Examples of 10 Hour Reading Methods CEU workshops:
Workshop: "Playful Methods of Reading Analysis"
Audience: K-8 teaching professionals
Course Description:
How do you get children beyond their typical description: “it was a good
book?” We use current and classic picture books for all ages - large and small
groups examine what makes books work by experimenting with a variety of techniques.
Methods
include:
- winning books by defining writing structure and style terms
- comparing "good" and "bad" books
- collaborating on a list of "good book" criteria
- using student-centered rubrics to evaluate and discuss organization, ideas, word choices and voice.
Workshop: "Methods of Early Reading and Writing"
Audience: K-2 teaching professionals/ teachers of learning-different
students
Course Description:
How do you teach young children to read, write and understand the connection
between reading and writing? Playful, interactive methods help teachers
examine different facets of reading.
Methods include:
- activities to amp up creative and logical story responses
- using the image of a "Story Train" to keep students "on track" as they examine fiction and non-fiction picture books.
Workshop: "Reading Methods Reach Across Curriculum"
Audience: K-8 Teaching Professionals
Course Description:
Start with a pile of current fiction and non-fiction books. Organize teachers
in teams of “specialists” to examine and evaluate these books in terms of art,
social studies, science, language arts curriculum. Together the teams
develop a useful bibliography that reaches across the curriculum.
Workshop Title: "Reading Methods to Analyze Current Books"
Course Description:
Book reviewer, Susie Wilde, will spend the pre-class
month collecting envelopes and boxes of books that come daily to her home.
She will bring these to class with a list of activities that will lead participants
to examine a host of new children’s books and to evaluate the possibilities
of these new books in motivating, understanding and creating activities
for reading.
Examples of shorter workshops:
Workshop Title: "Think, Wonder, Risk: Methods to Hook
Students on Books and Set the Tone for a Literature-Linked Classroom"
Audience: K-8 teaching professionals
Course Description:
In classrooms across the country, children struggle to think, wonder and risk. This
workshop combines examining current books with two easy-to-do activities that
take students directly into higher order thinking that help them wonder and encourage
left-brain thinking. Because these activities have no wrong answers,
risk-taking is a natural outcome!
Length of Presentation Time: 75 minutes to 3 hours
Workshop Title: "Supporting Details: Show Don’t Tell"
Grade Levels: 3-6
Course Description:
What makes stories come alive? Supporting details in stories invite readers
to become part of the story. All students know the term "supporting details",
but can they find and create them? They certainly can once they learn
to Slurp Horrible Fish Juice! This mnemonic helps students enter a scene
so that they see, hear, feel and find juicy words the author uses to make
scenes dynamic. Using picture books, workshop participants come to understand
the power of this technique. In a final challenge, participants work in
small teams applying these concepts as they turn "telling statements" into
vivid writing and compete in a "Show Not Tell Showdown".
Length of Presentation Time: 75 minutes to 3 hours
Another Presentation Possibility
On-the-Job Professional Development Literacy Methods Workshops
Audience: K-8 teaching professionals
Course Description:
I model a variety of reading methods with students in classrooms, demonstrating
ways to help them understand structure and style in reading and writing.
Attending teachers observe these techniques, then practice them in small
groups. This can be offered as a one-day workshop, or a series of workshops
that may go on for more than a month. If offered in a series, teacher use these
reading methods in their classrooms and bring reflections and evaluations
to the next session. Included in each session will be a short period of time
for explanation, teacher discussion, questions and problem-solving. Methods
modeled include: setting a literacy environment, writing organization, "show,
not tell" writing, reading and writing evaluation with student-centered rubrics.
Length of Presentation Time: 1 day – 4 weeks
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