BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Participants will learn ways to incorporate movement into their classroom while using interactive anchor charts that utilize pictures, songs, poems, and other types of stimulus to make connections and create/prove inferences. By adding these activities to their instruction, their content will be spiraled through the year, allowing students to retain information by accessing their knowledge in a way that encourages them to see their curriculum in the world around them.
Teachers must intentionally work to build their student’s vocabulary constantly throughout their instructional day. Our training includes brain-based vocabulary activities that naturally build student language without using vocabulary lists and dictionary definitions. Participants will leave with a multitude of new, active, and exciting activities to fit the needs of all students, including their English Language Learners
Participants will learn ways to incorporate movement into their classroom while using interactive anchor charts that utilize pictures, songs, poems, and other types of stimulus to make connections and create/prove inferences. By adding these activities to their instruction, their content will be spiraled through the year, allowing students to retain information by accessing their knowledge in a way that encourages them to see their curriculum in the world around them.
Whether you are questioning or confirming your foundational literacy instruction practices, there is always room for growth in knowledge and skills based on the science of reading. Decades of reading research has clearly defined features of effective literacy instruction and intervention, and we are compelled to respond and teach accordingly. Explicit and systematic phonics instruction benefits all of our learners: it serves as a preventative for many in early elementary general education and as a necessary approach for many who are being supported in the tiers or special education settings, such as students with characteristics of dyslexia, English learners, and adolescents struggling to acquire basic literacy skills. We will not only define the terms associated with explicit and systematic instruction (also known as Structured Literacy), we will also explore examples and non-examples in context. This provides an opportunity for reflection and recommitment to embedding best practices in your literacy instruction to support all your students.
Current research on key literacy strategies will be presented. Using that research, participants will identify ways they can connect their current literacy strategies to support ELs language acquisition through family engagement.
If you enjoyed the keynote, come hear more about how grammar makes meaning as the ultimate reading-writing connection. A six step process will make grammar and editing about author’s purpose and craft.
Imagine you walk into a K-5 classroom and see fascinating picture books and think to yourself, I want to read that book! If you have that feeling of enthusiasm when you read to your students, your students will be excited as well. This session will provide you information on how to utilize picture books to teach the elements of literature in the middle/high school classroom. The presentation will include modeling and explanation of strategies to effectively implement picture books in your middle/high classroom. Participates will delve into high-level picture books, wordless picture books, and picture books pertaining to social studies and STEM. Additionally, attendees will engage in collaborative discussions on how to best apply picture books in a middle/high school classroom. Come and learn how to effectively incorporate picture books in your middle/high school classroom and leave with ideas that you can use in your teaching.
