Hot Topic Session at the Vermont Literacy Conferences, hosted by Partnerships for Literacy Learning

Copresented with Heather Ferreira, 1st-2nd Multiage Teacher at Underhill Central School, Underhill, Vermont
In this co-facilitated session with Beth Moore, a literacy coach, & Heather Ferreira, a 1st-2nd grade multiage classroom teacher, you’ll learn a simple, kid-friendly method for orthographic mapping of high-frequency words. High-frequency words are the words children will see in nearly every book they read and will write every time they create their own stories. These words are so common that learning to recognize these words automatically is an important step in becoming a strong reader and writer. Instead of rote memorization, children can be taught that some parts of the word are spelled in a way that is expected — and other parts of the word need to be learned “by heart.”