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  • Oct. 22, Tues. - LIVE Zoom - Getting Ready to Write (K-1)

    • 22 Oct 2024
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • 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
      • 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. 7, Thurs. - LIVE Zoom - Sentence A Day (Gr K-2)

        • 7 Nov 2024
        • 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
        • 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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        • Nov. 12, Tues. - LIVE Zoom - Launching into Literacy - Diving into Informational Skills (Gr 2-8)

          • 12 Nov 2024
          • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
          • 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
            • 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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