Join us for our full-day workshop series featuring keynote presentations with renowned literacy speakers. Afternoon breakout sessions will connect keynote topics and specific Common Core State Standards to classroom.
Where: NJCU Campus
When: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Who: K-8 Educators
Contact: cca@njcu.edu
REGISTER: www.regonline.com/njcu2015
Brochure: click HERE.
WORKSHOP DATES
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Making the Shifts: The Close Reading of Complex Texts, Lively Conversation about Important Ideas, and the Power of Student Responsibility
Harvey “Smokey” Daniels, Author and Consultant
In this session, we will first define and discuss the current shifts in literacy standards and classroom practices. Then, using a variety of engaging, contemporary texts, we will try out a number of practical strategies that can enhance students’ content comprehension, invite collaboration with classmates, and build knowledge about big ideas. The take-away: we can meet new standards when we find great short text, model our thinking for kids, shift responsibility to them, and take an inquiry approach to literacy.
DECEMBER 11, 2015
Support Children to Read Closely, Think Deeply, and Talk Expansively About Texts: The Dynamic Pairing of Shared Reading and Close Reading
Kathy Collins, Author and Consultant
When we think of shared reading, we typically think of Mrs. Wishy-Washy and enthusiastic kindergartners. In this session, Kathy will help to expand our vision of shared reading to include older students in addition to our youngest learners. Kathy will show a variety of ways to use shared reading to support children as they learn how to understand any text more deeply by reading more closely. Also, Kathy will provide ideas for helping children discuss texts with elaboration, evidence, and authenticity. She’ll share examples of work across grades and provide many ideas for how to implement a comprehensive, high level, yet child- centered shared reading time in classrooms across grade levels.
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Close Reading with Joy: Support Deep Thinking Across Grade Levels
Christopher Lehman, Author and Consultant
Close reading can raise energy and inspire deep thinking–or it can be a tedious bore! It all depends on how we approach it. Spend an engaging and thought-provoking day with Christopher Lehman who will help you study a progression of close reading instruction, from early elementary up through the secondary level, which respects the needs and development of these various readers. You will study practical methods for teaching the skills of deep analytical reading in ways that enchant students and help them become independent with these skills. Author and coauthor of several popular books for teachers, this workshop will draw on research and classroom practice from Falling In Love With Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts—And Life, co-authored with Kate Roberts.
APRIL 15, 2016
Engaged Reading and Classroom Talk: Transcending the Common Core
Gay Ivey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
You can teach strategies to students, but students are most likely to be strategic when they are engaged. Research suggests that aiming for engagement in reading holds promise not only for raising student achievement and creating strategic readers of complex texts, but also for helping students develop in their social-relational lives. We will explore how to arrange for engaged reading and engaged conversations through, about, and beyond texts, and we will consider the breadth of development leveraged by a focus on engagement.
JUNE 1, 2016
Writing Our Lives: Seeing the Importance of Radical Youth Literacies and Community Engagement in the Era of Common Core
Marcelle Haddix, Syracuse University
In her talk, Dr. Marcelle Haddix will present a community engaged model for teachers to support the everyday, authentic literacy practices of youth writers, particularly those from low-income urban communities and in low-performing school districts. With the demands placed on low-performing schools to meet high stakes standards and various assessment benchmarks, there is little time for authentic writing that captures the interests and experiences of young people. Instead, more emphasis in writing instruction is placed on making sure that students are able to “pass the test” and graduate. Writing Our Lives is an example of a community engaged approach with aims to address the problem of the achievement gap for urban youth, one that aligns with Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for authentic writing for real purposes and audiences.