2023 Wilson Just Words Launch

Wilson Accredited Trainer Taught Just Words Launch

Prerequisite: None

Program Description: Wilson Just Words is a Tier 2 highly explicit, multisensory decoding and spelling program for students in grades 4 -12 and adults who do not require intensive intervention but do require explicit decoding and spelling instruction due to word-level deficits. This workshop provides the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Wilson Just Words curriculum.

Workshop Topics: Understanding Word Structure • Student Identification and Placement • Program Structure & Implementation • Getting Started: Unit Structure • Hit the Ground Running...an In-Depth Review of Unit 1 • Measuring Student Progress • Just Words Inter Activities

Course Objectives: of

Upon the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the skills taught in Just Words: phonics and word study (phonemic awareness, six basic syllable types in English, spelling rules, common Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes), vocabulary study, and words.

• Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction that engages multiple learning modalities with multisensory instruction, repetition, and immediate, specific feedback.

• Identify and understand the use of all materials in the Just Words Teacher’s Kit, and have a sense of how to find and use the many extended resources available on the Intervention Learning Community for Just Words (membership included with participation in this workshop).

• Use the Instructor Manual to prepare a daily learning plan and practice lesson activity procedures.

• Visualize the flow and pace of a full Just Words lesson completed with fidelity.

• Identify which students may be appropriate for a Just Words class, and understand how to assess students’ progresofhigh-frequencys in the class by using Progress Checks at the beginning of each Unit and Unit Tests at the end.

Follow up Coaching and/or Virtual Implementation Support are recommended & available through Wilson Language Training

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