K-1 Getting Ready to Write or Sentence A Day

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Getting Ready to Write – K-1 Foundational Writing Skills Workshop (6 hours)

WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Age-appropriate, instructional tools to effectively teach your youngest (K-1) students the foundational skills they need to become strong writers. You’ll be introduced to the developmental stages of writing, learn to teach your students how to identify genre and author’s purpose, and develop the foundational skills of narrative, informational and opinion writing. Through this training, you will gain confidence in your writing instruction, and develop the writing/reading connection for your students across all content areas.

HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
•  Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre;
  inform vs. entertain purpose)
•  Summarizing Text
•  Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development

• Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
•  Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
•  Generating Elaborative Detail
•  Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?”
•  Crafting Suspenseful Segments

• Sorting Details for Informational Writing
• Creating Diagrams to Inform
•  Writing Informational Sentences
•  Exploring Opinion Writing
•  Summarizing Opinion Pieces
•  Recap of Today’s Learning – Foundational Writing Skills for K-1 Students
  
  BONUS Training (Recorded) – The Developmental Stages of Writing. This pre-recorded instructional session features EW’s Master Educators providing you with a deeper dive into the stages of writing. It also includes a PowerPoint presentation that highlights key aspects of this learning
  
  

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Sentence A Day (3 hours)

WHO: Teachers, Grades K-2

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Kindergarten,1st and 2nd grade educators will learn to implement our A Sentence A Day resource.  Instruction includes a weekly guide on how to establish meaningful routines in the primary classroom that focus on writing sentences, building powerful vocabulary, and learning grammar and conventions. Each week of instruction includes a theme and is often useful for building awareness of story. The Professional Development course will include connections to Kindergarten and 1st GradesGetting to Write resources and Grade 2 genre specific writing resources. Our digitalA Sentence A Dayresource, available in the HUB, includes bonus content in the form of PowerPoints, and will be introduced during the course. Join our master educators for this comprehensive Professional Development course to successfully implement A Sentence a Day. 

How to get this Training: