The High Frequency Word Project has been an invaluable resource for all of us seeking to teach orthography in a more meaningful way.

Rebecca Loveless and Fiona Hamilton have continued to build and expand their resource with their second edition book (it's amazing), and now they are offering a sixth study booklet with all new words! 

This booklet has 28 new words and 4 pages for every one of the words. It is being offered at an excellent pre-order discount price until Sept 15th. 

The amazing Kelly Young and Peg Hollenbeck, of LILiteracy, are going to be offering their grammar courses again this January. I have studied with Kelly and Peg before and I would recommend taking ANY class they offer. They both have a profound knowledge of English orthography and grammar and years of experience teaching struggling students. 

They are offering their Everyday Grammar course in January followed by their Everyday Grammar PLUS class. So you'll have the opportunity to really dig deeply into this important topic.

Jennifer Petrich and Brad Johnson, of The Literacy Dr, are offering their class Connecting the DOTS again. If you're relatively new to SWI, or you want to brush up on the core concepts and skills, this an excellent course. Jennifer and Brad have a deep knowledge of both English orthography and how to teach it, so you'll come away with a lot of practical tools for your teaching.

Sara Lee, also from The Literacy Dr, is going to be offering her Introduction to Grammar course. I haven't been lucky enough to study with Sara yet, but I've heard nothing but rave reviews about her classes. 

Notch has dyslexia! I didn't know that and chances are your students don't know it either. But they'll probably know who Notch is, because he created Minecraft. 

Emily Gibbons has created a little mini-reader all about Markus Persson (aka Notch) that you can download and print for your students. If your students are like mine, they're always keen to talk about Minecraft and this book could open a whole different area of discussion.