1. Get ‘Em Moving - Then Get ‘Em Writing: Active Student Engagement Strategies:
This session is jam-packed with strategies to get students actively involved in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and oral communication lessons. As students interact with one another, they build foundational skills which help them easily master complex literacy concepts.
Why You Should Attend this Session
- The activities in this workshop are based on the New Jersey Student Learning Standards for English Language Arts.
- Learn several Get ‘Em Moving engagement strategies which can be used in a variety of ways throughout the year.:
- Participants will leave the session with a full set of standards-based print-and-go materials.
Audience: English Language Arts Teachers (Grades 3-8), Literacy Coaches, Supervisors
2. Incorporating the Speaking and Listening Standards into Research Tasks
Are your students terrified of public speaking? Do your students listen to you but tune-out one another? Does the idea of writing and sharing research reports make your students groan out loud? If so, it’s time to change all of that. That’s right, your students can learn to love oral presentations, listening activities, and…yes…even writing and sharing research reports.
Why You Should Attend this Session
- To help students build background knowledge in just a few minutes a day
- To find out some new ways to get students to craft worthy claims and support them with evidence
- To get students to become more attentive and responsive to one another
- To learn tricks that will make students look forward to research-gathering and presentation days
- Participants will leave the session with lesson ideas and a full set of standards-based print-and-go materials.
Audience: Social Studies Teachers, Science Teachers, English Language Arts Teachers, Arts & Humanities Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Supervisors (Grades 3-8)
3. New Tools for Writer’s Workshop
Are your students terrified of public speaking? Do your students listen to you but tune-out one another? Does the idea of writing and sharing research reports make your students groan out loud? If so, it’s time to change all of that. That’s right, your students can learn to love oral presentations, listening activities, and…yes…even writing and sharing research reports.
Why You Should Attend this Session
- Low-prep, whole-class engagement strategies will be featured, along with high-interest lessons on revising, editing and teaching standards-based conventions.
- Participants will leave the session with numerous print-and-go materials. A digital version of all lessons will be available as well.
Audience: English Language Arts Teachers (Grades 4-8), Literacy Coaches, Supervisors
4. Claim It. Prove It. Simplify It.
Close Reading, Questioning, and Writing Strategies to Use with Any Text
Close reading is the backbone of the reading anchor standards. It’s no accident that the first two words of the first reading standards are “read closely.” With this in mind, Claim It - Prove It - Simplify It was created to demonstrate powerful and high-interest strategies, designed to help students (1) extract meaning from fiction and nonfiction, (2) annotate readings with discussion-worthy questions or observations, and (3) write clear, thorough analyses in response to both literary and informational pieces.
Why You Should Attend this Session
- Students must have go-to strategies which will help them efficiently and effectively question, summarize, paraphrase, and analyze information.
- Students become more confident readers and writers when they know how to meaningfully interact with and evaluate multi-gene passages.
- Participants will leave the session with hands-on strategies and manipulatives which will dramatically improve group discussions, visualization skills, and written responses.
Audience: Literacy coaches, teachers responsible for teaching the English Language Arts standards, administrators, and professional developers responsible for the academic achievement of students in grades 3-10
Feel free to contact ELA Seminars, LLC at 609-338-3469. We will be happy to help you.