Monday, June 23
Connecting Assessment to Instruction:
Assessment Safari, A Guided Tour
Monday
June 23 and Tuesday June 24
Meaghan
McCormick and
Pam Woodhurst
Adventure with us, as we travel off the beaten path of worn
out assessments. Your expedition will include a discovery of purposeful
assessments for reading and writing. This journey will also include
instructional techniques and practical examples for your unique classroom.
Genre Units for Special
Education and Struggling Students
Monday, June 23 - 8:30-3:00
Grade
4 and 5
Catherine
Walle and Dr. Patricia Hartwig, Presenters
Walk away with four complete narrative genre
units adapted for students who are below grade level. Participants will receive scripted lessons
for reading and writing instruction, genre posters, comprehension strategies,
and engaging activities to win over reluctant readers. As an added bonus, participants will receive
six books of quality literature to implement the lessons.
Preschool & Childcare Provider Literacy
Training
Monday,
June 23, 2008
Brenda
Davis and Asa Fleming, Presenters
The
morning session will address Oral Language and the afternoon session will be
Phonological Awareness.
“I’m Talking…but Are You
Listening???”
Learn
to enhance the development of reading and writing using a variety of oral language activities
which allow all children to engage in receptive and expressive language. Oral Language is the foundation of all
literacy skills..
Learn what oral language skills children need to learn and what kinds of
experiences to provide in this lively and interactive workshop.
“Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Children
must be able to hear the smallest sound in words in order to learn to
read. Come join the fun and learn how to
teach “phonemic awareness”, (the ability to hear sounds in words) through
games, poems, songs, and finger plays.
Using Children’s Books to Support Writing
Monday,
June 23
Grades
2-5
Carol
Stockwell, presenter
Do you love to share a good book? Would you like to expand your knowledge of books and how to use them to increase your students’ literacy learning? Just as students in the classroom, participants will be writing from their own experiences that relate to the books that will be shared. Including some old favorites and recently published books will be shared for new classroom ideas. Participants are encouraged to bring a favorite book they use in their classroom to share with the class. Come join us for a literacy adventure that is sure to delight you and broaden your horizons.
Enhancing Comprehension
through Classroom Discussion
Monday,
June 23
Grades 2-5
Jan Rickard, presenter
Are you looking for strategies for engaging All students in
higher-level thinking skills across the content area? Participants will be considering ways to:
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prepare for discussions by organizing groups and tailoring
questions,
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facilitate discussions so students are engaged and take ownership,
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follow-up discussions by making meaningful connections, and
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assess to determine if discussions are making a
difference.
Conducting Workshops for
Pre-K-2 Parents
Monday, June 23
Pre K -2 Grade
Barbara L. Jaszcz, Language Arts Consultant,
Presenter
Make-It,Take-It workshops increase a
parent’s ability to support a child’s success in reading, writing and
math. Participants will learn steps
involved in planning and conducting parent workshops starting with initial
planning, “getting it out there” and ending with parent projects. Participants will walk away with a basic plan
and examples of hands-on projects for parents.
Tuesday,
June 24
Genre Units for Special Education and
Struggling Students Grades 2 and 3
Tuesday, June 24 - 8:30-3:00
Catherine
Walle and Dr. Patricia Hartwig
Walk away with four complete narrative genre units
adapted for students who are below grade level.
Participants will receive scripted lessons for reading and writing
instruction, genre posters,
comprehension strategies, and engaging activities to win over
reluctant readers. As an added bonus,
participants will receive six booksof quality literature to implement the lessons.
Literacy Work Stations Grades K-2
Grades K-2
Tuesday, June 24
Put on your safari hat and be prepared to
explore how fun and simple literacy learning can be! Spend the day surrounded
by interactive, hands-on literacy learning using proven techniques and
strategies. Learn new twists on old ideas as well as an abundance of new, fresh
activities. Make-and-takes and tons of fun await you as you experience how
amazing the jungle of literacy can be! You’ll emerge from this adventure as the
king, or queen, of the literacy jungle!
The
literacy buzz is on. Spend the day learning about different literacy
workstations and activities you can use in your classroom. We will be
breaking into small groups to discuss and share valuable independent activities
you can take back to your classroom and make your own. We will be using Literacy
Workstations, by Debbie Diller to guide our
discussion.
