The MLL Workshop I Always Wanted: Colourful Semantics+Widgit+ThinkSRSD

This workshop has no fluff. It just introduces 3 powerful language scaffolding tools. “Colourful Semantics” for understanding language and creating sentences. “Widgit Online” for print accessibility and vocabulary development. “Think SRSD” as a research- and evidence-based writing framework. You will be able to see their value independently, as they are often introduced. But I will also show you how they can be used in combination to create a literacy development tool that benefits all language learners, no matter where they are on their language acquisition journey. Attendees will be able to 1) see how they could easily implement these scaffolds immediately with common classroom resources to 2) to recognize subscription programs that they could propose their school invest in for literacy development.

Presenter

Traci Rapp

Y3 EAL Teacher
YCIS Shanghai Puxi

Traci Rapp, also known as Mrs. Wundherful to her Y3 students, hails from the Midwest of the USA. She has taught for over 17 years in public and international schools across China. While she has extensive knowledge of play and interest-based early childhood education, her greatest passions are about lower primary literacy and English language acquisition across content areas. She holds her Masters of Education in Literacy and enjoys refining the phonics program "UFLI Foundations" and the writing framework "Think SRSD" to meet the needs of multilingual, international students.