The 4-Step Process
COURSE INFORMATION
- By the end of the course you should be able to use the 4-Step Process to study words with students at all ages and stages of their literacy development.
- The course contains a video, recorded from some of our live webinars. Watch the video and follow along with your handout.
- At the end, you will be asked to share an example of one of the words you’ve chosen to study.
Books
Lyn has written three books on the subject of literacy and language, supported by online courses too. The links below will take you to each book.
Course Content
The 4-Step Process Video
The 4-Step Process Practical
The 4-Step Process Feedback
Options for Further Study
Mentoring
Hi, my name is Laura, I work as a learning and support teacher at a primary school, and also a private tutor. I wanted to do this course to develop my understanding of word study, and learn how to use the 4 Step Process tool.
Hi, my name is Sarah. I am a special education teacher working in a support unit in a mainstream high school. I teach a class for students in years 7 – 10 with mild intellectual disabilities. The majority of my students are low-progress readers so I spend a lot of time working on phonics, phonemic awareness, reading and spelling with my younger students. I’d like to learn some strategies for teaching my students more challenging words. This is particularly important for my older students who are getting ready for TAFE/work experience and need to learn more complex content vocabulary.
Welcome! I think you might be in the right place, Sarah!
Hi my name is Kirsty and I work at a state school in Queensland, grade 3. A colleague of mine has completed this course and was discussing it with me. I found it very interesting and would love to learn more about it to help my students in relation to word study skills.
I hope you find it useful, Kirsty!
Hi I’m Lauren and I work at a large primary school as the head of teaching and learning. I am looking for ways to develop, both my own and teacher knowledge around using word studies to support literacy development across the school.
Great to have you here, Lauren!
Hi Lyn! I am a mother of a 5yo and 6yo girls. I am a registered nurse in NZ. I am passionate about teaching my own kids how to read and write. I also am a parent volunteer in the school where they are enrolled. I am hungry for resources and strategies that are effective and efficient at delivering reading instructions to our primary pupils. I am here to learn more.
Hi, my name is Karen and I have a somewhat different background to most people.
I am a Secondary trained teacher (Japanese and ICT) but I have spent the last 13 years as a Training Systems Officer in the Navy. In what little spare time I have, I also work as a private tutor with two primary school aged siblings and an adult member of the Navy with dyslexia. I’ve also done other specialist training in phonemic awareness and dyslexia support.
This course will be useful in both my private practice, my current Navy project and my Doctor of Education (commencing 2023) where my focus will likely be on how we can improve the delivery of ESL and basic adult literacy education,
What an interesting job, Karen! I’ll look forward to seeing how you find the course!
Hi, I’m very confused as I thought I’d done this online face to face, but it seems there’s another element to it. I’m a full time tutor online, some face to face, and at a YMCA vocational school. This should be very useful and I’ve used it already – but am very confused about whether I need to do it again (as the account says I haven’t done it). Also as to how I get into my Egypt pack as previously offered to participants. Could someone please advise. Thank you.
Hi, I’m Louise. Full time tutor for children in junior-middle primary with literacy difficulties. I am loving everything I am learning from Lifelong Literacy, both via books and online training. Looking forward to consolidating what I learned in the face to face session.
Hope you find it useful, Louise!
Hi, I’m a tutor full time as waaaay too old for a classroom! However, as a psychologist originally I prefer tutoring anyway as you can teach them what and how they require, not what and how the classroom situation and curriculum demand. I have done this course on the original course ‘live’ on 5th May, so am a little confused as to why we are doing it again. Never mind, I’m sure to get more ideas the second time round.
Hello. My name is Bridget. I am a reading specialist and dyslexia interventionist. I provide reading intervention in a public school in Southern California. I want to build my capacity. I attended your webinar on morphemes at 2am this morning.
Oh my gosh, Bridget! I am very impressed with your thirst for knowledge. I do hope you enjoy this course!
Curator/ Docent of an in-school ‘resource room’ designed to provide academic enrichment and remediation for K-8.
Background includes various OG programs and Word Inquiry approach.
Good to have you here, Paola. I’d be interested in your views on the content.
Hi! I’m Bern. I moved from Williamstown to Bendig in January 2021 and hopefully in our new home in November. I was on LSL during 2021 and now do CRT work in Bendigo on an average of 2 days a week and tutor two students online voluntarily. Online is a real challenge.!!!!!!!! Literacy has been my passion for years. During the last 10 years of teaching, I was Literacy Leader and oversaw NCCD. I have been very concerned for years that we have not been able to effectively and strategically support those students struggling with Literacy. I knew/felt that balanced literacy was what they needed. I did a course through Reading Simplified (came across it on FB) online which led me on my current manic journey to learn more about effective strategic evidence-based instruction and how students learn best. I have done so much – not all of it has however found its way to my long-term memory 🙂 but just can’t seem to get enough. I also love sharing my knowledge and resources with others. My biggest disappointment is the fact that so many still resist change! Any way, looking forward to another learning opportunity.
I’ve been loving our interactions, Bern and am glad to know more about you. Hope you enjoy the course!
I enrolled in this course about 2 weeks ago and have not yet received a link for it.
Can you please re-send the link?
Thanks
Sue Vincent
I trust my office manager has taken care of this now for you.
Hi, I’m a teacher working as a tutor within the Tutor Learning Initiative at a state primary school. I’m looking for strategies that will build on basic GPC acquisition with my students in the middle years of primary.
How have you found it so far, Malena?
I support literacy improvement and am eager to learn more of your approach after reading your book.
Hi Gaynor,
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the course!
Lyn
Hello! It is Brooke Loader from Red Hill Consolidated School in Grade 3. I am developing my knowledge around using word studies to support literacy development in my classroom. I have just completed the course. Thank you!
Wow! You’re fast, Brooke! Glad you were able to access it and I do hope it helps!
Hi Lyn, I’m Alex and I live in Adelaide. I am a Primary school teacher and have been teaching remotely in the NT for the last 2 years working with Indigenous students. I am keen to improve my knowledge and understanding of literacy development.
Kia ora from NZ Lyn, I use this four-step process often with my private students, and have started showing some of the teachers I work with in my RTLit job how to use it with their students, will let you know how this works. I don’t think it will take me too long to go through the course – Thankyou
I’m looking forward to learning about the four step process prior to commencing tutoring with you!
I’m a parent of a dyslexic 13yo. I homeschooled him from Year 2-5 using structured literacy (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, morphology, vocabulary etc) and ever since then I’ve continued my interest in learning about literacy. My son is back in school but his spelling and writing are still significantly behind. When I heard about the 4 step process project I decided to sign up to help out.
I’m so happy to see you here, Rosalind. Will get the project underway very soon!
Hi I am Kim
I have been watching Christianne work with the 4 Step Process and I really like the model because it encapsulates the upper strands of Scarborough’s ‘Reading Rope’ such as language comprehension, and background knowledge, vocabulary, some language structure and verbal reasoning,.
Great insight, Kim!