Past Salem Cadre Support Groups
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 4:30 to 6:00p.m.
Reading Workshop Within “The Daily 4,” Class Libraries, and the Salem-Keizer Comprehensive Literacy Model: How They All Fit Together
with Katie Nelson and Nellie Edge
McKinley Elementary, 466 Mcgilchrist St SE, Salem, OR 97302-3773, Phone: (503) 399-3167
- Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting that Works!
- Strategies for Using the “I” Chart
- Building a Great Class Library and Why It Matters
- Building Reading Independence and Stamina
- How Read and Sing Books Continue to Provide Foundations for Fluency
Thursday, May 5, 2011- 4:30 to 6:00p.m.
Guided Reading: Supporting Our Emergent Readers with Individual and Small Group Instruction, and Planning Our Year-end Language and Art Celebrations
with Laura Flocker and Kate Anderson
935 Hansen Ave S, Salem, OR 97302-5921, Phone: (503) 399-3136
- You will love this art-rich kindergarten. (Bring a camera.)
- We will present an overview of how to conduct individual reading conferences and a small group guided reading lesson.
- Children deserve to memorize, recite and perform language. Plan now for your end-of-year family celebrations!
- See the results of our research on ABC Fluency “Brain Exercises.”
Writing-to-Read in Kindergarten: How to conduct small group “Kid Writing” Workshop and Individual Writing Conferences.
This will be held in Tanya Hauck’s Bilingual Writing-to-Read Kindergarten. Tanya has actively participated in our cadre meetings for several years and it shows in her engaging classroom. We will sing, sign, and celebrate language! We will observe and discuss the three short online “Kid Writing” Video Clips of Julie Lay working with children. Please take the time to view and reflect on them—and your own “Kid Writing” strategies again before this session. Bring samples of your kindergarten writing notebooks, your “Kid Writing” book by Feldgus and Cardonick and –always—your questions and stories. Janis Wurgler will share thoughts on using real children’s books for “read to self” in kindergarten. Nellie Edge will share more about teaching “heart” words for fluency.
Participating Kindergarten Cadre Members will receive the updated resource book, Celebrate Language and Accelerate Literacy: High Expectations • Joyful Learning • Proven Strategies by Nellie Edge, 2010, at our January Meeting. This book features photo essays and best practices from many of Salem’s outstanding kindergarten classrooms. It highlights the practical strategies, research, and philosophy underlying our high social-emotional and academic standards in kindergarten.
New “Kid Writing” Workshop
Organizational Model for Writing to Read in Kindergarten: What are the Other Children Doing While I Teach Writing Workshop?
New hands-on workshop with both Julie Lay and Nellie Edge. (Limited to 24 teachers) $229 (Includes $30 materials fee and new workshop manual)
See details and register online.
Many of you have studied with Nellie Edge and taken the “Writing to Read in Kindergarten” seminar with Julie Lay more than once. You are comfortable with writing workshop but are challenged by how to keep the other children doing meaningful literacy activities and “word work” while you conference with individual “kid writers.” This “intimate, hands-on, learn-by-doing” seminar with both Julie Lay and Nellie Edge is for those of you who are ready to make your joyful “writing-to-read” kindergarten even more systematic and powerful. Limited to 24 teachers, so register early!
Tips for Spring Kindergarten Registration and How to Build Wonderful Learning Environments!
Gather resources for a helpful Parent Information Notebook and consider ways to enhance your parents as partners program. Don’t miss seeing two beautiful McKinley Kindergarten environments with great class libraries. Anne Pagett and Dee Montgomery will open their joyful kindergarten classrooms to you. Bring your cameras!
We will also consider ways to build a smooth transition between Head Start, preschool, and kindergarten: What social-emotional and literacy goals are the most important for preschool teachers to nurture? How can we collaborate for the benefit of our children?
Favorite New Children’s Books and How To Use Them For Literacy and Delight in Kindergarten!
A Living Room Seminar with Nellie Edge and Friends.
What are the most delightful new books and treasured classics for the kindergarten library? What are the best predictable books to build independence, stamina, and enthusiasm for reading? How do we conduct guided reading strategies that engage children imaginatively? How do we invite parents to help us build a wonderful class library?
Research shows that the quality of our class libraries and our family reading connections are the vital foundation for higher reading achievement. Learn how to establish the “Parents as Partners Reading-at-Home” program and how to build a great class library. Limited to 14 teachers. $159.00 until February 20, 2010. $229.00 after February 20, 2010. Includes beautiful new literacy manual and lunch. (As a gift to you, many of the new children’s books will be available for purchase at wholesale prices. )
Celebrate Language and Literacy
with Katie Nelson, Marcia Zegar, and Nellie Edge!
