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Sessions:

***Session 1 Title: Bringing Strategies to Life: Reading with Accuracy and Fluency

Description: Drawing from Jen’s best-selling resources on the teaching of reading, this workshop will help you to become adept at assessing and teaching to support students' accuracy and fluency through conferences and small group instruction.

You will explore strategies for supporting reading with accuracy and fluency using skills progression for thinking about how the work becomes more sophisticated over time.

Video and text examples will be used to show, not just tell. With an emphasis on practicality, you'll be able to turn what you learned around into action immediately.

***Session 2 Title: Teaching Writing in Small Groups

Description: Drawing from Jennifer Serravallo's Teaching Writing in Small Groups as well as The Writing Strategies Book, this workshop will show you how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students.

The emphasis will be in essential practices for optimizing small groups that will help you value each child's language and literacy practices, develop relationships with your writers, teach with efficiency, improve independence, and more.

The engaging videos and Jen's ability to break down complex concepts into actionable, doable steps will equip participants to be able to try out the ideas right away.