Register Now   Date: Sunday, September 18, 2022 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503032 Weekend Language Detectives: Making the Writers Notebook a Sacred Space for Growing Authors K-8 Consider how using writing notebooks can allow your young author’s to shine and provide a perfect place for them to play with words, ideas, and their languages within a scaffolded writing cycle Explore how to use personalized notebooks for brainstorming, collecting ideas and research, and planning.  See examples of when to stay or go back to the notebook and when to move out of the notebook during [...]

Register Now   Date: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503034 Weekend Language Detectives: Supporting Multilingual Learners by Modeling and Deconstructing the Genre K-8 Examine how modeling and deconstructing a genre using mentor texts fits into a scaffolded writing cycle for language learners and all Learn how to screencast or deliver a live writing mini-lesson that will support growing authors Explore activities, response options, and language focused anchor chart ideas that you can try right away! TARGET AUDIENCE: K-8 General Educators, Content Area Specialists, Language Support Teachers and Everyone Else

Register Now   Date: Sunday, November 13, 2022 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503035 Weekend Language Detectives: Keeping Authors Agency Alive K-8 Are you worried about your reluctant or rebellious writers? Come talk about why we should be more concerned about the writers that stay inside our prescriptive writing parameters.  In this workshop, we will explore how to conceptualize writing time to be a world of choice, independence, and inquiry that lets writers draw upon their language, interests, culture, and experiences.  Providing intentional moments of student agency (about content, style, structure, format, etc.), will allow [...]

Register Now   Date: Sunday, January 8, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503083 Weekend Language Detectives: Conferral and Small Group Writing Instruction K-8 Gather tools for the conferral process, including questions to ask students, forms to guide self-reflection, and phrases that affirm student production Leave with more than 15 small group writing ideas that you can put into place this year in your writing workshop TARGET AUDIENCE: K-8 General Educators, Content Area Specialists, Language Support Teachers and Everyone Else

Register Now   Date: Sunday, February 5, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503085 Weekend Language Detectives: If This, Then That! Planning Responsive Mini-Lessons K-8 Learn how to analyze student writing through a language lens on word, sentence, and discourse development Explore writing mini-lesson moves you can consider to move authors forward Leave the session with ready-to-use templates, record-keeping pages, and lesson ideas that will help you think about your writers in relation to the WIDA standards TARGET AUDIENCE: K-8 General Educators, Content Area Specialists, Language Support Teachers and Everyone Else

Register Now   Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503086 Multilingual Literacy Strand: Nothing Small About It! Supporting Multilingual Learners in Guided Reading  Come build a “guided reading ready” kit to support your multilingual learners and everyone else Consider ways to embed language objectives into your guided reading lessons for students at a variety of language development levels …. And what should the rest of the class be doing?!  Learn how to balance the whole operation by simplifying the independent tasks and organizing the routines in a visual way that all [...]

Register Now   Date: Monday, April 24, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503109 20+ Diverse Picture Books: Nonfiction Edition! Consider how to expand perspectives through meaningful use of nonfiction read-alouds connected to essential content topics. Discuss the many ways to use diverse picture books to teach nonfiction genre-specific features, organizational structures, and reading strategies. Hear excerpts, see a preview, and build your must-have list of nonfiction texts, including biographies, reference materials, literary nonfiction, and memoirs.  Grab activity ideas to use for each one, including some ready-to-print or share resources and prompts for critical classroom [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503110 20+ Diverse Picture Books: Nonfiction Edition! Consider how to expand perspectives through meaningful use of nonfiction read-alouds connected to essential content topics. Discuss the many ways to use diverse picture books to teach nonfiction genre-specific features, organizational structures, and reading strategies. Hear excerpts, see a preview, and build your must-have list of nonfiction texts, including biographies, reference materials, literary nonfiction, and memoirs.  Grab activity ideas to use for each one, including some ready-to-print or share resources and prompts for critical classroom [...]