In this episode, Brendan Lee speaks with Lyn Stone. Lyn is an author, linguist and consultancy and tutoring practice, Lifelong Literacy. In this chat, she addresses a number of misconceptions about teaching literacy and provides loads of practical tips for teachers. You will find out how Lyn’s passion for literacy developed, why we can’t teach the English language like we have a transparent orthography and how reading and writing are not simple, but you can view them simply.
Reviews
Resources mentioned:
Dolores G. Hiskes – Reading Pathways: Simple Exercises to Improve Reading Fluency
Ollie Lovell – Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory in Action
Ollie Lovell – Tools for Teachers
Tom Bennett – Running the Room
Lorraine Hammond
Pamela Snow and Tanya Serry – SOLAR Lab
About Lyn Stone
Lyn is an educational linguist and author. She lives and works in Victoria, Australia where she runs her consultancy and tutoring practice, Lifelong Literacy.
Lyn creates research-informed professional development seminars for teachers and other education professionals. She is a sought-after public speaker and regularly makes appearances at conferences and on live radio.
Her goal is to help teachers awaken linguistic curiosity in their students, using creative, engaging tools and strategies that are based upon scientific consensus as to what constitutes best practice.
Lyn has extensive classroom-teaching experience and is regularly employed by schools on a contractual basis to provide specialist literacy education for groups of at-risk students as well as training for teachers.
Her three best selling books, Spelling for Life, Language for Life and Reading for Life have attracted worldwide acclaim.
You can connect with Lyn:
Twitter @lifelonglit
Website: lifelongliteracy.com/
You can connect with Brendan:
Twitter: @learnwithmrlee
Facebook: @learningwithmrlee
Website: learnwithlee.net