CAPE Summer Literacy Workshop
Thursday, June 8, 2017
New Format with Four Featured Educators
CAPE of Madison County invites you to a unique CAPE Summer Literacy Workshop that offers grade level group sessions geared specifically for teachers and staff from Madison County.
Workshop Overview
Keynote - Mrs. Andrea McCammon - P16 Director, State of Indiana
Courtney Gordon, Smekens Literacy Specialist
David Slonim, Author and Illustrator
Jean Russell, 2016 Indiana Teacher of the Year
Location - Pendleton Heights Middle School
Valuable Instruction & handouts
Receive $10 in CAPE Bucks to be used the day of workshop
Lunch on site
Cost: $65
Register Here
Thursday, Jun 8, 2017, 08:00 AM
7450 South 300 West, Pendleton, IN 46064, United States
Courtney Gordon Literacy Specialist
Courtney Gordon of Smekens Education Solutions
Morning Session: Intermediate (grades 3 - 6 and up)
REDEFINE THE RESEARCH PROCESS
The standards require that students are engaged in frequent research experiences. Beyond viewing “research” as a massive unit that culminates with a multi-page product, students need to know how to gather, organize, and present researched information on a regular basis and at every grade level. The real focus of this session is on the research process, as opposed to the product.
· Identify the skills necessary for organizing and presenting researched information.
· Teach students to analyze information stated within a primary source rather than accept someone else’s filtered interpretation in a secondary source.
· Improve students’ online navigational skills with essential Internet tips & tricks.
· Acquire a list of alternative products to the traditional research report.
ACHIEVE DEEP SYNTHESIS
Summarizing is a necessary facet to achieve reading comprehension. However, it is not the goal. Reader thinking must evolve beyond a basic understanding of a text and achieve a deeper synthesis of the information. But what does “deeper synthesis” look like, and how do we get there? This session will dive into these questions and more as teachers learn how to prepare students to do something with what they have read.
· Acquire concrete and kid-friendly explanations of
· summary and synthesis.
· Learn an explicit routine to synthesize author ideas during and after reading.
· Identify common text-to-text connections that lead to deeper synthesis.
· Scaffold instruction to move past a basic summarization of one text to achieve a sophisticated synthesis of multiple texts.
Afternoon Session: Grades PK - 2
SCAFFOLD WRITING SKILLS
Teachers at all levels are expected to provide writing experiences across the three major modes— argumentative/persuasive, informative, and narrative. And yet, strategies to differentiate skills among grade levels can seem unclear. In this session, we’ll zero-in on a definitive scaffold of lessons that develop writers across a K-12 continuum. So whether you teach first grade, fifth grade, or freshmen, you’ll learn how to take students from where they are to where they need to be.
· Recognize the core skills that make each mode distinctly different.
· Learn to vary the genre, format, and audience within writing tasks.
· Receive grade-appropriate lesson ideas for essential writing skills.
· Study samples of yearlong writing units that lead to mastery of essential skills.
Andrea McCammon - P-16 Director
David Slonim, Author & Illustrator
Jean Russell, 2106 Indiana Teacher of the Year
CAPE Director - Gayle J Gernand
Email: GJGernand@anderson.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/anderson.edu/cape-madisoncounty/
Location: 1100 East 5th Street, Anderson, IN, United States
Phone: 765-641-4027
Twitter: @CapeGJG