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Literacy In
Residence
(all-inclusive fee structure)
strategic. job-embedded. personal |
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Target Audience:
teachers,
literacy coaches,
reading specialists,
Title I staff,
paraprofessionals,
principals
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Description
- 3
In Residence Days with a Learning
Unlimited Literacy Professional with the
staff in your school.
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Partnering with you, we'll plan the
literacy-rich days to meet your literacy
and schoolwide goals!
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Receive complimentary professional
books, children's literature,
publications, and other literacy
materials.
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Elementary
Literacy Workshops |
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Target Audience:
teachers,
literacy coaches,
reading specialists,
Title I staff,
paraprofessionals,
principals
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Topics (click on the topic to read complete descriptions below)
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Comprehensive
Literacy Framework |
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The Comprehensive
Literacy Classroom
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What does a
classroom look like
that supports a
comprehensive (or
balanced) literacy
framework? This
workshop will focus
on the pieces that
make up and support
a comprehensive
literacy classroom.
These include:
reading (guided,
shared, interactive,
independent),
writing (guided,
shared, interactive,
independent),
environment,
(classroom library),
independent work
(literacy
workstations), and
social structures
(buddy and
paired reading) that
support a
comprehensive
literacy classroom.
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Guided Reading: Putting the Pieces Together
- Guided
reading or meeting with children in
small, teacher-guided groups, can be
overwhelming to teachers! This workshop
is focused on: what guided reading looks
like, what takes place within the
teacher-guided group, and the elements
that support guided reading (classroom
libraries, social structures, literacy
workstations).
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Designing
Literacy-Rich
Classrooms
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Literacy-rich
classroom support a
comprehensive
(balanced) literacy
framework by helping
children explore and
engage in literacy
activities
throughout the day.
This workshop shows
and explores many
examples of what a
literacy-rich
environment looks
likes and how it
supports reading,
writing, and
speaking -- all
important in a
comprehensive
literacy framework!
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Classroom
Libraries |
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Building Effective
Classroom Libraries
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Students will read
40-60% more when
classrooms provide
engaging and
enriching selections
from which they can
choose books! Learn the
research-based
premises for
building effective
classroom libraries!
Learn how to develop,
display, and
organize
a diverse library
that students will
use, enjoy, and read
more!
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Comprehension |
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Comprehension
Development in
Emerging Readers
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In this workshop,
Dr. Tyson takes an
in-depth look at the
special needs of
emerging readers.
Teachers learn how
to hook young
children into
reading and how to
develop
comprehension with
beginning readers!
Teachers will
explore and practice
how to engage
readers before,
during, and after
reading!
Research-based
strategies are
suitable for
individuals, small
group of readers, and
whole group
activities.
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Research-Based
Strategies for
Developing
Comprehension
Before, During & After Reading
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Children need
engaging strategies
useful for before,
during, and after
reading text. In
this session, we'll
explore
research-based
strategies proven
for raising
awareness and
increasing
comprehension
developing readers.
Participants will
see strategies
modeled with
children's texts, as
well as receive many
handouts and
templates
ready-to-use in the
classroom and
training suggestions
useful for your
classroom!
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Engaging Young
Readers:
Comprehension
Strategies that
Work!
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Looking for ways
to engage
readers in the
classroom? This
session will
focus on
strategies that
hook children
and lead to
better reading
comprehension.
Learn effective
teaching/learning
strategies-specific
to before
reading, during
reading, and
after reading-that
enhance
comprehension
whether used
with one child
or an entire
class.
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Literacy Work Stations |
- Literacy
Work Stations: How to Support a
Balanced Literacy Framework
- Learn
how Literacy Work Stations can support a
balanced literacy framework in the
classroom. Participants will learn
how to develop work stations to support
reading and writing activities in the
classroom! Learn how they can support
and encourage reading and writing
engagement in your setting.
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Literature Circles
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- Literature Circles:
Engaging Readers
in a
Student-Centered
Classroom
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Circles - a "best
practice" strategy
for bringing
independent reading
and collaborative
learning together --
will be modeled and shown in a video in
this dynamic session.
If you are looking
for a way to engage
students in the
reading and
discussion process
this workshop is for
you! Dr. Tyson has
successfully worked
side by side with
teachers in
transforming
language arts
classrooms with this
dynamic,
student-centered
approach. Teachers
will learn the five
key roles, how to
select books,
training methods,
and watch a
literature circle in
action as well as
engage in their own
circle during the
workshop.
Many
handouts and
templates for use in
the classroom are on
the website for teacher use following
the workshop!
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Phonemic Awareness and
Phonics |
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Phonemic Awareness & Phonics:
What's the Same & What's Not!
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Phonemic
Awareness and
phonics instruction
are two essential
components of an
effective literacy
program. Sometimes
it's easy to confuse
them...but, in fact,
they are separate
and discreet skills.
