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Classroom investigations with video clips:

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   Melvyn Ramsden introducing a Grade 1 Class to the matrix and the word sum.
   
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   Learn about bound and twin bases with a Grade 5/6 class during Melvyn Ramsden’s visit.
   
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   Marcia Henry visits a class studying the spelling/meaning connection through “Spelling           
   

4.      Jeopardy and as a tool for “guided reading” instruction.
   

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   Pete teaching kids in our “Word Work & Play Camp”.
   

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WordWorks Lessons

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   Free Lessons from our WordWorks Book and tutorial videos from Real Spelling.
   
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   Free Lessons using the Word Searcher.
   
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   Clip showing contents of WordWorks Resource Book
   

Research

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   Download Pete’s PowerPoint Presentations from recent reading conferences, and his talk at
   

2.      Oxford at the invitation of Peter Bryant and Terezinha Nunes.
   

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   Images and descriptions of Pete’s presentations in Norway and Oxford
   

Grades 1 & up dive into word structure: images and stories from classrooms...

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   Article about using Real Spelling for teaching struggling learners.
   
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   Images / descriptions of classroom instruction during Anna Bosman’s visit.
   
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   Images and descriptions of Pete’s visit to Johannesburg and the Townships of Soweto.
   
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   Images and descriptions of Pete’s presentations in Norway and Oxford.
   

Some key orthographic lessons from working with students...

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   The misspelling <*saycl>: Understanding “sound” in spelling by clarifying the difference
   

2.     between  the phoneme and phones.
   

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   Understand “connector vowels” by studying the word <automatic>
   
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   Making sense with morphology and etymology - different, but related routes to meaning.
   
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   Problem solving meaning by understanding structure: Does <hearth> have a <heart>?
   
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   A correspondence between Melvyn & a Grade 4 student on how <secret>, <secretary>,         
   

7.     <discern> and other words are linked.
   

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   Word Structured Inquiry from the bottom up - morphological analysis: Dense through
   

9.     condensation
   

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    Word Structured Inquiry in Grade 1: Using word sums in a lesson on long vowel sounds,
    

11.     problem solving the <y/i> patterns  in context.
    

Scenes from WordWorks Workshops

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   Scenes from our 3-Day Course
   
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   Lessons, images and videos from WordWorks workshops in Asia and the Middle East.
   
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   Images and descriptions of Pete teaching word structure to kids in Johannesburg and from
   

4.      the Townships of Soweto.
   

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   Variety of Workshop examples
   

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