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    • 15 Jul 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Live Zoom Classroom
    • 28
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    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 our narrative workshop in person.

    Learn skills and strategies for teaching effective narrative writing whether you teach ELA, Social Studies, Humanities or Science. We will make connections to all parts of your curriculum so you can seamlessly apply the skills your students learn to your content area topics. 

    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.  

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


    • 16 Jul 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Zoom classroom - Central Time
    Register

    WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

    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: Age-appropriate, instructional tools to effectively teach your youngest (K-1) students the foundational skills they need to become strong writers. You’ll be introduced to the developmental stages of writing, learn to teach your students how to identify genre and author’s purpose, and develop the foundational skills of narrative, informational and opinion writing. Through this training, you will gain confidence in your writing instruction, and develop the writing/reading connection for your students across all content areas.

    HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

    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

    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

    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

    •  Recap of Today’s Learning – Foundational Writing Skills for K-1 Students

      BONUS Training (Recorded) – The Developmental Stages of Writing. This pre-recorded instructional session features EW’s Master Educators providing you with a deeper dive into the stages of writing. It also includes a PowerPoint presentation that highlights key aspects of this learning

    WHAT YOU GET: 

    • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write 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.


      • 2 Oct 2025
      • 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
      • Zoom classroom - Central Time
      Register

      WHO:  Teachers, Grades K-2

      WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

      Kindergarten,1st and 2nd grade educators will learn to implement our A Sentence A Day resource.  Instruction includes a weekly guide on how to establish meaningful routines in the primary classroom that focus on writing sentences, building powerful vocabulary, and learning grammar and conventions. Each week of instruction includes a theme and is often useful for building awareness of story. 

      This Professional Development course will include connections to Kindergarten and 1st Grades Getting to Write resources and Grade 2 genre specific writing resources. 

      Our digital A Sentence A Day resource, available in the HUB, includes bonus content in the form of PowerPoints, and will be introduced during the course. Join our master educators for this comprehensive Professional Development course to successfully implement  A Sentence a Day. 

      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!


        • 14 Oct 2025
        • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
        • Zoom classroom - Central Time
        Register

        WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

        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: Age-appropriate, instructional tools to effectively teach your youngest (K-1) students the foundational skills they need to become strong writers. You’ll be introduced to the developmental stages of writing, learn to teach your students how to identify genre and author’s purpose, and develop the foundational skills of narrative, informational and opinion writing. Through this training, you will gain confidence in your writing instruction, and develop the writing/reading connection for your students across all content areas.

        HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

        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

        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

        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

        •  Recap of Today’s Learning – Foundational Writing Skills for K-1 Students

          BONUS Training (Recorded) – The Developmental Stages of Writing. This pre-recorded instructional session features EW’s Master Educators providing you with a deeper dive into the stages of writing. It also includes a PowerPoint presentation that highlights key aspects of this learning

        WHAT YOU GET: 

        • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write 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.



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