In this engaging
workshop, teachers
will learn how to
promote phonemic
awareness in
emerging readers and
step up to phonics
instruction when
children clearly
understand sounds,
rimes, and language
patterns.
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Developing Phonemic
Awareness and
Phonics in Emerging
Readers
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Phonemic Awareness,
all too often
glossed over in the
early literacy
program, in the
emphasis of this
engaging program.
The emphasis of this
program is engaging
phonemic awareness
activities
appropriate for
emerging readers.
Learn how phonics
instruction overlays
good phonemic
awareness
instructional
strategies.
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Reading Fluency |
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The Relationship between Reading
Fluency and Comprehension
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This workshop takes
teacher in-depth
exploring the
relationship between
reading fluency and
comprehension.
Reading fluency is
the link between
word recognition and
comprehension.
Teachers will learn
strategies for
improving reading
fluency with all
students and
specifically
struggling readers.
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Fluency Development:
Strategies that Work
in Real Classrooms
with Real Kids!
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Want to do something
other than "round
robin" reading? Then
this workshop is for
you! Based on much
of Tim Rasinski's
fluency work, this
workshop will
explore whole and
small group fluency
strategies. Learn
how the Fluency
Development Lesson
can make a
difference in your
classroom.
Teachers will walk
about with lots of
direct strategies
that can spice up
the classroom and
help kids learn to
read fluently.
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SBRR |
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SBRR: The Five Best Practices
for Teaching Reading
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The Fab 5: An Overview of the
Five Essential Components of
Reading
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SBRR -
Scientifically Based
Reading Research
points to five best
practices that work
best when teaching
children to read. In
this engaging
workshop, Dr. Tyson
will explore the
five best practices:
phonemic awareness,
phonics, reading
fluency, vocabulary,
and comprehension.
For each strategy,
learn what it is,
why it's important,
and what works in
the classroom-practical
strategies that are
easy to use in the
classroom.
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Struggling Readers |
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Top 10 Strategies for the
Struggling Reader that you
can use tomorrow!
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The struggling reader
sits in every one of our
classrooms. In this
session, learn how to
work with that child.
Information shared
includes: (1) how to
administer a "quick" and
"dirty" Informal Reading
Inventory (IRI); (2) why
the listening-level IRI
is so important; and (3)
strategies that can help
the struggling reader
become more independent
and feel successful.
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Vocabulary |
- Top 10 Ways to Develop
Vocabulary in the Classroom
and Out!
- Has vocabulary
gotten to be the "same
old thing" in your
classroom? Spice it up
with research-based
practical vocabulary
strategies that best
promote vocabulary
development in and
out of the
classroom! This session
includes: (1) the three
areas of vocabulary that
should be taught in the
classroom; (2) affective
(subjective association)
vocabulary strategies;
and (3) physical-sensory
(motor) approaches to
teaching and vocabulary.
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Middle
School & High School Literacy Workshops |
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Target Audience:
classroom teachers,
literacy coaches,
principals
- Workshop
Areas (see complete descriptions below)
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Content-Area Reading |
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Reading and Learning
in the Content
Areas: Strategies
for Engaging
Students in Middle
and High School
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Middle and High
School reading and
learning demands are
profoundly different
than in the lower
grades. Teacher may
not be a "reading
teacher"-but they
are responsible for
having students read
and learn in their
content. This
workshop explores
instructional
strategies and total
lesson designs that
promote reading,
thinking, and
learning in the
content areas.
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I Read It But I
Can't Understand It:
Helping Middle and
High School Kids
Make Sense of Their
Textbooks
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The reading demands
change as children
advance in school.
This workshop
explores text-based
strategies for
students to make
meaning of text.
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Literature Circles
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Literature Circles -
a "best practice"
strategy that can be
used in any content
area is perfect for
middle and high
school classrooms!
If you are looking
for a way to engage
students in the
reading and
discussion process
this workshop is for
you! Dr. Tyson has
successfully worked
side by side with
teachers in
transforming
language arts
classrooms with this
dynamic,
student-centered
approach. Teachers
will learn the five
key roles, how to
select books,
training methods,
and watch a
literature circle in
action as well as
engage in their own
circle during the
workshop.
Many
handouts and
templates for use in
the classroom are on
the website for
teacher use
following the
workshop!
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Vocabulary |
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content-area vocabulary
is essential for
students to master in
middle and high school
classrooms! Learn how to
help your students
master vocabulary with
linguistic and
non-linguistic
strategies! Spice it up
with research-based
practical vocabulary
strategies that best
promote vocabulary
development in
and out of the
classroom! This session
includes: (1) the three
areas of vocabulary that
should be taught in the
classroom; (2) affective
(subjective association)
vocabulary strategies;
and (3) physical-sensory
(motor) approaches to
teaching and vocabulary.
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