Events

We are extending an invitation to all Consultant members to join us for this free webinar. Dianne Dawson will provide members with information on the NCCD, how it should work in schools and how we can be best positioned to advocate for our students and families. Date: 08/02/2023 Time: 7:30pm to 9pm Cost: Free Registration: Open to Consultant Members Only, registration link has been emailed directly to Consultant Members. Please check your junk folder or email consultant.enquiries@ldaustralia.org if you have not received the email or need more information.

  Learn how to seamlessly link your spelling lesson with your writing lesson using an explicit, systematic, and sequential approach.  This will strengthen your evidence-based practice: student learning is enhanced by linking all components of a structured literacy lesson.  We will practise this process by learning about adjectives as they are an easy entry point for practitioners and students alike to discover how one word may change the entire meaning, power and understanding of a sentence. Do not be fooled by their seeming simplicity! Discover the eight categories of adjectives: objective, subjective, co-ordinating, non-coordinating, comparative, superlative, irregular and non-comparative and how they will impact a writing lesson as well as a reading lesson. Learn how to explicitly instruct, use, and place different kinds of adjectives to help your students craft sentences for compelling effect.

Louise Selby will leave you feeling inspired with all the tools you need to teach morphology within the classroom or 1:1 sessions. Louise is the author of Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary. She will demonstrate using the Morphological Awareness Assessment and will go through a range of practical activities and templates to support your teaching. This training is provided over two sessions. Date: Wed 15th & Wed 22nd March, 2023 Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Cost:  Non-Member: $85LDA Member: $75LDA Student Member: $45

We are thrilled to be having another face to face event at the Treacy Centre in Melbourne. This event will be partially funded by an annual bequest from the family of Anne Barton, one of our highly esteemed and much-missed Consultants who died in 2020.  Some of the topics covered on the day will include:  Early numeracy competencies and mathematical languageAutomaticity Numeracy in Everyday Life for Secondary School Students Another highlight of the day is the donation of Anne's teaching resources which will be available for viewing and collection on the day. Please bring a bag if you wish to take some of these resources. Date: Sunday 2nd April, 2023 Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm Cost: Non-Member: $130LDA Member: $90LDA Student Member: $70 Catering: Morning tea and lunch will be provided.