Virtual Workshop Overview
This powerful workshop is designed to help K-5 teachers create a plan for launching and leading literacy stations during the daily reading block. Before students can be academically engaged in literacy stations, they first need to understand their own roles and responsibilities during independent learning time. This virtual workshop will start with strategies for setting expectations, building routines, and creating procedures at the beginning of the school year. Participants will receive a day-by-day plan for starting this process beginning with the first week of school.
Workshop Topics
• Learn how the five components of reading can be supported with literacy stations.
• Recognize how literacy stations can be used to address grade-level specific standards.
• Gain ideas for planning purposeful, achievement-driven station activities.
• Boost students’ comprehension of literature and informational texts with listening stations.
• Learn how to establish routines that foster independence in all K-5 students.
• Discover how to grow students’ stamina for working independently.
• Determine how to assign letter grades to work completed
Workshop Outline
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See the Big Picture
• Prepare for an effective reading block
• Understand expectation
• Establish routines
Start the First Station
• Create a Classroom Library
• Identify expectations
• Practice procedures
Add the Second Station
• Introduce partnered fluency work
• Practice partner fluency
• Manage transitions
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Plan Additional Stations
• Introduce word-work games
• Work on words
• Incorporate a Listening Station
• Write about the reading
Put It All Together
• Shift from procedures to practice
• Troubleshoot issues
• Plan for grades
Total time to complete:
• 5.5 hours (Recorded video available
to participants for 90 days.)
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Free guide! All workshop registrants will receive a free digital copy of Launch the Reading Block. This popular resource includes simple & effective mini-lessons that sequence the start-up of the reader’s workshop. (An $8.99 value!)
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Teachers lov
e the authentic, “from-the-trenches” insight that Kristi McCullough offers during her professional development sessions with K-5 teachers. Her own experience as a reading and writing teacher and literacy coach provides the perfect backdrop for Kristi to share practical ways to deliver research-based best practices. As a literacy consultant with Smekens Education, Kristi has worked with thousands of teachers across the United States delivering regional seminars and customized on-site school trainings that focus specifically on teaching reading. In addition, she is also the author of the “6-Week Planning Guide for Launching the 90-Minute Reading Block,” a popular resource for K-5 teachers. Kristi wore many hats in public schools for 13 years during which time she was trained in Reading Recovery and many other well-known instructional models. She is passionate about helping teachers implement a balanced literacy approach focused on real-life, purposeful literacy activities that result in improved student achievement.
Workshop Pricing
- $149
- For groups of 10 or more, contact us for special pricing and arrangements.
