Informational Writing

Learn to confidently teach writing, improve student performance,
and maximize your instructional time

Teach Your Students the Foundational Skills to Effectively Respond to Text

Starting New or Need a Refresher? Here is the PD and resources you need.

Launching into Literacy – Diving into Informational Skills Workshop (6 hours)

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis skills to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work. Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text.

HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Launching into Literacy

Understanding EW’s Methodology and
how it creates writing success
Recognizing Genre
Identifying Organizational Frameworks
(e.g., Informational vs. Narrative)
Learning How to Annotate and Analyze Text
Finding Literary Elements for Literary Analysis
Identifying Text Conventions (clues) for Constructed Response

Part 2 - Informational Skills

Developing Broad, yet Distinct Main Ideas
Applying Detail-Generating Questions
Widening Sentence Variety
Conducting/referencing Research
Building Introductions and Conclusions

Part 3– Putting It All Together

Practicing Process Writing
Forming Assessment Rubrics
Recap of Today’s Learning – Informational Writing

Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this
writing workshop.

How to get this Training:

Individual - 6 hours with live trainer at hosted venue or asynchronously on your own time

Group - School or District on your schedule:

Launching into Literacy – Diving into Informational Skills Workshop (6 hours)

$175 USD/pp - Registration Only (you already have the required writing resource)
$274 USD/pp Registration with digital HUB writing resource (required if you do not already have a resource)
$315 USD/pp Registration with printed HUB writing resource (required if you do not already have a resource)

Digital Format - The HUB

Printed Format

Click here to see an example Field Trip from the HUB

Click here to see an example Narrated Text Student Pages from the HUB

Click here to see an example of an Informational Grade 4 guide

The Hub subscription includes:

Enhanced digital replicas of time-tested EW instructional materials
Professional development videos on the foundational skills taught by EW certified instructors
Virtual Field Trips that provide background for text annotation and analysis
Skill Power! PowerPoints to introduce the foundational skills
New ways to engage students and appeal to every learning style including interactive student pages

$99 USD
$155 with a second Genre guide (Narrative, Informational, K-1, Argumentative) *Subscription active for a year from date of purchase

This guide includes all foundational informational/expository and opinion writing skills, strategies, lesson plans, reproducible/projectable student pages, sample texts and exemplars necessary for effective expository, opinion, and response to text writing. A strong reading-writing connection is established throughout, and offers multiple opportunities for deconstructing, analyzing and annotating texts in order to prepare students to write in response to them. Also includes research skills, note-taking, and how to cite textual evidence without plagiarizing.

$140 USD (handling fee added for orders outside US)

Your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for full year from date of purchase. wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase. Your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a \Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase. wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase.