We’ve been hard at work sprucing up the Tier 2 resources to hopefully make intervention sessions easier to teach.
All Tier 2 resources can be found on the website homepage by clicking on the ‘Tier 2 Resources’ button. (See example below).
The biggest change to the Tier 2 Program is that it no longer mirrors the Tier 1 Scope and Sequence exactly. Instead, the Tier 2 Program has been streamlined so that it goes from Lesson 1 – Lesson 158. There are still two lessons for every teaching point, but this streamlined sequence allows for students to ‘catch-up’ to their class, rather than continually lag behind.
We have also added a Placement Test for the Tier 2 Program, so support staff will be able to test and group students more effectively.
Our amazing Graphic Designer, Tiffany Stewart, has helped redesign the layout of the resources, so they are clear and easy to follow. The Tier 2 Teacher Manual is divided into 4 books. All content for each lesson is printed clearly in the Teacher Manuals. Where necessary, short scripting has been included for less experienced support staff.
We have added extra spaced assessments to the Tier 2 Program for all lessons. These have been included in the Teacher Manuals. We have added a Review Lesson for each lesson for extra revision when testing shows more practice is required.
The Tier 2 Student Sheets have also been up-dated and look amazing!
The Student Manual includes all words, connected text and dictation required for students to read from in each lesson.
All manuals have page numbers, lesson numbers and content pages to make it easy to find what you are looking for.
We have made some changes to the platform to simplify things. The documents you use often are now less clicks away.
Tier 2 resources are now directly accessible from the main red buttons on the homepage (see above).
The old search function (where you used to find Tier 1 and 2 resources) is now dedicated to Tier 1 resources only (see below).
We’ve made scope and sequence documents, weekly planners, connected texts and worksheets directly available within the phase pages to save you time (see below).
All of our phase spreadsheets have been updated and uploaded. Thanks to Travis and Jodie at Progress Educational Consulting for their help with this.
You will now find spelling, decoding, and heart word test data all together on one spreadsheet under different tabs.
All Playberry Laser account admins should check their sub-accounts and delete any staff who are no longer at their school. Not doing this could see you run out of available accounts.
Join David Morkunas as he unpacks the tools and techniques that have been used to help hundreds of students succeed in Maths. Participants will understand the research that underpins effective Maths teaching, practice techniques for teaching fundamental skills and learn how to plan effective lessons and daily reviews. David is known throughout Australia as offering practical advice that teachers can implement immediately, and this workshop will be no exception. David will also share information about EMP (Explicit Maths Program).
All participants MUST bring a student whiteboard and marker.
Date: February 17, 2025
Times: 08:45 a.m. – 03:30 p.m.
Venue: Brighton Sports and Social Club, Highet Avenue, HOVE
Price: $220 exc GST
Contact Christie, Linda or Bill and ask for the code to receive a discount on registration. This will bring the price down to $198 (exc. GST) per person. Flick us an email or text message for the code that you can apply at the checkout.
If your school wants to use Dave’s, Ollie Lovell’s and Toni Hatton-Roberts’ EMP program, the EMP team have kindly offered Playberry Laser subscriber schools a 10% discount on student resources. We will provide more information at the training.
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In this edition:
Tier 2 resources facelift, Changes to the platform, Updated phase spreadsheets and assessments, Explicit Maths training with Dave Morkunas.
In this edition:
Assessment: There’s tests and then there’s tests! …
The difference between assessing reading and spelling…
New Assessments on the platform…
Pure sounds are crucial to forming accurate mental representations of speech sounds (phonemes). Most of us have taught from programs that are a little sloppy on phoneme pronunciation and have formed not-so-great pronunciations. This video covers some of the trickier phonemes and their pronunciations in Playberry Laser T1-2. Some schools use this video in staff meetings to get sounds pure and have a good laugh at each other! Some teachers show this to students, and some even send it home to parents.
In this edition:
Additive Blending in Phase 1 …
Teaching Heart Words Well …
2025 Training Dates …
Phase 0 Has Lift-Off! …
Lesson Videos ….
We Have a How-to Section
Watch Bill Teach a Tier 2 intervention Group Lesson.
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