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Launching into Literacy Gr 2-8 (2 hours)

Our Literacy Launch, as demonstrated in our HUB guides for our digital users, is now available to our print guide users as a 2 hour workshop. You can view, pause, and replay this content or break your learning into bite-size sections that work with your school schedule. This flexible format makes learning easy!

WHO: Printed guide users, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: At Empowering Writers, we continue to adapt our approach and teacher support to meet the changing needs in your classrooms and school districts. Our newly developed Literacy Launch is designed to capitalize on the writing/reading connection. Students will be introduced to each of the organizational structures, learn to summarize text, and internalize the annotation and analysis process for both narrative and informational/opinion texts. From here, teachers can seamlessly move into either narrative or informational/opinion skill development because your students have the foundation that informs their writing. The Literacy Launch makes every interaction with text, in all content areas, a proactive reading and writing experience.

HOW THE WORKSHOP BREAKS OUT:

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” discovery) for Constructed Response

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

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 a Narrative Grade 4 guide

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

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

Narrative - This grade-level specific guide includes all of the foundational narrative writing skills and provides everything you need to be successful at teaching narrative, personal experience and response to text writing. Teacher background, detailed lesson plans, reproducible/projectable student pages, sample texts and exemplars are included.

Informational - 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)

Explore Additional Narrative Resources For Your ClassroomYour 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. 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 \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 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.

Literacy Launch

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

Our Literacy Launch is now available as a 2 hour workshop.

How to get this Training:

Comprehensive Narrative & Informational Resources for the Literacy Launch

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