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. You should select option 1 for registration.
If you have an older version print guide without the Literacy Launch section, please select the option 1 - $50 bundle which includes the live virtual 2-hour session and a 2 month subscription to the Literacy Launch Section on the Hub. We also have new print guides that include the Literacy Launch, please visit our store to order.
How the Literacy Launch Works
Formulated for all grade levels and supported by teacher resources and dynamic instructional materials for 2-8 educators, the Literacy Launch helps every reading experience become a prewriting experience – and vice-versa – in all content areas. When filtered through our proven methodology, the progression of the Literacy Launch creates a powerful learning arc to help students:
You will leave empowered to :
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
Part 2– Informational Skills
Part 3– Putting It All Together
WHAT YOU GET:
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Practicing Process Writing
Forming Assessment Rubrics
Recap of Today’s Learning – Narrative Writing
Workshop Requirements: Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Narrative writing workshop.
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 2– Narrative/Informational Skills
WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1
K-1: Ready, Set, Write: From Daily Sentences to Foundational Skill
If you were wondering how to use the Getting Ready to Write Guide and our Sentence-A-Day resource side-by-side, this is the workshop for you. Come discover “what to do” and “how to do it” in our new edition to the K-1, 6-hour training experience. Encounter the perfect partnership between skill-building and sentence structure with a focus on explicit instruction in writing for younger learners. Teachers will learn to model how to generate ideas, organize thinking, and understand what good writing looks like. Along with skill building, the workshop now includes ways to strengthen sentence structure through Sentence-A-Day, a powerful component that only takes minutes a day. Join us in this parallel approach to foundational skill-building and beginning grammar and mechanics.
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 Introduction to Sentence-A-Day 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 Connecting the skills of Narrative Writing to Sentence-A-Day.
Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection
Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing
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 Linking Informational/Opinion Writing with Sentence-A-Day
Sorting Details for Informational Writing
Creating Diagrams to Inform
Writing Informational Sentences
Exploring Opinion Writing
Summarizing Opinion Pieces
Workshop Requirements: Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.
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