Core Programs and Supplemental and Digital Resources (continued)
Trait Crate Plus—A Deeper Dive: Thinking Outside the Crate
This session provides a more in-depth look into Trait Crate Plus . We’ll review the best-selling book The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing by Ruth Culham to build your knowledge of the traits and their key qualities. We’ll also explore how to design lessons and select mentor texts that inspire incisive student writing. Learning outcomes: • Identify the writing traits in the mentor texts that you bring to the session • Define the narrative, informational, and opinion modes of writing in your mentor texts • Understand the components of a successful writing lesson • Develop trait- and mode-specific lesson plans inspired by the mentor texts from your classroom libraries
Recommended for: K–8 teachers Time: Three hours Item #s: In-Person: 660831 Virtual: 743472 Participants: Up to 30 Requires the purchase of Trait Crate Plus
Conventions and Craft: Initial Learning
Conventions and Craft is a full year of micro-workshops that builds an essential understanding of grammar, sentence structure, and word study. In this session we’ll practice a five-day routine embedded in the program and explore the components of Conventions and Craft, the role that conventions play in writing instruction, and what the first week of instruction will look like. Learning outcomes: • Name ways to recast conventions as tools for raising the quality of writing • Craft a four-to-six week schedule for implementing the program • Deliver a Conventions and Craft lesson • Develop lesson plans based on assessment finding
Recommended for: K–5 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In-Person: 675602 Virtual: 743473 Participants: Up to 30 Requires the purchase of Conventions and Craft
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