Teaching Dyslexics and struggling readers to read through structured literacy (SL)

 Dates:            Tuesday 1^st – Saturday 5^th July 2025

Time:             9.30am – 2.00pm

Facilitator:    Mary Moran

Venue:            Tullamore Educate Together N.S. , Collins Lane, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. R35AX22

Participants who complete this course will gain the skills to teach reading through structured literacy to individuals, small groups, and entire classes. They will also become proficient in teaching children to spell by following structured methods and adhering to spelling rules. Additionally, they will be able to collaborate effectively with colleagues and contribute to the development and implementation of comprehensive school-wide literacy strategies. Most importantly, they will be equipped to teach severely dyslexic children how to read and spell.

Mary Moran has dedicated nearly four decades to working with struggling readers. Trained in Orton Gillingham in the eighties, she has been teaching both privately and on contract in schools, utilising structured literacy. She has developed her own unique structured literacy programme, the DcodeDyslexia programme, which incorporates the approaches and methods she has successfully used in her private practice as a dyslexia tutor.

Course is approved for 3 EPV Days.