WELCOME TO LIFELONG LITERACY

We bring high quality, research-supported
literacy instruction to schools, educators,
and families.

COURSES

Our suite of online and face to face courses will help build teacher and educator capacity for individuals and whole school teams.

BOOKS &
RESOURCES

Discover Lyn Stone’s flagship books as well as a range of low-cost and free resources to help educators gain insight into the writing system.

SPEAKING & CONSULTING

Find out how to book Lyn Stone for speaking engagements or for school consulting.

TUTORING

Lifelong Literacy is a busy tutoring practice that prides itself on a low-variance, high quality approach to literacy intervention.

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Lifelong Literacy - Bringing linguistics to teaching

Our mission is to help bridge gaps in education:
Bridging gaps from research to practice with research-informed publications, resources and presentations
Bridging gaps in teacher knowledge with training and mentoring
Bridging gaps in learning and academic achievement with top quality tutoring

WE’RE GLAD YOU’RE HERE

WHAT’S NEW

Spelling for Life:
THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO TEACHING SPELLING

This new and improved edition includes updated spelling techniques as well as new chapters on orthographic mapping, spelling assessment, teaching consonant clusters well and suffixing rules.

Includes a K-6 scope and sequence.

The accompanying online course is popular with educators worldwide.

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WHAT’S NEXT

New zealand reading and spelling for life tour - right after the inaugural sharing best practice aotearoa!

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OUR COURSES

We offer a variety of courses both in-person and online for educators wishing to improve their practice.

Courses range in size from the 18-hour Language Arts course, to the 2 hour mini-courses.

READING
FOR
LIFE

Online Course

SPELLING
FOR
Life

Online Course

Writing
FOR
Life

Online Course

language
FOR
Life

Online Course

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About

Meet Lyn Stone, Author,
Educator…

Hi, I’m Lyn. Founder and creator of Lifelong Literacy. We offer free videos, low-cost online courses, books about literacy for parents and teachers, a literacy blog and a wealth of resources to help you in your journey toward lifelong literacy for all. I am a linguist in private practice, author, education consultant, mother of diverse learners, and a dyslexia advocate.
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THE BOOK SERIES

Lyn Stone has written three books, published by Routledge Education. They
are available through all major online retailers, including Barnes and Noble,
Amazon, Book Depository or on the Routledge author page.

Spelling for life

There is a myth that English spelling is unnecessarily complex. It is spread by those who don’t understand the writing system. Spelling for Life offers lucid, accessible tools which help to reveal that, when explicitly and systematically taught,
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Reading for life

Why is it that so many people can't read and write? Why are there still so many vastly different methods of teaching literacy? Why do people still argue about it? Reading for Life examines these three questions, addressing the less evi...
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language for life

We all recognize how important first impressions are, something often formed by how well we speak and write. Language for Life shows how language can be mastered by children and how what they have learned can be carried throughout their lives.
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WORK WITH LYN

School
Consultations

Lyn Stone has written three books, published by Routledge Education. They are available through all major online retailers, including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Book Depository or on the Routledge author page.

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DON’T MISS OUT

FREE, HELPFUL
video series

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