In just one day, Julie Lay will teach you how to:

• Use proven practices and organizational strategies you can use right away to create a powerful kindergarten writing workshop model.

• Create a culture of motivated writers and illustrators who LOVE writing workshop!

• Provide illustration study and guided drawing lessons. Students will amaze you!

• Teach children to use speech bubbles and delight in the sounds of language.

• Seamlessly incorporate vocabulary development and build voracious vocabulary learners.

• Understand the stages of early writing development and how to provide appropriate assessment, scaffolding, and minilessons.

• Implement simple strategies to publish kindergartners’ writing and honor young authors.

• Simultaneously incorporate multisensory ABC Phonics Immersion, fingerspelling, "heart words", and handwriting into a comprehensive writing program.

• Use writing-to-read strategies across the curriculum that connect with ELA Common Core Writing Standards.