Meeting the Challenge of High Common Core State Standards: Early Literacy Webinars
Appropriate for Literacy Coaches, PreK-1, Reading, Special Education, and ELL teachers
We are developing a series of quality, on-demand web seminars featuring “Best Practices” in Joyful, Accelerated Kindergarten and Early Literacy. These engaging and practical webinars demonstrate how to reach high Common Core State Standards and include video clips from actual classrooms.
Each fifty-minute webinar topic features our action-research from exemplary kindergarten classrooms and includes a detailed, full-color, professional e-Book. These twenty- to thirty- page e-books will follow the seminar research and practical strategies with detailed page-by-page content. The webinars will be presented by Nellie Edge with vignettes from her colleagues and, for an additional fee, are available for professional development credits to the designated university with a follow-up practicum project. More details will be available spring 2012. Subscribe to our Newsletter for announcements.
For those of you who are not able to fly out to Oregon and join us live, web seminars are the next best thing.
Look for These Joyful, Accelerated Literacy Webinars: “Best Practices” Within a Quality Kindergarten Model.
- Multisensory ABC and Phonics Immersion with Sign Language and Parents as Partners: Learn Best Practices from our ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! Program. Teachers tell us “This is the best thing I do!” You can adapt these strategies to enhance any phonics and ABC recognition program.
- Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting: How to Teach It and Why It Matters! From Name Tickets and the “O” Dance to Brain Exercises for Fluency—no boring workbook pages here.
- Teach for Fluency with High-Frequency “Heart Words:” These Are the Words Children Love to Write: I, love, you, Mom, Dad, cat, dog, like… And these are the multisensory strategies that make learning engaging and memorable! From pink “heart words” to purple, yellow, and green “heart words”—you’ll love our templates, props, and simple visual plans that motivate young learners.
- Build Independent Writing Centers That Engage Budding Writers: All Children Love to Write and Draw! Learn to organize four favorite writing centers that children will use and build on all year long!
- We Love Lists!
- Write-a-Message!
- Animal Drawing and Writing Center with Rubber Band Books
- Stamp-and-Read Skinny Books Center
- Independent Book-Making Center: Our Best Strategies for Kindergarten Publishing. Engage children in making “real cool books” using mentor texts as models. Our six-page folded books provide the frame that invites children to tell their own stories and share their research. Learn proven tips for publishing student work and creating a culture of prolific kindergarten writers. Engaged and purposeful writing is how we meet of high Common Core State Standards.
- Make Friends with Mother Goose to Build Oral Language Fluency and Reading Stamina: Engaging Experiences in Drama, Song, and Dance Build a Scaffold for Shared, Guided, and Independent Reading. Children love to memorize and recite nursery rhymes while developing phonemic awareness, listening, speaking, and reading skills.
- Joyful and Accelerated Literacy Strategies with Nellie Edge Read and Sing Big Books™: Explore Gradual-Release-of-Responsibility Models and Differentiate Instruction (Includes the Neurological Impress Method and Parents as Partners connections). Learn how to simultaneously build oral language and reading fluency with our Read and Sing “Home-to-School” Musical Book Club.
- Parents as Partners in Kindergarten and Early Literacy: Family Connections that Multiply Our Teaching Effectiveness. Includes tips and resources for spring registrations: family literacy night, Student-led Parent Conferences, using volunteers effectively, and establishing the nightly Reading-at-Home Program.
- Falling in Love with Memorable Children’s Books: Nellie Edge’s Picks from 2010-2011. Hear the books (well-read) and learn how to engage the children in “grand conversations” and deep reflection, while immersing them in a love of literature. Learn how to build a wonderful class library.
- The Power of Poetry in the Lives of Children: Children Deserve to Memorize, Recite, Perform, Illustrate, and Read the Most Beautiful Language We Speak! Learn how to achieve optimal results with the “I Can Read” Poetry and Song Notebooks which become treasured family gifts.
- Meaningful and Engaging Strategies that Make Phonics Instruction Memorable! Master kindergarten teachers share powerful teaching vignettes of phonics instruction that transfers to children’s reading and writing. Features delightful video clips from teachers in real kindergartens.
- Discover The Magic of Singing Songs: Enhancing All Children’s Language, Literacy, Engagement, and Joy! Includes songs to accelerate literacy skills and performance songs that teachers, children, and families simply love.
- Learn Favorite Name Games, Songs, Action Rhymes, and Dances For Beginning The Year: Build Community and Celebrate Language!
- How We Organize Our Elephant and Piggie Book Club: Real Books Make Real Readers! Mo Willems is a favorite author and our children devour those delightful books. Our Home-to-School Book Club provides support and challenge for diverse learners. Happy Pig Day to you!
- Begin the Year with Ten “Best Practices” in Joyful Accelerated Literacy: An Overview of Proven Strategies which Produce Exceptional Gains.
- Memorable Rituals, Traditions, and Celebrations: Building the Learning Community and Enhancing Learning. How we welcome children, transition between activities,honor young authors, playfully guide our children, and hold up high standards makes a huge difference in joyful learning, academic success, and positive school attitudes.
“Once you get the community right, the levels of learning soar…”
~Ralph Peterson
Most of the seminar registration fees will be $69.00 for members and $99.00 for nonmembers; however, we are exploring funding sources so we can offer some complimentary web seminars to all of our newsletter friends. For those of you who are not able to fly out to Oregon and join us live, these webinars are the next best thing. We look forward to sharing these proven practices for excellence in kindergarten and early literacy with you because—simply put—they work! N.E.