This will be a fast-paced “learn by doing” workshop where you experience life in Katie Nelson’s joyful and literate kindergarten. We will sing and sign, engage in “Kid Writing” Workshop, and experience “The Daily 4” along with favorite literacy and word work centers. Bring your camera! Katie will share the initial results of her award-winning literacy grant. This practical meeting is a synopsis of what will later be an all-day kindergarten workshop with Katie Nelson.
(Note: This meeting lasts until 6:30 p.m. and you are encouraged to come early.)
Art, Science, Literacy, and the Kindergarten Child: Continued Explorations and Inspiration from an Arts-Rich Kindergarten
with Laura Flocker and Nellie Edge
Learn more from Master kindergarten-researcher, teacher-artist, and Reading Recovery® teacher, Laura Flocker about our action-research on kindergarten-friendly handwriting and brain exercises to build fluency with letters, words, and reading. How do we teach children to see like an artist and think like a scientist? What are the best art materials to use? What are some simple framing ideas? Laura will demonstrate how she weaves art, science, and literacy connections throughout the curriculum. Learn how Laura organizes parent volunteers. Look through several beautiful “I Can Read” Notebooks and Year-End Memory Books. (Bring one of your own to share!) Come early and have an opportunity to visit Kate Anderson’s joyful kindergarten classroom again too! Bring your camera!
Art, Literacy, and the Kindergarten Child with Laura Flocker (all-day kindergarten)
Laura will share her passion for teaching art in kindergarten and her high expectations for student engagement in art, science, and literacy. Nellie will highlight best practices for teaching handwriting with a focus on fluency. We will have examples of best “Just Right: I Can Read” books to build individual book boxes for “Read To Self” from The Daily 5. Be sure to view Laura Flockers awesome website: Parent and Teacher Information.
Download Images of Laura Flocker’s Art-Rich Kindergarten (8 page PDF handout) from our October 2008 Newsletter if you were unable to attend.
Management and Organization Strategies for Kindergarten Success and “Read to Self” With Katie Nelson
Katie will share tried and proven strategies for managing and organizing the kindergarten environment with a 2½-hour schedule. How do you fit it all in? (including math!) Nellie, Katie and colleagues will discuss successes and challenges in implementing “The Daily 5” and “Kid Writing”. How are the children doing in building reading stamina? How is your “Kid Writing” Workshop progressing?
Writing to Read in Kindergarten: Explore the Power of “Kid Writing” with Julie Lay, Nellie Edge, and Tanya Wall
Julie Lay is a mentor kindergarten and NBCT teacher who has developed a model "writing to read" classroom. Spend a day with Julie and learn practical tips for organizing the literacy environment and see why the "Kid Writing" approach is such a powerful way to systematically develop phonics skills and word recognition through journal writing.
At the end of the seminar, teachers are invited to stay and further dialog with questions about any of our Joyful Accelerated Kindergarten Literacy Strategies.
Writing to Read Seminar Flier and Registration
Kidwriting Across the Curriculum in Kindergarten: Follow-up Session
You will love seeing Marsha Lioy and Dee Montgomery’s Joyful “Kid Writing” kindergartens!
This meeting is especially intended for teachers who are already using the “Kid Writing” approach and have studied the Writing to Read in Kindergarten seminar with Julie Lay. It will be an interactive dialog time to share our insights and questions with Nellie Edge and experienced “Kid Writing” colleagues. Nellie will bring some favorite writing center “word work” stations and will refer to both complimentary “Kid Writing” e-books in her presentation
Please Download Complementary "Kid Writing" e-Books
Any teacher who has not scheduled a time to view “The Daily 5” DVD again, e-mail Janice Wurgler (wurgler_janis@salkeiz.k12.or.us) or Kathy Moran (moran_kathy@salkeiz.k12.or.us) at the district office.
Management and Organization Strategies for Kindergarten Success • Best Practices in Multisensory ABC and Phonics Immersion
Katie Nelson will share tried and proven strategies for managing and organizing the kindergarten environment. Nellie Edge will share her practical research on Multisensory ABC and Phonics Immersion.
Creating a Caring Community Through Joyful Teaching and Positive Discipline • ABC and Phonics Immersion Dialog
Celeste Starr will talk about how she builds a caring learning community (with delightful songs and dances!) and how she teaches kindness, respect, and responsibility. Bring your questions. We will also continue the ABC and Phonics Immersion dialog with Nellie Edge.
