New Course Design

Comprising six comprehensive modules, alongside tried and true teaching methods to get everyone excelling, this hands-on, engaging workshop is designed to raise teacher capacity to ensure mastery of the principles of structured literacy for all students. Language Arts helps a teacher use up to date, research-based information about how we learn. It then helps them to apply that knowledge to imparting vital information about how English writing works. The Language Arts approach has a clear scope and sequence from Foundation-6, covering spelling, grammar & syntax, and morphology. It dovetails well with any high quality systematic synthetic phonics program. It effectively answers the question: “Now that my students have learned the code, what next?” It is laid out using a direct, explicit approach with worked examples and incorporates robust teaching techniques designed to reduce cognitive load and increase retention. It comes with resources and equipment for immediate application in the classroom. Language Arts was written for an international audience within the anglophone world. Designed and refined over two decades of clinical practice and school consultancy by Scottish linguist Lyn Stone, it takes into account her unique perspectives on accent and dialect. Note: Prices are inclusive of 10% Goods and Services Tax (GST) for all Australian residents.

Suitable for

  • Primary teachers whose students are ready to read to learn
  • Teaching assistants wishing to know more about literacy instruction
  • Education professionals working with groups and individuals
  • Homeschooling parents who wish to give their children a high quality literacy framework
  • Secondary teachers who have the desire to increase the quality of written work across the curriculum
  • School leaders looking for ways to keep up the momentum generated through high quality early literacy instruction

Included materials

  • A F-6 scope and sequence, encompassing when and how to teach spelling & handwriting, morphology and grammar & syntax,
  • Digital downloads of each element manual, containing scripts, lesson plans and high quality worksheets and activities,
  • Video guides to each module,
  • External links to further study and resources,
  • Video demonstrations of lessons.

Program format

Language Arts with Lyn Stone is offered as a six-part on-demand online Open Learning course.
The content is intended to be easily digested over about 18 hours; three for each key topic. Because it is on-demand and not live, how much time it takes will vary depending on individual circumstances. To provide maximum flexibility, once you have logged on for the first time, your access to the course will be granted for six months. That’s half a year to make your way through each topic, try out the lessons and really digest the material.

It will also give you the opportunity to interact with our ever-growing community of international professionals also making their way through the course.

The downloadable manual, scripts, worksheets and slides are, of course, yours to keep forever!
We will be monitoring all the forums, answering questions, delivering feedback and uploading our latest resource findings in real time from the very beginning. You will not be alone.
We will also be offering additional live tutorials via Zoom on an intermittent basis. These will be open to the public and will incur a fee, but those enrolled on the course are invited to attend at no cost.