WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.  Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Informational digital teaching resources for an entire year of informational writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Informational Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from payment date.   
  
  Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

Canada Market - Build cross-curricular connections through Narrative Writing! Come join our training team where Carla Thio, our Master Trainer in Canada, will be presenting.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8 

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach narrative writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work. Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to help students effectively respond to text and strengthen both writing abilities and reading comprehension skills.

HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy         

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success

• Recognizing Genre

• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)

• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text

• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis

• Identifying Text Conventions (clues) for Constructed Response

Part 2 - Narrative Skills

• Developing an Entertaining Beginning

• Creating Elaborate Details

• Building Suspense

• Describing the Main Event

• Developing Extended Endings

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing

• Forming Assessment Rubrics

• Recap of Today’s Learning – Narrative Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Narrative Writing instruction (taught by Master Educator Carla Thio)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Narrative writing workshop.   

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.  Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Informational digital teaching resources for an entire year of informational writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Informational Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from payment date.   
  
  Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, confidently teach narrative, informational/opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to help students effectively respond to text and strengthen both writing abilities and reading comprehension skills. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy    

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis 
• Identifying Text Conventions (clues) for Constructed Response (TDW)

Part 2– Narrative/Informational Skills

• Developing an Entertaining Beginning- Narrative
• Creating Elaborate Detail- Narrative
• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas- Informational
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions- Informational 

Part 3– Putting It All Together 

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning 

• 6 hours of  Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time.)

WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

K-1: Ready, Set, Write: From Daily Sentences to Foundational Skill

If you were wondering how to use the Getting Ready to Write Guide and our Sentence-A-Day resource side-by-side, this is the workshop for you. Come discover “what to do” and “how to do it” in our new edition to the K-1, 6-hour training experience.  Encounter the perfect partnership between skill-building and sentence structure with a focus on explicit instruction in writing for younger learners. Teachers will learn to model how to generate ideas, organize thinking, and understand what good writing looks like. Along with skill building, the workshop now includes ways to strengthen sentence structure through Sentence-A-Day, a powerful component that only takes minutes a day. Join us in this parallel approach to foundational skill-building and beginning grammar and mechanics. 

Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
• Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre; inform vs. entertain purpose)
•  Summarizing Text
•  Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development
• Introduction to Sentence-A-Day

Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing

• Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
•  Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
•  Generating Elaborative Detail -
•  Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?” 
•  Crafting Suspenseful Segments  
• Connecting the skills of Narrative Writing to Sentence-A-Day.

Part 3– Foundational Skills of Informational and Opinion Writing

• Sorting Details for Informational Writing

• Creating Diagrams to Inform

•  Writing Informational Sentences

•  Exploring Opinion Writing

•  Summarizing Opinion Pieces
  

• Linking Informational/Opinion Writing with Sentence-A-Day

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction with A Sentence A Day (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)
• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.  Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Informational digital teaching resources for an entire year of informational writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Informational Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from payment date.   
  
  Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.  Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Informational digital teaching resources for an entire year of informational writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Informational Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from payment date.   
  
  Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 3 hours of Sentence A Day instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  

• Certificate of Attendance for 3-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers digital teaching resources for an entire year of writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Sentence A Day Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from received payment date.   Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

K-1: Ready, Set, Write: From Daily Sentences to Foundational Skill

If you were wondering how to use the Getting Ready to Write Guide and our Sentence-A-Day resource side-by-side, this is the workshop for you. Come discover “what to do” and “how to do it” in our new edition to the K-1, 6-hour training experience.  Encounter the perfect partnership between skill-building and sentence structure with a focus on explicit instruction in writing for younger learners. Teachers will learn to model how to generate ideas, organize thinking, and understand what good writing looks like. Along with skill building, the workshop now includes ways to strengthen sentence structure through Sentence-A-Day, a powerful component that only takes minutes a day. Join us in this parallel approach to foundational skill-building and beginning grammar and mechanics. 

Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
• Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre; inform vs. entertain purpose)
•  Summarizing Text
•  Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development
• Introduction to Sentence-A-Day

Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing

• Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
•  Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
•  Generating Elaborative Detail -
•  Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?” 
•  Crafting Suspenseful Segments  
• Connecting the skills of Narrative Writing to Sentence-A-Day.

Part 3– Foundational Skills of Informational and Opinion Writing

• Sorting Details for Informational Writing

• Creating Diagrams to Inform

•  Writing Informational Sentences

•  Exploring Opinion Writing

•  Summarizing Opinion Pieces
  

• Linking Informational/Opinion Writing with Sentence-A-Day

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction with A Sentence A Day (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)
• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.  Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Informational digital teaching resources for an entire year of informational writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Informational Writing digital guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use for a year from payment date.   
  
  Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, confidently teach narrative, informational/opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to help students effectively respond to text and strengthen both writing abilities and reading comprehension skills. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy    

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis 
• Identifying Text Conventions (clues) for Constructed Response (TDW)

Part 2– Narrative/Informational Skills

• Developing an Entertaining Beginning- Narrative
• Creating Elaborate Detail- Narrative
• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas- Informational
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions- Informational 

Part 3– Putting It All Together 

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning 

• 6 hours of  Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time.)

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

• Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text
  

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

WHAT YOU GET:

• 6 hours of Constructed Response instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development

• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

WHO:  Teachers, Grades 2-8

This presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text. 

HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy      

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and how it creates writing success
• Recognizing Genre
• Identifying Organizational Frameworks (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
• Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
• Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
• Identifying Text Conventions (“clues” discovery) for Constructed Response
  

Part 2– Informational Skills

• Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
• Creating Detail-Generating Questions
• Widening Sentence Variety
• Conducting/referencing Research
•  Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

• Practicing Process Writing
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Writing instruction (taught by Master Educator Carla Thio)
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
• Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.