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  • Aug. 22, Thurs - LIVE Zoom - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

    • 22 Aug 2024
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Zoom Classroom - EASTERN Time
    Register

    Please note - Start time is 8:30 EASTERN

    WHAT YOU GET: 

    • 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
      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. 
    • 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.
    • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One 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.  (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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    • Aug. 26, Mon. - LIVE Zoom - Canadian Teachers - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Narrative Skills (Gr 2-8)

      • 26 Aug 2024
      • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (MDT)
      • Live Zoom Classroom
      Register

      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 of all grade levels. 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.

      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!
      • Price:  $175 USD, registration only, for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. To register with the required resource:
        • Reg plus 1 yr Narrative HUB guide - $300 USD
        • Reg plus 2 yr Narrative HUB guide - $375 (Saving of $50 USD) 
        • 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.  

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      • Sept. 12, Thurs. - LIVE 2hr Zoom -Literacy Launch! Leveraging the Reading/Writing Connection(Gr 2-8)

        • 12 Sep 2024
        • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CDT)
        • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
        Register

        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’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.

        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 areas

        • 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: 

        • 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.

        • 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.

        • 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.  

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

          • 19 Sep 2024
          • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
          • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
          Register

          WHAT YOU GET: 

          • 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
            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. 
          • 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.
          • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One 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.  (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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          • 9/25 & 26 - LIVE Zoom - Getting Ready to Write (K-1) - 2 part session

            • 25 Sep 2024
            • 26 Sep 2024
            • 2 sessions
            • Zoom classroom - Eastern Time
            Register

            Please note 8:30 Eastern start time, 11:30 end time. Both sessions required.

            WHAT YOU GET: 

            • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction (taught by Master Educators)

            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: 
            • 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.

            • Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

            • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital GRTW HUB guide. Or $370 with our digital All In One Writing Guide which includes Narrative, Informational, Sentence A Day, digital poster set and additional Activity Cards.
            • 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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            • Sept. 26, Thurs. - LIVE Zoom - Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

              • 26 Sep 2024
              • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
              • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
              Register

              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.

              WHAT YOU GET: 

              This 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

              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.
              • 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.
              • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One Writing Guide. Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

              • 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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              • Oct. 3, Thurs. - LIVE Zoom - Sentence A Day (Gr K-2)

                • 3 Oct 2024
                • 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
                • Zoom classroom - Central Time
                Register

                WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  

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

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

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

                WHAT YOU GET: 

                • 3 hours of Sentence A Day instruction (taught by Master Educators)
                  • Certificate of Attendance for 3-hours of Professional Development
                  • Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.

                  • Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

                  • 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:  $100 USD for a 3 hour day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $225 USD to include either a year's subscription to the digital Sentence A Day HUB guide or a printed SAD 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.  (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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                • Oct. 18, Fri. - LIVE Zoom - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

                  • 18 Oct 2024
                  • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
                  • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                  Register

                  WHAT YOU GET: 

                  • 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
                    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. 
                  • 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.
                  • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One 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.  (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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                  • Oct. 22, Tues. - LIVE Zoom - Getting Ready to Write (K-1)

                    • 22 Oct 2024
                    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
                    • Zoom classroom - Central Time
                    Register

                    WHAT YOU GET: 

                    • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction (taught by Master Educators)

                    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: 
                    • 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.

                    • Opportunities for group work, discussion and reflection provided.

                    • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital GRTW HUB guide. Or $370 with our digital All In One Writing Guide which includes Narrative, Informational, Sentence A Day, digital poster set and additional Activity Cards.
                    • 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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                    • Oct. 24, Thurs. - LIVE Zoom - Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

                      • 24 Oct 2024
                      • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CDT)
                      • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                      Register

                      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.

                      WHAT YOU GET: 

                      This 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

                      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.
                      • 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.
                      • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One Writing Guide. Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

                      • 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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                      • Nov. 12, Tues. - LIVE Zoom - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

                        • 12 Nov 2024
                        • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CST)
                        • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                        Register

                        WHAT YOU GET: 

                        • 6 hours of Informational Writing instruction (taught by Master Educators)
                          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. 
                        • 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.
                        • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One 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.  (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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                        • Nov. 21, Thurs. - LIVE Zoom - Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

                          • 21 Nov 2024
                          • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (CST)
                          • Zoom Classroom - Central Time
                          Register

                          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.

                          WHAT YOU GET: 

                          This 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

                          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.
                          • 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.
                          • 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:  $175 USD for a full day of instruction and unlimited support. Or $300 USD to include a year's subscription to the digital Informational HUB guide or $450 with our digital All In One Writing Guide. Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.

                          • 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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