Payne Education Center’s Language to the 4th Power

Course Description: Language to the 4th Power (L4) is a four-day OSDE approved Structured Literacy training. The curriculum is designed to assist the teachers of students in grades 4-6 and/or 7-8 in the instruction of the structure, origin, and use of the English language. This course in Language to the 4th Power (L4) is comprised of Morphology, Spelling, Grammar & Comprehension and Reading Comprehension. This course in L4 will enable comprehensive language instruction in the regular classroom while allowing teachers to access and teach students the understanding of how the English language works and can be used. Teachers who attend L4 are able to access a support page on the Payne Education Center website that is full of helpful curriculum resources and supplemental materials.

Objectives: At the end of this course, trained educators will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the foundational concepts involved in understanding how the English language works and can be applied.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the structure, origin and use of the English language, including Morphology, Spelling, Grammar/Composition, and Reading Comprehension.

• Demonstrate the ability to teach the origin, meanings and usage of word parts, to teach students to be able to use these morphological elements to spell words, the structure of grammar as it leads to composition, and how to apply these in vocabulary to build reading comprehension.

• Demonstrate the ability to teach how morphological elements can be applied to comprehension in other curricular areas such as social studies, science and math.

Delivery: Face to Face with formal observations

Hours: 32