| Lee Ann Spillane |
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Finding the Magic Peer to Peer: Successful Literature Circle Strategies for All From pre-circle book talks to post reading assessments, learn successful management tools that support students learning through literature circles. How should students choose literature circle texts? When and how should students complete “role” sheets? We will discuss and managing, adapting and finally abandoning role sheets as we practice literature circles with contemporary nonfiction pieces. Leave this workshop with record keeping and assessment ideas that will lead to literature circle success. Reading Rocks! How Can You Make Independent Reading Work with Nonfiction? How can you encourage students to read nonfiction on their own? What should you be doing while students are reading independently? Join us to explore answers to these questions. From the pre-reading book talk to the post-reading assessment, learn successful organizational and management tools that support independent reading. Learn how knowing students and modeling reading help teachers avoid common pitfalls of sustained silent reading time. Take home recordkeeping and assessment ideas that will organize and manage independent reading in any classroom. How Do You Know? Initial Assessments that Drive Instruction How do you assess what students know and are able to do? This workshop will explore the use of data snapshots, surveys, inventories, letters, and other initial assessments that help teachers build rapport and understand where their students are as instruction begins. Participants will examine sample assessments to create mock instructional plans for language arts students. During the workshop, we will brainstorm and discuss ways to assess students’ background knowledge, strengths, and needs across content areas and grade levels. Tools That Lead to Independence: Logs, Academic Journals & Graphic Organizers What is the “gradual release of responsibility”? How can I encourage students to think for themselves? We will discuss these questions by examining three tools: learning logs, academic journals, and graphic organizers. This workshop will offer hands-on practice with many of the tools used to teach vocabulary. Learn how flexible tools can help students regulate their own learning. Small groups will examine students’ academic journals. We will also discuss the purpose of logs, academic journals, and graphic organizers across content areas and grade levels. Grammar for Dummies! What is Teaching Grammar in Context?* What does teaching grammar in context look like? How much time does it take? In this workshop we will discuss what it means to teach grammar in context. Examine grammar through three lesson structures: deductive thinking exercises, mini-lessons, and extended mini-lessons. Participants will examine student writings and develop grammar mini-lessons. In addition, we will brainstorm ideas for helping students make grammar, and the rules of grammar, their own. * Repeated workshop Lee Ann's Bibliography Handout |
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