Dance, Sing, and Sign: Best Practices for Large and Small Motor Development • ABC Fluency Research
Held in Kathie Bridges' kindergarten at Pringle Elementary, 5500 Reed Lane SE, Salem. School phone number is (503) 399-3178.
Kathie Bridges will share practical research on how to develop the small and large muscle skills necessary for writing success. Learn how to organize appropriate literacy centers and come prepared to dance! Nellie Edge will begin the dialog about exciting ABC fluency research and the powerful role kindergarten teachers play in building “brain-friendly” pathways for reading.
More of exploring “The Daily 5” or “The Daily Three” in Kindergarten: How to Foster Literacy Independence (First part of the DVD)
You are welcome to come at 4:00pm for a tour of this wonderful kindergarten classroom and to visit with your colleagues! We will start the DVD viewing promptly at 4:30pm. We are excited to view “The Daily 5” DVD: the teacher modeling is superb. You will see actual demonstrations of the three ways to read a book independently and with a buddy. These are strategies you can easily use in the kindergarten classroom.
We will explore how to create a culture for reading and begin systematically developing independent reading behavior — even in kindergarten.
If you have not received a copy of the important resource The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (“the 2 sisters”) please email Janice Wurgler at Wurgler_Janis@salkeiz.k12.or.us
Interactive Writing and the Use of Individual White Boards
Jeff will demonstrate how to conduct interactive writing lessons, and share tips on using individual white boards with kindergartners. He will also share his experience implementing some of “The Daily 5” strategies. Come early (4:00) to visit and tour his writing-to-read kindergarten. Your kindergarten colleagues have loved studying with this master teacher. The presentation will begin promptly at 4:30pm.
Music is Magic in Accelerating Language and Literacy: Using Books That Sing and Rhyme to Create the “I Can Read” Habit
Join Nellie Edge for a “Living Room Workshop” from 4:00-6:00pm in her South Salem home. E-mail for directions info@nellieedge.com and to let us know if you plan to attend. Space is limited. Please bring your Celebrate Language and Accelerate Literacy manual and carpool if possible.
- Explore how to transition from shared reading to guided reading, develop literacy skills, and scaffold independent reading behavior.
- Use accelerated literacy strategies to teach high-frequency words.
- Use music, sign language, and drama to make language and literacy come alive!
- Discover free resources for building individual Student-Book Boxes and filling them with “Just Right! I Can Read!” books.
What Do the Most Effective Kid Writing Classrooms Look Like?
- Why is “Kid Writing” such a powerful approach to systematically develop phonics? See the website.
- Be sure to visit the inspiring “Kid Writing” wall of fame.
Consider Starting Your Own Kindergarten Support Group
How to Involve "Parents as Partners" in Kindergarten Literacy
Mitzi Shirk and Susan Ventura's kindergarten at Edgewood Elementary, 577 East 46th Ave., Eugene, 541-687-3363. Explore a language-rich kindergarten and focus on Excellence in Kindergarten Literacy. Nellie Edge, Mitzi and Susan will share some of the best things kindergarten teachers do to collaborate with parents and multiply their teaching effectiveness. Please consider sharing an activity or communication idea that you have used to build respectful and successful parent connections. Handout provided.
Developing Phonemic Awareness — Best Practices
Mary Christenson's kindergarten at Parker Elementary, 3875 Kincaid, Eugene, 541-687-3303. Come and explore another wonderful kindergarten. Nellie Edge and your colleagues will contribute to this important literacy topic. Handout provided.
Art and the Kindergarten Child
Joan Cutler’s kindergarten at Adams/Hill Elementary, 950 West 22nd, Eugene, 541-687-3475. Joan will share her passion for teaching art in kindergarten and Nellie Edge will share insights on what kindergarten teachers have learned from Reggio Emelia art-rich schools. We invite you to bring samples or photos and share a favorite integrated art project. Handout provided.
Literacy through Children's Literature — Favorite Book Connections
Carla Cooper, Janice Nielsen and Jaynie Wiser’s kindergartens at Laurel Elementary School, 1401 Laurel, Junction City, 541-998-2386. Visit three wonderful kindergarten classrooms and share your love of using literature in kindergarten. Nellie Edge will present some comprehension strategies using quality literature. Please consider sharing one of your favorite literature extension activities. Handout provided.
Organizing Beautiful Kindergartens — Practical Strategies that Work and The Best Thing We Do to End the Year and Build Memories
Jill Liedke's K-1 classroom at Harris Elementary, 1150 East 29th Ave., Eugene, 541-687-3286. Tour a beautiful child-centered environment. Jill Liedke, Nellie Edge and local kindergarten teachers will share. Handout provided.