LIT01 Games, Gizmos and Gadgets Galore
Lucia D’Arrisso and Wendy Wade
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NEW All
This session will demonstrate how games, gizmos and gadgets will broaden your students love of literacy and motivate their learning. Race against the clock, buzz in and swat around a few ideas. Participants will have an opportunity to experience first hand some new and unique activities, inventions and gadgets. A handout will be provided and some make and take will be offered during this session. A materials fee of $10.00 will be collected at the session.
LIT02 High Yield Strategies that Teach Children to Read!
Jane McGarvey and Laura Robbins
Monday, August 18 and Tuesday, August 19, 2008
NEW JK to Grade 4, SERTS
Children learn to read in 3 ways: applying knowledge of phonemes to letters; recognizing orthographic patterns in words; and memorizing sight words. In this highly, practical session teachers will walk away with a package high yield strategies and activities for each. These activities include a logical systematic approach to teach decoding and encoding a list of true sight words and activities based on PM Books (1-26) and lists and activities for the most common orthographic patterns in PM Books.
LIT03 Linking Comprehension Strategies, 6+1 Writing Traits and Higher Level Thinking Responses to Picture Books
Jane McGarvey and Laura Robbins
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NEW Grade 1 to 6, SERTS
This highly practical session promises to deliver! Teachers will walk away with a list of 20+ highly recommended Canadian picture books and a package of matching activities for each. These activities include Debbie Miller’s comprehension Strategies; 6+1 Writing Trait prompts and tasks that promote rich responses and higher level thinking i.e. use information from the selection and your own ideas to support your answer – an EQAO favourite!
LIT05 Literacy – Teaching Writing in SK
Natalie Masucci
Thursday, August 14, 2008
NEW Senior Kindergarten
The senior kindergarten day is hectic. A well devised and balanced daily and weekly plan can make all the difference. Learn how to use the Lucy Calkins Resource Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum to teach writing skill sin your senior kindergarten class. Learn time saving tricks when assessing student’s literacy skills using the 'Students' to Watch' program. Participants should bring the Lucy Calkin’s resource if possible.
LIT06 Passionate Readers: Literature Circles in the Intermediate Grades
Cristine Dimeropolous and Vickie Morgado
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NEW Intermediate
In this interactive, one day session you will learn how to integrate Literature Circles into your intermediate classroom using a variety of genres including poetry, novels, short stories and even informational texts. You will have an opportunity to participate in literature circle roles and learn how to integrate aspects of Think Literacy and CASI documents into your literature circle program. You will also receive an extensive resource package that includes reproducible, ready-made role cards and rubrics based on Ontario Language expectations. By incorporating Literacy Circles into your language program you will enable your students not only to learn but also become passionate readers.
LIT07 Putting Classroom Profiles Into Practice in a Balanced Literacy Classroom
Gina Marion, Shirley Silva and Anna Tardella
Wednesday, August 20 and Thursday, August 21, 2008
NEW Grade 1 to 3
A practical hands-on session! Learn how to set up a class profile to identify student needs and use the data to
plan for instruction in a balanced literacy framework. You will create a classroom profile folder, receive
sample assessments, learn how to effectively administer and analyze a PM Benchmark reading record. With
grade level colleagues plan mini-lessons and routines that will set your literacy program up for a successful
beginning to the school year!
LIT08 Reading Workshop
Terri Ball and Margaret D’Agostino
Thursday, August 14, 2008
NEW Grade 1 to 3
If you are looking for a way to fit all the components of reading into your schedule, this session is for you. You will be given a general overview of read aloud, shared reading, guided reading and independent reading. Focus will be on what each component looks like in an elementary classroom setting, what teacher and students are doing during each and how they fit into a reading workshop time frame. You will be guided through all the aspects of reading workshop, provided with suggestions on developing mini lessons to meet the need of your class and go over a sample schedule of how reading workshop fits into the two hour literacy block.
LIT09 Shared Reading
Joanne Igercich, Sandra Mirabelli and Celiza Ribeiro
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
NEW Junior Funded by the Ministry
In 2005-2006, the Ministry of Education identified Shared Reading as being a high-yield instructional approach for junior learners. Shared Reading was mandated to become part of daily literacy practice in grades 4 to 6.
In this FREE session Shared Reading is a highly inclusive whole-group approach to supporting the developing reader. It is a gateway to responding to student data in just 15 minutes a day. Participants in this session will come to understand how Shared Reading helps to move students from their literal interpretation of text to a more complex level. This instructional approach will be deconstructed through a live demonstration, provision of planning templates, discussion of resources and an unpacking of key resources in the Guides to Effective Instruction.
LIT11 Word Study in the Junior Classroom
Joanne Igercich, Sandra Mirabelli and Celiza Ribeiro
Thursday, August 14, 2008
NEW Junior
“Learning about words is not a simple matter of committing them to memory, like entering them into a computer… Concepts intermingle; they flow and blend into one another. We learn about words by comparing, contrasting, and combining them. As teachers we need to make Word Study active, so that students not only expand their knowledge of words but make the powerful connections they need to understand the internal structures of words as well as their shades of meaning.” (Fountas & Pinnell in Guiding Readers and Writers: Grades 3-6, p. 377)
This session will support participants in engaging their students in meaningful activities that promote the development of word knowledge. Participants will receive copies of sample hands-on activities that can easily be incorporated into their daily literacy practice.
LIT12 Writing Cycle
Joanne Igercich, Sandra Mirabelli and Celiza Ribeiro
Friday, August 15, 2008
NEW Junior
This session will focus on planning and teaching a cycle of writing over a 4 to 6 week period. Participants will learn how to immerse students into a particular form of writing and how to support students in developing their writing abilities. The instructional approaches of modeled, shared and guided writing will be addressed. This session will help teachers to understand how form, process and traits are connected.
Please note: This is a repeat of Writing Session #2 which was offered to staffs of Intensive Support Schools in 2007-2008.
LIT13 Writing, Using the Lucy Calkins Units of Study
Alice Burgess and Margaret D’Agostino
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
NEW Junior Kindergarten to Grade 2
Using the Lucy Calkins Units of Study, this session will lead you through a step-by-step look into the writing workshop model. This session is designed to give you a practical overview of the Lucy Calkins approach to writing using the personal narrative or small moments model. A complete open response method will be presented within a balance literacy framework.