Assessment and intervention for SSP: Q&A webinar

Overview

This Q&A webinar answers questions from teachers and school leaders about assessment and intervention for systematic synthetic phonics (SSP).

View the transcript.

Resources mentioned in the video:

Overview of assessment for phonics knowledge and skills [3.41]

Explicit direct instruction for phonics – an instructional model [8.19]

Progress monitoring tool template [13.18]

Who is this video for?

Foundation to year 2 teachers; school leaders

Questions covered in this video

Where do I start in supporting my students with progress monitoring? [0.05]

How long do I keep sounds we need to practice or build fluency with in daily review sessions? [1.03]

How do I know where to begin SSP instruction with Year 2 students? [2.19]

When do you make time for Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction during your literacy block? [5.41]

How long do we use one data set to plan instruction for all the students’ needs? [8.32]

How do we use ongoing assessment to monitor across year level cohorts? [10.39]

How can we monitor students when the commercial program we are using has no progress monitoring assessment? [12.53]

How do we assess our non-verbal students? [14.22]

How do I marry the need for decoding skills and increased English vocab in a school with high EAL numbers? [16.26]

How is implementation and differentiation impacted in a composite classroom? [19.04]

What adjustments should be made for special needs settings? [24.42]

How do we introduce progress monitoring and the response to intervention model to all staff? [26.52]

Presenter

Elaine Stanley is an experienced teacher, school leader and literacy coach. She has had extensive experience implementing systematic synthetic phonics in primary school classrooms, and has recently coached disadvantaged school around Australia.

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