Making the Most of Calkins
Writing Grades 3-5 2 Days
Tuesday, June 24 and Wednesday, June 25
Presenters Sandy White and Mary Groom
Using
the Lucy Calkins
Units of Study for Grades 3-5, learn
how the structure of your Writer’s Workshop can help students to become
successful writers. The Units of Study
are designed for student success, not just today—on this assignment—but everyday on every assignment. Learn ways to help students to see themselves
as “writers” with the skills to not only begin writing but to keep working even
when they get stuck. Additional Cost required to purchase the Units of Study ($159.00)
Digital
Story Telling Grades 4-8
Tuesday, June 24
Jim Dornberg,
presenter
Computers, digital
cameras, scanners, and camcorders have made it possible for teachers and students
in all grades to create and preserve their own personal stories, and to share
those stories with a worldwide audience. Using Microsoft´s
FREE Photo Story 3 software, teachers in this workshop will learn how to add a
musical soundtrack and narration to their visual imagery to create a compelling
digital story. Learn about the essential elements for digital storytelling and
see examples. Resources for online
music, clip art and photos will be shared.
Participants will also learn how to use PowerPoint to create title
slides and to edit photos. At the
conclusion of the workshop, participants will share their completed digital
stories on a blog.
Supporting Adolescent Readers
(audience 4 – 5)
Tuesday, June 24
Wanda Killips, presenter
An introduction to Reading Apprenticeship. Teachers will learn about strategies and
classroom practices that support adolescent readers as they become agents of
their own learning. Emphasis will be on metacognition, modeling and scaffolding instruction.
Wednesday, June 25
Literacy Circles (audience – 3 – 5)
Wednesday, June 25
Wanda Killips, presenter
Using
Getting Started with Literature Circles
by Noe and Johnson, teachers will jigsaw the book and
share their knowledge with others in the group.
Teachers will walk away with great ideas on climate, structure, books,
discussions, journals and focus questions that allow students to take charge of
their own learning with literacy circles.
Wednesday,
June 25
Anne Deneroff & Claudia Gaynier
This workshop will focus on comprehension
strategies used by proficient readers, helping students to monitor for
understanding, model and practice using comprehension strategies including:
making connection, asking questions, creating visual images, making inference
determining importance and synthesizing information.
The afternoon session will closely examine
assessing comprehension classroom practices that support the acquisition of
comprehension strategies and resources with “kid appeal” for teaching
strategies
Preschool – Parent / Child
Interactions
Wednesday
June 25
Amy
Fesler & Kate Capion
The
focus of this session is to show preschool teachers how to make an impact on
parent-child interactions in math, literacy and science development.
Participants will leave this session with examples of activities that will be
included in a handbook on home learning and parent involvement. Explanation,
demonstration and application of these activities will take place during this session.
First Ten Days of
Wednesday, June 25 - 8:30-3:00
Catherine
Walle and Dr. Patricia Hartwig
The First Ten Days is a series of scripted
lessons that prepare students for the variety of reading and writing tasks included
in the ELA MEAP. The ten day lesson
plans feature strategy review, use of graphic organizers, and activities to
rehearse test-taking techniques.
Acclimating students to the demands of the task enhances their
performance and reduces anxiety. Released items and prototypes of 5th
and 6th grade items will highlighted.
Brain Research
Wednesday,
June 25
Julie
Ross, presenter
Did
you know we’ve learned more about the brain in the last ten to fifteen years
than we learned in the 100 years before that combined? Understanding how the brain really learns can
help us understand how the brain learns to read and write (or why it may
struggle to do so). The more we
understand about the almighty brain, the better we can help it soar!!
Literacy Work Stations
Grades 3-5
Wednesday,
June 25
Put on your
safari hat and be prepared to explore how fun and simple literacy learning can
be! Spend the day surrounded by interactive, hands-on literacy learning using
proven techniques and strategies. Learn new twists on old ideas as well as an
abundance of new, fresh activities. Make-and-takes and tons of fun await you as
you experience how amazing the jungle of literacy can be! You’ll emerge from
this adventure as the king, or queen, of the literacy jungle!
Using
the Debbie Diller book, Practice with Purpose,
we will explore literacy workstations in the upper grades. We will be looking
at how they are different, how to incorporate them into a very academic and
challenging curriculum and various activities that you can take back to your
classroom to make the transition easier.
Enhanced Six Trait Writing
Do
you wish to enhance your existing writing program? Do you want guidance and
direction in your classroom instruction to offer a balanced writing program?
The Six Traits of Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency,
and Conventions will be a framework for designing, teaching, and analyzing your
writing lessons and instruction.
Fluency Instruction
This
workshop is designed for first through fifth grade teachers. This workshop will
focus on all the aspects of fluency: accuracy, automaticity,
and reading with expression. We will
look at the work of Timothy Rasinski and view a great
DVD that is bursting with fluency instruction ideas. Participants will leave with Wiley Blevins
Book, Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success Grades 2 –
6.