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*Early Bird Special thru 3/21/25 - $100 Registration with Digital Informational Guide - active until 6/30/25
Canada Market - Build cross-curricular connections through Informational Writing! Come join our training team where Carla Thio, our Master Trainer in Canada, will be presenting our informational workshop in person.
WHAT YOU GET:
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. Part 1– Launching into Literacy
Part 2– Informational Skills
Part 3– Putting It All Together
Workshop Requirements: Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Narrative writing workshop.
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.
Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.
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. WHAT YOU GET:
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.
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.
The Literacy Launch! Leveraging the Reading/Writing Connection - 2 hour virtual training
Who: Grades 2-8 Classroom teachers, content area teachers, teachers who want to build student literacy through writing
Why? Whether you are fully invested in the Empowering Writers approach or looking to leverage your current reading materials or content texts, this is the starting point.
What you get:
2 hours of Literacy Launch instruction (taught by Master Educators
Certificate of Attendance for 2 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.
Price: $75 USD for a 2-hour day of instruction. Or $125 USD to include either a year's subscription to the digital Literacy Launch HUB resource or $350 with the All In One HUB Writing Guide.
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.
What’s included?
If you have a current HUB subscription, the Literacy Launch Section is already included in your digital resource.
If you have an older version print guide without the Literacy Launch section, please select the $125 bundle which includes the live virtual 2-hour session and a 1-year subscription to the Literacy Launch Section on the Hub. We also have new print guides that include the Literacy Launch, please visit our store to order.
How the Literacy Launch Works
Formulated for all grade levels and supported by teacher resources and dynamic instructional materials for 2-8 educators, the Literacy Launch helps every reading experience become a prewriting experience – and vice-versa – in all content areas. When filtered through our proven methodology, the progression of the Literacy Launch creates a powerful learning arc to help students:
You will leave empowered to :
Teach Your Students How to Apply Analysis Skills to Short and Extended Constructed Response
OBJECTIVE: Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text.
This highly requested 6-hour course will focus on these objectives:
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
The training AND a 1 year digital resource subscription are available now for only $100 per person! That's a $200 savings, as we want to provide a discounted rate to welcome you back to this form of PD. It's an offer you can't resist. But don't wait - there are only 30 spots available, so be sure to reserve your seat now.
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
Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.
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 72 hours prior to the training time)
The training AND a 1 year digital resource subscription are available now for only $175 per person! That's a $125 savings, as we want to provide a discounted rate to welcome you back to this form of PD. It's an offer you can't resist. But don't wait - there are only 40 spots available, so be sure to reserve your seat now.
Early Bird thru 4/25/25 - $100 Registration with the Digital Narrative guide until Aug 30 2025
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. This workshop is geared towards teachers grades 2-8. Empowering Writers' approach to writing instruction is student centered and teacher friendly.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Foundational writing skills that start by reading with “Author’s Eyes,” instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text through annotation and analysis, how to break the writing process down into manageable pieces, how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work, differentiation strategies, and the confidence to teach narrative writing as you build a community of writers through common language and assured experiences.
HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUTPart 1– Launching into Literacy
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.
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.
This 6 hour course will focus on these objectives:
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
Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended. Additional Highlights:
Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.
Additional Highlights:
The training AND a 1 year digital resource subscription is available now for only $175 per person! That's a $125 savings.
Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.
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