working on a paperback version for Australia as we discovered Amazon doesn’t print hardcopy here. Of course that paper size differs so reformatting required. Thrilled to see it’s already selling well.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

I have not visited here in ages
But am so excited about our new book I thought I’d jump on and share it with you. We are so excited to launch it into the world and really, really hope you’ll find it useful in your teaching of literacy.
https://t.co/N2va8yhhqv

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

Are you in China or somewhere close? Are you wondering about the best way to approach teaching word study? I am running a workshop in Shenzhen on Sept 7-8 and there are still a few places available. Check out the details.

https://t.co/29frRJ6R7R

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@KristinASimmers @seniaworldwide Go Kris that’s great news.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

A perfect book as we head to the Olympics.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@JasmineFS208 And it’s one of very few words where there is a phoneme and no grapheme to represent it now. That initial/w/ and only the story helps to explain the lack of phoneme grapheme link.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

24hours until registration closes for Play Makes It Stay.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

Why join the wordtorque July Targeted word inquiry workshops?
#1 They are targeted deep dives
#2 You'll save time - 75 min each
#3 Immediate application
#4 No decision fatigue - just 4 topics
#5 They will be recorded - view til 30th September.
https://t.co/hnrchK1212

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

Why join the wordtorque July Targeted word inquiry workshops?
#1 They are targeted deep dives
#2 You'll save time - 75 min each
#3 Immediate application
#4 No decision fatigue - just 4 topics
#5 They will be recorded - view til 30th September.
https://t.co/hnrchK1212

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@PageEngage @laurenhateleyc @angelaebrienza Fledgling-fledge means to get feathers. I just read about this today.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

I quite agree!

[Jasmine Shannon @JasmineFS208]

There are made up spellings here. Why are we shoehorning graphemes into phonemes to falsely represent English as a 1:1 map. It’s not. Giving kids 250+ spelling ‘choices’ to learn to read and write does NOT reduce cognitive load. It overloads it. There I said it.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

The results of the July workshops poll are in, stay tuned for announcements later in the week. Thanks to the hundreds of word inquiry educators who leant their voices to the selection process. What will the free workshop be? We know…and will share it soon!

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

Over 200 votes already. Can you guess which is the most requested workshop? Have your say to guide the decision.

https://t.co/QKVfaMcAgJ

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

Please vote for the targeted workshops you'd find the most helpful. The one that gets the most votes will be FREE so have your say now. The survey is open for 4 days only.
wordtorque July Workshops - Forward Planning https://t.co/oOxZpl8o2H

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@SoundSyllable Such a great question I think Jason and one I’ve been asking for a long time. What makes us decide it’s <kn> not a silent <k> ? The reason for the silent letter obviously plays into it as you said. History and frequency and how useful it is to chn to learn this functional unit.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@JasmineFS208 you must have read our mind! How magnificent! @PageEngage #wordinquiry

[Jasmine Shannon @JasmineFS208]

An interesting fact for teachers working with this base and family. You won’t see words like magnet or magnetise in this family, because the <magn> there is from another root, Latin magnetum from the Greek Magnesia, the area where magnetised ore came from.

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

@billdavidsoniii Practice is good if you are doing this grapheme by grapheme not just learning the word as a whole. Try saying the letters out loud as well as sounding the word. Just notice that some of the letters make an unexpected sound. eg w-a-s or th-a-t. https://t.co/w8bqOuSdBx

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

One last workshop in the April series. Resource Development planning - 2 x 75 min sessions. I'll guide you through the process I use and support you so you walk away with a plan and at least the start of some resources. It's not too late to register https://t.co/hnrchK1212

[FionaHamilton @wordtorque]

We had fun today focusing on helping Ss find words in a morphological family -starting with simple examples then increasing in complexity. Does pronunciation determine related words eg the ‘arch’-like a bow-family: archway, archbishop, archery, archenemy, architect? #wordinquiry