
SPELL-Links Intervention and Training Products
SPELL-Links / Learning By Design, Inc.
SPELL-Links™ intervention and training resources are products for struggling readers and suitable for students with dyslexia. The SPELL-Links products use a speech-to-print word study approach that leverages the brain's innate, biological wiring and organization for oral language combined with multi-linguistic and meta-linguistic instruction. See our Guidance on using these resources remotely.SPELL-Links The Language of Reading and Spelling Part 2: Phonology On Demand 2 Hours
A103000369532
Qualification Level
This 2-hour session is designed for SPELL-Links users to gain foundational knowledge and skills in phonology for successful implementation of SPELL-Links. Participants will have access to this course for one year.
Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. On-demand training is accessed via a welcome email sent to the email address associated with the order.
Audience: This session is targeted to K-12 educators, language and literacy specialists, and administrators.
Course description: This 2-hour session is designed for SPELL-Links users to gain foundational knowledge and skills in phonology for successful implementation of SPELL-Links. Participants will have access to this course for one year.
Learning objectives: After attending this session, particpants will be able to:
- Define and explain the differences between phones, allophones, phonemes, phonics, phonetics, phonological representations, phonological processing, phonological awareness, and phonemic awareness; explain the role of each in the development of reading and spelling.
- Differentiate between the knowledge teachers of reading and spelling need to have to be effective instructors vs. what needs to be taught to students.
- Describe the process and development of categorical perception of speech sounds; explain the implications of atypical categorical perception in students with dyslexia; explain why ELL students struggle with discrimination of English phonemes and consequently struggle with learning to read and write in English.
- Analyze and correctly describe the phonological structures of English words: phonemes, syllables, onset-rhymes, lexical stress.
- Identify which PA skills are needed for learning to read and spell and explain reasons for and for not teaching PA skills in isolation.
- Describe how to correctly model and teach the segmenting and blending phonemes and syllables in English words.
- Describe at least two activities for the development of phonological awareness skills

