During This Professional Development You Will Learn:

• How to raise your expectations and teach joyfully.
• What kindergarten writing standards look like and how to scaffold success for ALL learners.
• How to talk to young writers and why ALL learners deserve our highest expectation. •
• Fluency-building strategies with high-frequency "heart words" and sentences.
• How to organize and introduce favorite Independent Writing Center Totes.

“We can choose to spoon-feed our children or we can teach them to be independent, self-regulated learners.”  - NE

• Essential components of a Comprehensive Writing Workshop Model with a rich oral language foundation.
• Strategies for teaching children to make three kinds of "Really Cool Books." (You will have samples of these books in your gift folder.)
• How to use mentor texts, poetry, and songs to build oral language patterns for narrative, opinion, and information writing.
• Key principles to organizing writing workshop folders, creating Science Notebooks, and implementing Weekend News Journals.
• How to publish children’s books and honor kindergarten writers: from impromptu celebrations to “sitting in the author’s chair!”
• Proven strategies for turning kindergartners into researchers who do “really big work.”
• Practical and engaging ways to involve Parents as Partners in providing drawing and writing activities at home.
• Authentic assessment practices that inform instruction!

"Superb! The most useful and practical seminar I have had in over 20+ years.
It takes the scare out of the Common Core."

"…the most engaging and informative seminar I have ever been to."
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