PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Literacy Deep Comprehension (PD7)
This course moves beyond comprehension skills and strategies to underscore the benefits of teacher read-alouds in fostering deep comprehension. Experience strategies that will engage your students in meaningful discussions; develop perspective taking; increase complex reasoning; and develop rich speaking, writing, and listening vocabularies. These strategies will help students analyze literary texts in different genres and disciplines, as required in the Common Core State Standards.
Weaving Together Literacy and Social Development (PD8) When social-emotional learning and literacy are linked in the classroom, all students discover their voices and express themselves as they read, write, and speak in a safe classroom community. Through culturally diverse literature, participants will explore universal themes such as Identity Awareness; Perspective Taking; Conflict Resolution; Family, Friends, and Community; Social Awareness; and Democracy as the vehicle to teach literacy skills and address social development. By creating a positive classroom culture, students achieve academically and socially.
A Focus on Anti-bullying Strategies (PD9)
An essential goal for educators is to engage students through social- emotional concepts and themes in order to teach them how to negotiate conflict; respect varying points of view; and express personal opinions, thoughts, and feelings. Learn activities that use carefully selected children’s literature to help students deal with issues of bullying, create a more positive classroom and/or school climate, and allow for greater academic achievement.
What’s the “Diff” in Differentiated Instruction? (PD5) Are you looking for ways to meet the Common Core State Standards? This interactive workshop emphasizes the importance of making learning accessible to all students and will help participants understand what differentiated instruction is, its guiding principles, and how to practice it in the classroom.
Guided Reading (PD6) Plan, set the scene, read, return, and respond. Take a look at each step in guided reading to learn how it makes a difference in helping students learn to read. Learn how a balance of instruction and assessments, both formal and informal, leads to greater accountability and helps teachers increase student achievement.
Nonfiction: Expository Text Everywhere (PD10) Examine best practices in teaching nonfiction by making connections to learning theory, relevant content-area instruction, and strategy instruction. The Reading Standards for Informational Text from the Common Core State Standards stress that students ask and answer questions, use text features and illustrations, compare and contrast, recognize main idea and support details, and more. Learn, practice, and apply strategies that will help your students transfer reading strategies across the curriculum.
Vocabulary
Enrich Vocabulary to Meet the Common Core State Standards (PD11) Learn about the important relationship between vocabulary and comprehension and how to deliver direct vocabulary instruction that helps meet the demands of content-area reading and the Common Core State Standards. Learn strategies for vocabulary development, including context clues, Latin and Greek roots, and reference skills. Explicit instruction in vocabulary allows your students to take ownership of new vocabulary as they discover the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, use context clues, analyze meaningful word parts, and
consult reference materials (CCSS Language Standard 4); demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings (CCSS Language Standard 5); and acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases for reading, writing, speaking, and listening (CCSS Language Standard 6).
Writing
Writing to Communicate: Using the Six Traits in the Writing Process (PD14) Explore the traits and their relationship to the writing process, as stated in CCSS Writing Standard 5: “Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.” Experience a wide variety of trait-specific, process-based writing strategies to support mastery of the Common Core State Standards. Exemplar models and genre-specific rubrics will be supplied to address trait management within writing genres focusing on argument, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing (CCSS Writing Standards 1, 2, and 3). This course also focuses on the use of technology to interact and collaborate with other writers (CCSS Writing Standard 6).
Writing to Meet the Common Core State Standards (PD3) Help your students meet the rigorous Common Core State Standards for Writing, 1–10, and achieve the writing sophistication needed to be college and career ready. Come prepared to write as you join in this session that delves into the writing standards while offering strategies and activities to help your students demonstrate independence and strong content knowledge; be able to respond to demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline (CCSS Writing Standard 10); and conduct research projects where they draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research (CCSS Writing Standard 9).
Spelling
Why Spelling “Madders!” Helping All Your Students Spell Success (PD13) Provide all of your students with the missing piece to the literacy puzzle and ensure that they become better spellers, readers, writers, and test takers! Dr. Richard J. Gentry’s research shows that good spelling ability is not merely memorization of spellings, but acquisition of more and more complex aspects of word knowledge over time. Learn strategies to easily differentiate instruction, conduct interactive research-based word sorts, use interactive whiteboard technology for ease in whole group instruction, and demonstrate command of the conventions of English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling (CCSS Language Standard 2). As a result, your students will internalize, retain, and transfer valuable spelling knowledge to their daily reading and writing.
Reading/Writing Workshop: Making it Work for All Literacies! (PD4) Brain research clearly shows that handwriting and spelling are critical foundational literacy skills necessary to move students to high-level reading and writing success. Finding time to directly instruct these skills can be a challenge. This course is designed to help you efficiently layer the various elements of literacy instruction to make every minute count within the reading and writing workshop. In this course, you will explore the research-based connections between spelling, handwriting, and literacy. You will experience the best practices for teaching spelling and handwriting and the most efficient ways to integrate those strategies within a reading and writing workshop. Specific hands-on activities and lessons will be shared to promote immediate and successful implementation of course content.
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