In-Person, Thur. 10/22 - Foxborough, MA - Getting Ready to Write with A Sentence A Day (K-1)

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 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

WHAT YOU GET: 

• 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction with A Sentence A Day (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)
• Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.