Strategic Reading & Productive Feedback Through Narrative Skills In this comprehensive workshop, geared for educators in grades 2 - 8, you will learn the necessary instructional tools to support deeper literary analysis and comprehension, confidently teach narrative writing and be empowered to provide specific actionable feedback when assessing student work. You will see the clear connection between understanding foundational writing skills to effectively responding to text. Reading with Author’s Eyes for Deeper Understanding: • Instructional Methodology • Genre and Organization • Annotation and Analysis • Narrative Skills - Entertaining Beginnings
Informational/Expository Skills - Strategic Reading & Productive Feedback In this comprehensive workshop, geared for educators in grades 2 - 8, you will learn the necessary instructional tools to support text analysis and comprehension, confidently teach informational and opinion writing and be empowered to provide specific actionable feedback when assessing student work. You will see the clear connection between understanding foundational writing skills to effectively responding to text. Reading with Author’s Eyes for Deeper Understanding:
• Instructional Methodology • Genre and Organization • Annotation and Analysis • Informational Skills - Introduce Foundational Skills: • Broad Yet Distinct Main Ideas • Detail Generating Questions • Word Referents • Research • Introductions and Conclusions • Authentic Writing Tasks and Rubrics Recorded Bonus: Applying Text Analysis to Constructed Response (available for virtual attendees only)
Foundational Skills: • Elaborative Detail • What do Feelings Look Like? • Suspense • Main Event • Extended Endings • Process Writing and Rubrics
Recorded Bonus: Applying Text Analysis to Constructed Response (available for virtual attendees only)
Editing & Revising Workshop Empowering Writers will provide the “how” for delivering direct instruction in revising and editing. Take the mystery out of grammar, mechanics, and spelling by attending this action-packed training. Come away with so much more than just “skill and drill!” This workshop is geared for any teacher responsible for teaching editing and revising with a focus on grades 3 & 4. (Grade 7 teachers are welcome but skill coverage is limited.) Participants will: • Understand the parts of speech and how they are truly the building blocks of language! • Learn effective strategies for revising run-on sentences, eliminating redundant ideas, and using transition words and phrases! • Explore hands-on-activities designed to make learning grammar fun! • Apply editing (grammar) and revising skills to composition writing in ways that make it come to life! • Take away powerful test-taking strategies that produce savvy test-takers! • Simplify spelling to guarantee student SUCCESS! • Learn how to plan and pace instruction across the school year. 14
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