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.
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:
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
Time: 9:30 - 12:30 Central
WHO: Teachers, Grades K-2
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.
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
Workshop Requirements: Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this Informational writing workshop.