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March 8
Michael W. Smith
The Elephant at the Party: Grammar and the Teaching of Writing
VRI at UVM, Montpelier
12:30-3:30
It’s rare for educational research to be absolutely unambiguous, but that’s the case when it comes to research on the effectiveness of teaching traditional school grammar (the labeling of parts of speech, parts of sentences, and so on). We know that it doesn’t help kids write better or more correctly. In this workshop, we’ll explore alternative approaches to teaching correctness, focusing especially how to teach what most needs to be taught in a way that kids will learn and remember.
Cost: $125 (FREE for LLI and VALLI Members)
March 25 & 26
Nancy Woods & Cathy White
Readers Workshop II*
VRI at UVM, Montpelier
8:30-3:00
These sessions are for Gr. 2-8 teachers currently implementing a Reading Workshop Model in their classroom. Participants will delve into implementation details and Reading Workshop dilemmas. Opportunities to share experiences and problem- solving issues with others presently implementing the model will be included. We will practice instructional techniques and models and clips of classrooms will be viewed to provide experiences to enhance existing Reading Workshops. Participants will receive a professional resource to support the content presented.
Cost: $175
March 29 & 30
Kathleen Brinegar, Kristin Johnson, Alysia Backman
Struggling Readers in Middle and High School
Rutland Holiday Inn, Rutland
8:30-3:00
Day One will focus on the following question: Who are struggling adolescent readers and how do we reach them in our classrooms? Alysia Backman from South Burlington High School will lead discussions around the terms alliterate and illiterate and what it means to motivate and engage adolescent learners. Along with some colleagues, she will also share ways in which classroom teachers and specialists can collaborate to meet student needs. Finally, Kathleen Brinegar and Mary Beth Monahan from the Vermont Reads Institute will share strategies that middle and high school classrooms teachers can use to support struggling students within their content area classes. Day Two will focus on intervention models for struggling adolescent learners. Kristin Johnson from Champlain Valley Union High School will describe their non-Special Education Intervention model through the sharing of student literacy portfolios. She will also walk participants through the diagnostic procedures she uses to set individual goals for students. Dana Cray from Middlebury Union Middle School will provide a middle school perspective by presenting how she developed and implemented an intervention program for her 7/8 grade struggling readers.
Cost: $125 (FREE for VALLI Members)
April 1
Linda Dorn
Response to Intervention:
A Systemic and Comprehensive Design for Increasing Literacy Achievement***
Burlington, Doubletree
8:30-3:00
This session describes a comprehensive intervention model as a systemic RtI method. With professional learning at its core, the model integrates research on effective practices, alignment of classroom and supplemental programs, a portfolio of small group interventions for struggling readers, and a decision-making framework for selecting interventions and monitoring student progress. The RtI method will be illustrated by examples from schools, including planning tools, intervention frameworks, and videos of collaborative conferences and intervention team meetings. Linda Dorn is a Professor of Reading and Director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has presented keynote addresses and featured sessions at international, national, and state conferences. She has worked with state departments, universities, and school districts across the country on implementing comprehensive literacy programs. She has published widely, including four books (Stenhouse), journal articles, teaching materials, book chapters, and media productions. Her upcoming book with Allyn & Bacon is Interventions that Work: A Comprehensive Intervention Model for Reversing Reading Failure.
Cost: $150 (Free for LLI members and Reading First Coaches and Coordinators)
April 7 & 8; May 4 & 5
Pam Chomsky-Higgins & Cathy White
Spring Reading Academy
VRI at UVM, Montpelier
8:30-3:00
In this 4 day workshop, classroom teachers (k-3), special educators, reading specialists, administrators, supervisors and other resource staff will deepen their understanding of the 5 essential components of reading in grades K-3: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Comprehension, Fluency, and Vocabulary. Over the course of the 4 days, participants will expand their repertoire of research-based instructional approaches to help students achieve Grade Level Expectations. The instructors will provide opportunities to practice several approaches with colleagues, and help teachers plan for classroom application.
Cost: $250 (FREE for Reading First Schools)
May 13 & 14
Mary Beth Monahan & Kathleen Harrington
Writers’ Workshop II
VRI at UVM, Montpelier
8:30-3:00
This session is a continuation of “Launching Writer’s Workshop,” which was presented at the VRI Summer Institute in August 2009 and again in Montpelier in October 2010. Participants are asked to bring their own writer’s notebooks as well as student work samples to share. On day one, we will follow up on work with the writer’s notebook—debriefing on participants’ efforts to implement writer’s notebooks, collaboratively troubleshooting about that implementation process and focusing on strategies for moving from the notebook to drafting to going public with finished pieces of writing. We will try out strategies for finding seed ideas in the notebook, developing / expanding those ideas, and drafting. We will explore the role/responsibilities of the teacher and students in each phase of this process. On day two, we will focus on revision and editing strategies. We’ll explore the research and practices on teaching students about the conventions of language so that their writing achieves its purpose and has the desired impact on their intended audience.
Cost: $175
* These workshops can be taken as a series for three UVM credits.
*** These workshops can be taken as a series for one UVM credit.
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