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Grades K-6 |
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Effective Reading Strategies for Struggling Students
Effective Reading Strategies for Struggling Students
Flexible Grouping
Writing Workshop
Guided Reading Instruction and Management
Content Area Reading and Study Strategies
Learning Centers
Managing a Wide Range of Learners
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Grades 1-3
Grades 4-6
Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6
Grades 1-6, Together or Split
Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6
Grades 4-6
Grades K-6, Together or Split
Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6 |
Middle School |
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Content Area Reading and Study Strategies
Reading with Middle School |
Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8 |
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Effective Reading Strategies for Struggling Students: Grades 1-3
Learn many strategies to help
increase the reading achievement
of your struggling students.
Key elements include:
* Building sight vocabulary
* Developing decoding abilities
* Monitoring comprehension using strategy cards
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Effective Reading Strategies for Struggling Students: Grades 4-6
Leave with a wealth of strategies to help increase the reading achievement of your older struggling students.
Key elements include:
*Strategies to increase comprehension
*Activities to strengthen vocabulary development
*Ideas to Increase decoding abilities
*Ways to self-monitor understanding
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Flexible Grouping: Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6
This workshop is designed to give effective and practical ways to implement flexible grouping. The following grouping methods will be explored: whole class, small groups, pairs, and individual learning situations. Emphasis will be placed on grouping within the language arts area.
Key elements include:
* How to keep a whole class attentive and interactive during instruction
* Keeping small groups flexible
* Management and scheduling of groups
* Instruction within different grouping situations
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Writing Workshop: Grades 1-6, Together or Split
Build an outstanding writing program that will enhance student achievement. Pat will share the important steps of the writing process as well as specific ideas and strategies to use at each step.
Key elements include:
* Helping students come up with topics
* How to introduce specific editing strategies
* How to introduce specific revising techniques
* Setting up and managing writers workshop
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Guided Reading Instruction and Management: Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6
Learn how to implement guided reading, the heart of a balanced literacy approach.
Key elements include:
*What happens during a guided reading lesson?
*Using powerful “coaching language”
*How to manage and schedule groups on a daily basis
*What other students do while the teacher is working with a group
* Using literacy centers
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Content Area Reading and Study Strategies: Grades 4-6
This workshop will give a repertoire of ideas, activities and strategies to help older students with organization, studying, and learning.
Key elements include:
*Differences between narrative and expository texts
*Vocabulary development
*Increasing comprehension
*Studying and learning new and difficult concepts
*Using graphic organizers in content areas as well as with novels
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Learning Centers: Grades
K-6, Together or Split
This workshop will show specifically how to organize and use learning centers in the classroom.
Key elements include:
*Meeting the needs of a variety of students through the utilization of learning centers
*Using materials and activities at each center that can be used with any theme
*How to set up centers so they are coordinated with school curriculum and district goals
*Management of centers on a daily basis
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Managing a Wide Range of Learners: Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6
This workshop will show how to differentiate instruction and assignments in order to meet the needs of a wide range of learners. Learn how to support the struggling students as well as challenge the proficient ones. Ideas, strategies and activities will be centered on the areas of reading and writing.
Key elements include:
*Assignments that foster active learning
*How to get students away from memorization of skills to utilization and application of them
*How to take assignments and adapt them to meet all needs and levels.
*How to use open-ended assignments and activities that can be used with any book and any level
*Helping students show what they know
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Content Area Reading and Study Strategies: Grades 6-8
This workshop will give a repertoire of ideas, activities and strategies to help older students with organization, studying, and learning.
Key elements include:
*Differences between narrative and expository texts
*Vocabulary development
*Increasing comprehension
*Studying and learning new and difficult concepts
*Using graphic organizers in content areas as well as with novels
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Reading with Middle School: Grades 6-8
This workshop will show specific ways to increase reading and writing achievement at the middle school level. Learn how to support struggling students as well as challenge proficient learners. Whole group and small group instruction will be discussed.
Key elements include:
*Organizing literature discussion groups
*Strategies to increase comprehension
*Assignments and ideas to increase vocabulary
*Ways to ensure that whole group instruction is interactive
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