Learning Opportunities

Each day will include Reading and Writing sessions.

Effective Reading Instruction Across the Curriculum
What is the best way to teach reading? How do we help readers to become proficient in BOTH code and comprehension? How do we integrate reading across the curriculum? Join BC teacher and author, Adrienne Gear, as outlines a balanced approach to reading instruction that targets both code and comprehension. She will provide an overview of her Reading Power approach – introducing the key concepts, sharing her thinking around “meta-cognition” and “the language of thinking” and introducethe five Reading Power strategies: Connect, Visualize, Question, Infer, and Transform. Whether you are new to teaching reading, or just looking for some fresh ideas, this session is sure to provide you with some practical tools and inspiration. As always, Adrienne will tie her lessons to great literature and picture books and share many student samples. Don’t miss this opportunity to help support your students’ reading and thinking skills!

A Powerful Year of Writing: Effective Writing Instruction and Assessment
“How long does this have to be?” “Is this for marks?” “I have nothing to write about!” If you are “making connections” to any of these comments, this workshop is for you! In this workshop, BC educator and author Adrienne Gear will explore ideas to help teachers set up an effective process-driven writing program that centers around weekly practice writes. She will share tips to help you organize your year of writing around different text structures including personal narrative, nonfiction and story writing. Adrienne will model several mini lessons that focus on writing techniques to raise the quality of your students’ writing as well as share her thoughts on assessment and conferences. Participants will come away with an abundance of new anchor books and writing lessons to use in their classroom.

Target Audience

K-6 teachers