Monday, 7/26 - Kathy Bumgardner: Meaningful and Timely Classroom Literacy Instruction That Works Registration Fee $75
One of the biggest obstacles in successful classroom literacy planning today is TIME! Participants in this session will finally have a “gift of time” with an entire professional day of learning about, and creating plans and materials for, real “tried and true” literacy strategies and ideas for successful classrooms and meaningful instruction.
Wednesday, 7/28 - Ralph Fletcher: Widening the Circle – Registration Fee $100
In recent years, the circle has gotten smaller in many writing classrooms. We are seeing less choice, less play, less inquiry, less student-directed publishing. This session will look at ways we can widen the circle by encouraging young writers to be more playful.
Thursday, 7/29 - Katie Wood Ray: Improving the Process of Creative Work - Planning, Drafting, Revising and Editing – Registration Fee $100
Beginning writers use both pictures and words to making meaning, and likewise, beginning readers use both pictures and words to understand meaning in the books they read. When young children are taught to study illustrations as compositions and think about the decision making of the illustrators, their thinking as readers and writers deepens. This session will explore illustration study as a vital part of the curriculum in a writing workshop.
Friday, 7/30 - Karen Haag: Creating Reading-Writing Projects – Registration Fee $75
In this workshop, Karen shares her projects that entice students to read and write more than they ever thought possible. Students deconstruct mentor texts in order to understand genre structures so they can write their own pieces. In the process, students discover text features and literary elements thereby improving comprehension. Through investigating, thinking, talking, recording and writing, comprehension and writing skills improve. Best of all, school is fun and test scores go up in any content area featured by the teacher, even math!
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North Buncombe High School comes out in force!
Fairview supports "Education is Bleeding" day.
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