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    • 7 Nov 2025
    • 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.


      • 7 Nov 2025
      • 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.


        • 7 Nov 2025
        • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
        • 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.

        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 Educator Carla Thio)
        • 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.    
        Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

        • 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!


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

          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!


            • 3 Dec 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!


              • 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!


                • 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.


                  • 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.)
                  • 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.


                    • 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!


                      • 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!


                        • 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)

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