Hello, I’m Louise Selby. I’ve worked in the field of specific learning difficulties and dyslexia for many years in many roles, but one thing that’s always driven me is my passion to enable, empower and equip. My aim in setting up this training portal is to provide useful training for busy practitioners and parents. It’s high quality and based on my knowledge, experience and expertise, but offers content you can access easily and use immediately. Everything you’ll find on this portal aims to be hugely practical and accessible, and the films come with resources as well. There’s courses for parents, specialists and school based practitioners, so do take a look – and let me know if there’s training you’d like to see in future!
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We’ve come a long way in understanding dyslexia. But in many classrooms, that understanding hasn’t fully translated into practice. This two-part webinar series will help you bridge that gap - with practical, evidence-informed strategies you can use immediately.
Morph Mastery for Small Groups is a powerful new adaptation of the successful Morph Mastery 1:1 intervention – now reimagined to support small groups of learners aged 9 to 13 who are still struggling with spelling despite quality phonics teaching.
This course for parents of school aged children is relevant to any parent wanting to support their child with literacy and learning, whether diagnosed with dyslexia or not. We'll cover reading, spelling, writing, assistive technology, working memory and processing, learning how to learn, exams, and thinking positively about dyslexia.
By popular demand, I am offering free access to films of complete Morph Mastery lessons. Meet the fantastic Phoebe, who is in Year 3 and at the very start of her Morph Mastery journey (week 3). Phoebe has a good grasp of phonics but struggles to apply this fluently in reading and spelling. She is loving the morphological approach!
This is an interactive, step by step course in delivering the intervention, including understanding the methodology and using the assessments to inform learning and track progress. There's 8 core sessions over 8 weeks with tasks in between, and by the end of the sessions you'll be up and running with the intervention.
Metacognition is the process of thinking about learning. It's an active process which every effective learner uses, and research shows that teaching metacognition improves learning outcomes. In this course you'll gain some understanding of what meta-cognition looks like practically in the classroom. You'll learn what the barriers to meta-cognition are for dyslexics, but also what strengths they may have to help. You'll get some practical ideas and resources for things you can do to reduce those barriers and maximise those strengths.
This one hour training course provides explanations and examples of the different ways in which books are levelled, when and why these different levelling systems are used, and how to choose books purposefully and accurately so that your learners succeed. You'll be shown how to take a very simple running record to determine whether a book is at the right level, and how to use the "Efficacious Four" method of checking comprehension.
This film shows you how to say all the commonly taught sounds in their purest forms and aligns with all systematic synthetic phonics programmes.
Working memory difficulties impact the whole of life. This film takes you through a day in the life of Zeb, a school boy who struggles to hold information in mind whilst working on it (working memory). A film for professionals and parents.
In this short course you'll learn the basic terminology, progression of teaching and see a film about how to articulate sounds. You'll also see some practical examples of how phonics is taught, and some ideas of how to support children who are struggling, including games.
This short course provides clear and accessible explanations of what working memory is, how it relates to cognitive load, and how it impacts learning. The focus is on practical strategies that can be used by any educator in any classroom
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