Getting Ready to Write (K-1)
Get Your K-1 Students Ready to Write with This Age-Appropriate Instruction
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 DAY 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
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.
Teachers, workshops are full-day with 6 hours of instruction and a 1 hour lunch break.
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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: 14-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
- Ongoing support from the Empowering Writers’ team to ensure your success through virtual teacher talks, online chat Q&A, webinar trainings and much more!
- Price: $170 USD if you already own your required resource or $250 with a required HUB guide, for this pre-recorded training and unlimited support.
- Register Today for immediate online access to this valuable, on-demand 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. If you don’t have it, don’t worry! You may add the EW teaching manual (in either digital or printed form) to your registration. Registration with a Digital Guides is $250 each and readily available through our online HUB teacher portal. The Printed Manual is an additional $132 and will be shipped promptly to your location of choice. Activity Cards are $25 (shipped to your location) and can be used to further enhance your K-1 writing instruction and engage your young students.
- Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a school year HUB license that delivers digital teaching resources for a school year of K-1 writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your K-1 guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use now through June 30, 2022. Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!
Copyright law warning: These recordings are to be used by the purchaser only and are not to be shared or duplicated.
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