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With almost 40 years of teaching experience, this workshop will be one you don’t want to miss! Participants will walk away with valuable knowledge of the progression of writing and reading. You will also go back to your school with tons of examples and ideas you can use right away!
Presentation November 1st
Slideshow to music of classroom pix
Introduction
· Introduce ourselves, show a headline, need markers and sentence strips
· headline: Kindergarten teacher at Hutchison, Mom of three, and grad student
· headline: Mom of two and Junior Kindergarten teacher starts year 20 with all boys!
· participants make headline
· Turn/talk/share
Agenda
· Listening/ Speaking
o Turn/talk/share
· Wrap Up
Listening/ Speaking
· Examples of children’s work-slideshow pix
· Ideas to use
o Birthday board
o Sharing/show and tell
o Mystery bag-show and explanation
o Scientist of the week
o Reading a book by parents, teachers
o Partner portraits
o Listening center
o Venn diagrams
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Does this remind you of a great idea?
Writing
· Slideshow-take pix of writing samples
· Stages of writing-Laura
· Journal explanation and how to begin-Laura
o Video of journal writing-JK boys and girls
· Writer’s Workshop Format
o Pix of SK-Melody-explanation
o Video
· Turn/talk/share
· Any great ideas?
Reading
· Integrated Unit Studies
o Comprehension strategies
o Comprehension Toolkit
o Harvard Thinking Routines
· Shared Reading
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Any great ideas?
Wrap Up
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Presentation
Slideshow to music of classroom pix
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Does this remind you of a great idea?
Thinking Routine:
See Think Wonder
Writing
Dictation
Morning news
Labeling
Labeling
Documenting conversations and student’s thought processes
Book writing
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Any great ideas?
Wrap Up
Harvard Thinking Routine: I Used to Think…Now I Think…
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· Any great ideas?
Wrap Up
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Presentation
Slideshow to music of classroom pix
Introduction
· Introduce ourselves, show a headline, need markers and sentence strips
· Harvard Thinking Routine: headline: Kindergarten teacher at Hutchison, Mom of three, and grad student
· headline: Mom of two and Junior Kindergarten teacher starts year 20 with all boys!
· Participants make headline and nametags (folded cardstock paper.)
· Turn/talk/share
Overview of today-give agenda- show on smart board, goal, t-chart of ideas
· Goal: How writing can be integrated into many different areas and leave with hands-on ideas to implement in the classroom.
Agenda
· Listening/ Speaking
o Examples of children’s work
o Ideas to use in the classroom
o Turn/talk/share
· Writing
o Video evidence of children’s work
o Journal explanation and how to begin
o Writer’s workshop format
o Turn/talk/share
· Reading
o Integrate unit studies
o Shared reading
o Turn/talk/share
· Wrap Up
Environment: How to set up the room, centers, print everywhere, with themes-show room arrangement in pictures
Listening/ Speaking
· Ideas to use
o Birthday board-Melody
o Sharing/show and tell-Laura
o Partner portraits-Melody
o Mystery bag-show and explanation-Laura
o Scientist of the week-Laura
o Reading a book by parents, teachers-Melody
o Re-telling of stories-Melody
o Listening center/computers-Laura
o Venn diagrams-Melody
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Does this remind you of a great idea?
Harvard Thinking Routine:
See Think Wonder
Writing
Dictation
Morning news
Labeling
Documenting conversations and student’s thought processes
Book writing
Math books, class books
Experience charts
Theme word cards
· Slideshow-take pix of writing samples
· Stages of writing-Laura
· Journal explanation and how to begin-Laura
o Video of journal writing-JK boys and girls
· Writer’s Workshop Format
o Pix of SK-Melody-explanation
o Video
· Turn/talk/share
· Any great ideas?
Break-cupcakes, salty snack and drinks 20 minutes
Reading
Resources-comprehension toolkit, reading with meaning, literacy development in the early years, benchmark kit
Leveled readers-guided reading, benchmarking, running records-small group
· Integrated Unit Studies
· Shared Reading –stories you are reading aloud, interactive, turn and talk,
Comprehension toolkit
o Background knowledge
o New learning
o Text to self connections
o Text to text connections
o Wondering
o Non-fiction features
o Inferring-a wee bit
o Anchor charts-make learning visible
· Turn/Talk/Share
· Any great ideas?
Wrap Up
Harvard Thinking Routine: I Used to Think…Now I Think…
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