Details

• Target Audience: K-8 teachers, literacy coaches, reading specialists, principals
• Location:  Junior Achievement Center, Indianapolis, IN
  • www.jaindy.org   (directions on JA website)
• Date:  Thursday, August 28th
• Time:  8:30 - 3:00 p.m.
• Registration:
  • Earlybird: $135.00 individuals                          (postmarked by August 11th)
  • Standard: $150.00 individuals                         (postmarked after August 11th)
  • School Teams Discount - groups of 3 or more from your school - receive $10.00 off each registration (check box on form and send registrations together)
  • Registration includes:
    • all workshop materials & many re-usable templates
    • entry into complimentary give-a-way's
    • breakfast pastries, beverages all day, afternoon snack (lunch on your own)

           

• Launch the school year with a successful, engaging, and purposeful literacy block - reading and writing workshop! Join us for this fast-paced session - chock full of practical strategies! This session will focus on instructional strategies and management tips to support a successful literacy block - the largest chunk of the day!
• Participants will:
  • see how a literacy-rich classroom and library supports the literacy block;
  • learn how to integrate picture books to serve as anchors for reading and writing;
  • practice "unpacking" picture books to integrate with reading and writing lessons;
  • participate in a mini-lesson and "unpack" the mini-lesson framework for reading and writing;
  • explore key instructional and independent learning strategies;
  • understand how to use "anchor texts" and "anchor charts" to support reading and writing;
  • explore easy-to-implement management and procedural strategies;
  • view and explore the best professional resources that support the literacy block; and
  • receive many templates and have access to them during the year at the Learning Unlimited website!