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  • LIVE Zoom, Thur. 11/13 - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

    • 13 Nov 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
    Register

    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!


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    • LIVE Zoom, Wed. 11/26 - 2 hr A Sentence A Day (Gr K-2) for Canadian Educators

      • 26 Nov 2025
      • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
      • Zoom classroom - Mountain Time
      Register

      WHO:  Teachers, Grades K-2

      WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

      Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade educators will learn how to implement our A Sentence A Day resource. Instruction includes a weekly guide that establishes meaningful routines in the primary classroom.

      The focus begins in Kindergarten with pencil placement, spacing, and letter formation. The resource then progresses to writing sentences and building powerful vocabulary, alongside grammar and conventions. The 1st and 2nd grade components of A Sentence A Day continue the construction of strong sentences while emphasizing parts of speech, grammar, and conventions.

      Each week of instruction includes a theme, helping students begin to build story awareness.

      This professional development course will also include connections to the Getting to Write resources for Kindergarten and 1st grade, as well as genre-specific writing resources for 2nd grade.

      Our digital A Sentence A Day resource—available in the HUB—includes bonus content in the form of daily PowerPoint presentations, which will be shared throughout the workshop.

      Join our master educators for this comprehensive half-day professional development workshop to successfully implement A Sentence A Day in your classroom.

      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!


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      • LIVE Zoom, Thur. 1/22 - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

        • 22 Jan 2026
        • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
        • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
        Register

        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!


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        • LIVE Zoom,Thur. 1/29 - Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

          • 29 Jan 2026
          • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
          • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
          Register

          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.


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          • LIVE Zoom, Tues. 2/3 - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational and Narrative Skills (Gr 2-8)

            • 3 Feb 2026
            • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
            • Live Zoom Classroom
            Register

            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 
            WHAT YOU GET: 
            • 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.)
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          • LIVE Zoom, Thurs. 2/5 - Getting Ready to Write (K-1)

            • 5 Feb 2026
            • 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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            • LIVE Zoom, Tues. 2/10 - A Sentence A Day (Gr K-2)

              • 10 Feb 2026
              • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
              • Zoom classroom - Central Time
              Register

              Time: 12 - 3pm Central

              WHO:  Teachers, Grades K-2

              WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

              Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade educators will learn how to implement our A Sentence A Day resource. Instruction includes a weekly guide that establishes meaningful routines in the primary classroom.

              The focus begins in Kindergarten with pencil placement, spacing, and letter formation. The resource then progresses to writing sentences and building powerful vocabulary, alongside grammar and conventions. The 1st and 2nd grade components of A Sentence A Day continue the construction of strong sentences while emphasizing parts of speech, grammar, and conventions.

              Each week of instruction includes a theme, helping students begin to build story awareness.

              This professional development course will also include connections to the Getting to Write resources for Kindergarten and 1st grade, as well as genre-specific writing resources for 2nd grade.

              Our digital A Sentence A Day resource—available in the HUB—includes bonus content in the form of daily PowerPoint presentations, which will be shared throughout the workshop.

              Join our master educators for this comprehensive half-day professional development workshop to successfully implement A Sentence A Day in your classroom.




              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!


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              • LIVE Zoom, Thur. 2/19 - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

                • 19 Feb 2026
                • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
                • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                Register

                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!


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                • LIVE Zoom,Thur. 2/26 - Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

                  • 26 Feb 2026
                  • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
                  • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                  Register

                  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.


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