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This standards based interactive workshop will show you strategies and activities designed to help your students achieve higher scores on both the Language Arts and Math state tests! This workshop is filled with practical tips that can be easily implemented in your classes. Samples of student work will be shared. Learn how to structure your instructional activities with new strategies. Many helpful handouts are included. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Art, music, physical education, and technology teachers will become familiar with the requirements of this test and learn how they can contribute to student success. (Doherty & Jaffe)
In this interactive workshop, teachers will learn strategies for using children’s literature and writing activities as springboards to success in math. Presenters will model math activities based on topics from a variety of popular children’s books. They will also share examples of how writing about math improves comprehension. A great collection of high-interest, easy to use handouts is included.
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This hands-on workshop will provide practical strategies to help you incorporate literature circles into your reading and writing program. Several models of literature circles will be presented and handouts will be provided for classroom use. The workshop is based on our book, Succeeding With Literature Circles. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Learn valuable strategies to help you develop confident and creative writers. The Six Plus One Writing Traits are flexible and easy to implement, and they work well with existing curriculum and materials. These strategies will also help you to guide and assess writing instruction and prepare students for success in state and standardized testing (Doherty & Jaffe)
During this hands-on workshop, teachers will discover dozens of research-based reading techniques that will make reading more meaningful and enjoyable for their students. Participants will learn the key elements of a comprehensive reading program and how to implement strategic reading skills into their daily reading instruction periods. Strategies to use before, during, and after reading will be demonstrated. A handbook of engaging activities will be distributed to all. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Half-day
Learn how to strengthen your students’ reading rate with a wide variety of fluency lessons, strategies, and activities that work for small group instruction, whole class instruction, or one-to- one instruction. Techniques for improving phrasing, expression, and intonation will be demonstrated and discussed. These activities can be easily integrated into your existing reading instruction and are effective in helping students read with ease, confidence, and understanding. Useful handout materials will be included in the presentation. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Half-day
This workshop presentation focuses on developing vocabulary- building skills by demonstrating outstanding strategies for expanding students’ reading vocabularies. As students increase their reading vocabularies, they improve their ability to read more fluently and with greater comprehension. Techniques to successfully combine vocabulary building with writing skills will also be shown. Teachers of small group as well as whole class instruction will benefit from this workshop. Practical handout materials are included. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Full-day
The ability to comprehend nonfiction information effectively is critical in our world today. Improve your students’ abilities to comprehend and respond to nonfiction by learning research-based techniques that will help you to accomplish this goal. The strategies demonstrated can be used to enrich units in a variety of content areas. You will acquire ideas and strategies to prepare students for nonfiction by developing their vocabulary, knowledge, and prediction capabilities. The presenters will demonstrate a variety of crucial reading and writing skills to help students evaluate and interpret information. Through small group or partner discussions, students will increase their skills in critical thinking. Handout materials accompany this presentation. (Doherty & Jaffe)
Full-day
Add to your Basic Skills Instruction tool box with these effective and motivating activities. Presenters will share projects, games, and center ideas that will help you to instruct and reinforce math and language arts concepts. All the standards-based activities used in this workshop have been classroom-tested and can easily be implemented into any program. Handout descriptions of the activities are included. (Doherty & Jaffe)
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