Kathryn Grace has been a classroom teacher, special educator, literacy coach, learning specialist, and language arts coordinator for over 40 years in Vermont's public schools. She is best known as the originator of Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping (PGM), now used across the world to help teachers and students better understand the alphabetic principle. First published in 1991, Really Great Reading will soon release the 4th edition of Ms. Grace's Phonics and Spelling through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, a critically acclaimed work that contains sequential, systematic, and explicit lessons which help students understand the reality that the number of sounds (phonemes) they hear in a word may be different from the number of letters that represent those sounds.

Thursday evening, October 24th from 6:30-8 PM in the Waterbury Public Library's SAL Room, Ms. Grace will lead an interactive, hands-on workshop which will help participants better understand how the sounds of spoken language (phonemes) can be represented by one or more letters (graphemes). This is essential in learning to read, spell and store information in your brain.
PGM starts with speech sound awareness and highlights phoneme-grapheme relationships by depicting the internal details of words. Its multisensory process is highly effective, grounded in decades of scientific reading research, is extremely engaging for students (and teachers) of all ages. And it's fun!

This workshop is the second in the series "Teaching ALL Children to Read: Understanding Vermont's New Literacy Law." It will clearly demonstrate the connection between sound and print and how it teaches students to read well. There is no guesswork involved! There is time for Q & A after the workshop to deepen participants' knowledge and help to understand the potential impact of Act 139, VT's new literacy law.

This workshop is for teachers, parents and grandparents, caregivers and anyone who has an interest in student reading!
Thursday, October 24th from 6:30-8 PM.

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