Thrive Teach Nurture Grow Inc.

What is the Talk for Writing Program?

The Talk for Writing process supports students with confirmed, or imputed, language-based dysgraphia. It may also be effective for students with other learning disorders, difficulties or differences.

Talk for Writing is a unique process that uses spoken activities to develop writing skills.

Quality writing is created by first expanding and developing students’ oral language skills and then teaching the necessary steps for exceptional sentence, paragraph, and text construction.

In Talk for Writing, the process of “Imitation – Innovation – Invention” is explored. Students learn to orally recite and act out popular stories through listening and reading.

Imitation

Imitation – students learn, by heart, a model text that provides them with an embedded model of the target language patterns and text structure

Innovation

Innovation – students adapt the well-known model to create a new version, recycling and reapplying the language patterns and structure

Independent Application/Invention

Independent Application/ Invention – students draw upon what they have learnt when producing new texts

Please see the following link for further information:

https://www.talk4writing.com/about/

Educational Therapy - Individual

Educational Therapy sessions are specifically tailored to your child's individual needs and educators use ongoing assessment to continually provide the most effective and individual lessons possible.

Our Educational Therapists:

- plan, implement and evaluate your child’s individual Talk for Writing (TfW) therapy

- provide additional home activities, including vocabulary words and story maps.

- coordinate reasonable adjustments for your child in the classroom

- provide support for any social/emotional considerations

- use functional assessments to guide their lesson planning

- provide Semester Goals & Annual Reports

- provide Assistive Technology training, if needed.

Educational Therapy - High School Small Group

This Tier 2 Support Program has been specifically designed to assist high school students with necessary explanation and essay-writing skills. This program provides for only four students who attend two hours per week, for twenty weeks.

Students are also supported to use assistive technologies throughout this program.

When: Monday & Tuesday mornings, 8 – 8: 50 am. Terms 3 and 4, each year.

Limited places are available each year. We are taking bookings now for next year's small group.