Sunday 20 October 2024

NEW: A Year in Words

 Welcome to our newest field guide, A Year in Words - orchestrating the learning.

NEWEST field guide: A YEAR IN WORDS - ORCHESTRATING THE LEARNING
Photo: B. Polain, 2024

A Year in Words - orchestrating the learning invites you to step inside the early years classroom from the beginning of the school year. This recent book is a culmination of our extensive teaching experience and is based on the twenty years of teaching orthography in our classrooms. 

A Year in Words - orchestrating the learning isn’t just informative, it’s a pleasure to hold and to look at. Printed on gloss paper, its 80 pages are lavishly illustrated with artworks, and annotated diagrams and photos of word investigations in the classroom. Elegant and eclectic, our field guides are dedicated to the art of teaching and the power of words. 

The entire series of A Field Guide to Words, are beautifully produced booklets that are thought-provoking and practical for both word lovers and teachers. 

Words are the essence of thought and communication. By shining a light on the orthography of the English language embedded in the classroom learning, we learn to read texts deeply and to write purposefully.

A glimpse inside A Year in Words - orchestrating the learning.

Special thanks to: photographer, Brendan Polain, editor, Kezia Whiting, printer, Denni from Print it Fast.

Please head to the FIELD GUIDES STORE TO ORDER.

Ann & Lyn

Caught in the Spell of Words



Saturday 18 June 2022

Beneath and Beyond the Surface of Words

Classroom orthographic investigations are planned and embedded in learning throughout the day to unfold the order, sense and meaning beneath the surface.


Read Lyn & Ann's latest Caught in the Spell of Words post to discover more by stepping into the classroom for a glimpse of how orthographic investigations unfold for all students.

There are some surprising discoveries!

Friday 11 December 2020

FIELD GUIDE TO WORDS

A Field Guide to Words:                    Enlightening, Eclectic, Entertaining

With lavender and poppies abounding in our garden it's time to come out and PLAY after the restrictions of winter and the pandemic, to delight in the extraordinary, the hidden stories, the wonders of a word’s past and present. 


These Field Guides are the ideal companion for teachers and logophiles. 

The writers, two educators, share their passion for orthographic linguistics to celebrate the sense and order of English orthography.

With these guides in your hand, you and your students will be inspired to investigate and marvel at the richness of the English language. 


Lyn & Ann's latest Field Guide to Words: PLAY highlights:


- the written orthographic statement with teacher dialogue 


- Chancery script as the foundation for all orthographic study


- an annotated matrix 


- how to read an etymology entry


- compounds


- a key phonological investigation.


A Field Guide to Words goes beyond and beneath the surface to uncover the unity and interrelationship of the 3 components of orthography: morphology, etymology and phonology.




A reissue of SERIES 1 (a set of 4 booklets) is now available:


Cycles

Transformation & Metamorphosis 

Adaptation

Play


Please head to the FIELD GUIDE STORE to purchase.