- “Switch on to Spelling” and "Spelling Under Scrutiny" are professional development guides and resources to enable teachers to improve the spelling skills of upper primary, secondary and adult students. Both texts allow for quick or thorough approaches to instruction which means instruction can be differentiated to meet students' learning needs.
Over the next two years SharpTeaching will work with Joy to transfer the information bound in these texts into SharpTeaching's online format. With the use of online video modelling, support tutorials and online resource libraries, teachers, educators and students will come to learn about Joy's world of spelling and phonic awareness whilst immersed in the easiness of online learning.
>> Go to Spelling Online - STAGES
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- THEORY - presentations that explain the research base and the pedagogical background of the resources
- TESTS - tutorials on how to use and analyse the assessments from these resources
- VIDEO - tutorials that demonstrate teaching strategies for the various topics covered in the resources.
- SUPPORT MATERIAL - email tutorials and resource libraries constructed and uploaded
- BIOGRAPHY
Author, publisher and literacy consultant Joy runs professional development workshops for teachers in New Zealand and internationally. She originally trained and worked as an Occupational Therapist then in 2000, she completed a Master of Education degree with first class honours at Massey University.
She has been working in the literacy field for 15 years and has co-ordinated a number of literacy projects in both primary and secondary schools.
Joy developed the Word Detective range of resources has written and published a complete range of spelling resources.
She also works with three other New Zealand companies and the Word Detective range now includes a range or early readers that scaffold the development of phonics knowledge in REAL books, an expanding range of interactive software, and a series of music CDs designed to help children develop vocabulary and phonological awareness skills.
Joy was a contributing author to the Ministry of Education publications Effective Literacy Practice Years 1 to 4 and Effective Literacy Practice Years 5 to 8(Learning Media). She is also a member of the Ministry of Education's National Literacy Reference Group which meets annually to discuss and advise on the direction of literacy instruction in New Zealand.
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