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!

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.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

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 Carla Thio) 
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Ongoing support from the Empowering Writers’ team to ensure your success through virtual teacher talks, online chat Q&A, webinar trainings and much more!
• 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.    

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.

*Early Bird thru 7/8/25 

• Read a range of text types with Author’s Eyes, focusing on Author’s purpose, audience, and organization. 
• Identify and develop a variety of writing techniques that initiate vivid elaboration in addition to contextual clarity supported by effective text evidence. 

WHO: Grade 3-5 Educators

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 Responsive Writing

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 and Revision Techniques 
• Forming Assessment Rubrics
• Recap of Today’s Learning 

• 6 hours of  Writing instruction (taught by Educator, Laura Thomas)
• 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
• 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

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:  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.

• Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

• 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:

• Apply awareness and analytical skills to written expression for the ability to annotate and analyze any text across their learning
• Develop a clear connection between the foundational reading skills needed to generate writing and to respond effectively to text, either through a constructed response or literary analysis
• Gain a deeper comprehension of text that strengthens their own writing and strategic reading abilities

You will leave empowered to :

• Utilize text in all content area
• Discuss genre and author’s purpose with every text experience
• Showcase how the author uses the graphic organizers
• Summarize text using the summarizing frameworks
• Identify the salient features of each genre
• Build a common language with students for more productive conversations
• Be better able to offer specific feedback to improve student writing
• Teach the foundational understanding necessary for any writing task
• Develop the ability to read with “author’s eyes”
• Make every reading experience a prewriting experience

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.

• Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

• 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:

• Apply awareness and analytical skills to written expression for the ability to annotate and analyze any text across their learning
• Develop a clear connection between the foundational reading skills needed to generate writing and to respond effectively to text, either through a constructed response or literary analysis
• Gain a deeper comprehension of text that strengthens their own writing and strategic reading abilities

You will leave empowered to :

• Utilize text in all content area
• Discuss genre and author’s purpose with every text experience
• Showcase how the author uses the graphic organizers
• Summarize text using the summarizing frameworks
• Identify the salient features of each genre
• Build a common language with students for more productive conversations
• Be better able to offer specific feedback to improve student writing
• Teach the foundational understanding necessary for any writing task
• Develop the ability to read with “author’s eyes”
• Make every reading experience a prewriting experience

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:  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.

• Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

• 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 Lesson 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:

• Apply awareness and analytical skills to written expression for the ability to annotate and analyze any text across their learning
• Develop a clear connection between the foundational reading skills needed to generate writing and to respond effectively to text, either through a constructed response or literary analysis
• Gain a deeper comprehension of text that strengthens their own writing and strategic reading abilities

You will leave empowered to :

• Utilize text in all content area
• Discuss genre and author’s purpose with every text experience
• Showcase how the author uses the graphic organizers
• Summarize text using the summarizing frameworks
• Identify the salient features of each genre
• Build a common language with students for more productive conversations
• Be better able to offer specific feedback to improve student writing
• Teach the foundational understanding necessary for any writing task
• Develop the ability to read with “author’s eyes”
• Make every reading experience a prewriting experience

Early Bird until 8/14/25 - $125!

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 EW Trainer, Laura Thomas)

• 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.  

Workshop Requirements:

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this K-1 writing workshop.  

• Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers digital teaching resources for an entire year of K-1 writing instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your K-1 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

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:  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.

• Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

• 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:

• Apply awareness and analytical skills to written expression for the ability to annotate and analyze any text across their learning
• Develop a clear connection between the foundational reading skills needed to generate writing and to respond effectively to text, either through a constructed response or literary analysis
• Gain a deeper comprehension of text that strengthens their own writing and strategic reading abilities

You will leave empowered to :

• Utilize text in all content area
• Discuss genre and author’s purpose with every text experience
• Showcase how the author uses the graphic organizers
• Summarize text using the summarizing frameworks
• Identify the salient features of each genre
• Build a common language with students for more productive conversations
• Be better able to offer specific feedback to improve student writing
• Teach the foundational understanding necessary for any writing task
• Develop the ability to read with “author’s eyes”
• Make every reading experience a prewriting experience

Early Bird thru 9/10/25!

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 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

• Developing an Entertaining Beginning
• Creating Elaborate Details
• Building Suspense
• Describing the Main Event
• Developing Extended Endings

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

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of Narrative Writing instruction (taught by Carla Thio) 
• Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
• Ongoing support from the Empowering Writers’ team to ensure your success through virtual teacher talks, online chat Q&A, webinar trainings and much more!
• Early Bird thru 2/24/25 - $100 Registration with the Digital Narrative guide until June 30 2025
  
• After Early Bird - Price:  $175 USD, registration only. To register with the required resource:
• • Reg plus 1 yr Genre HUB guide with Narrative and Informational skills - $295 USD
  • Reg plus 2 yr Genre HUB guide with Narrative and Informational skills - $395 
  • Reg plus printed guide - $365 USD 
• 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:  

• 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

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.)

Early Bird Registration through Sept. 18th!

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!

Early Bird Registration through Sept. 23rd!

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 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 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 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.    

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.