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Empowering Writers Launching Into Literacy-Diving into Informational Skills

Presented By

Carla Thio

Session Details

Date Time
February 24, 20239:00 am to 3:30 pm

Location

Edmonton (Consortium Office at Elmwood School)
Room 17/18, 16325 - 83 Avenue
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Grade Levels

Grade 2-8

Instructional tools to support deeper comprehension of text, apply analysis to constructed response, confidently teach informational and opinion writing, and learn how to provide actionable feedback when assessing student work.  Gain understanding of foundational writing skills to effectively respond to text.

LAUNCHING INTO LITERACY:

  • Understanding EW's Methodology and how it creates successful writing
  • Recognizing genre
  • Identifying organizational framework eg-nformational vs. narrative
  • Learning how annotate and analyze text
  • Finding literary elements for literary analysis
  • Identifying text conventions, "clues" discovery for constructed response


INFORMATIONAL SKILLS:

  • Developing broad, yet distinct main ideas
  • Creating detailed-generating questions
  • Widening sentence variety
  • Conductiong/referencing research
  • Building introductions and conclusions


PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:

  • Practicing process writing 
  • Forming assessment rubrics
  • Recap of today's learning-Informational Writing

**Please note the session fee includes the 6 hour Workshop and a FREE Hub Digital Resource (1-year license)**  This is a $99US SAVINGS!

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https://store.empoweringwriters.com/products/2nd-year-hub-for-consortium-customer

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