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In-Service Options

If you would like more information about any of the in-services we offer, available dates, or pricing please contact our office at 813-657-3896 or submit our online form. We look forward to in-servicing your school or district!

Workshop #1

EXPOSITORY WRITING
Grades 3 - 5 (6 hours)

Due to the amount of information covered, this six hour workshop
can not be shortened or combined with any other workshop.

• Graphic Organizers
• Handling a prompt
• Exploring leads
• Focusing on supporting information
• Writing conclusions
• Hands-on activities to motivate
• Writing games and activities

Workshop #2

NARRATIVE WRITING
Grades 3 - 5 (6 hours)

Due to the amount of information covered, this six hour workshop
can not be shortened or combined with any other workshop.

• Study key narrative elements
• Factors that improve writer’s stories
• Planning a story
• Day-by-day supportive writing lessons
• Capturing ideas from real-life situations
• Personal narratives
• Fictional narratives

Workshop #3

SENTENCE & PARAGRAPH BUILDING
Grades K - 2 (6 hours)

• Writing process
• Writer’s workshop
• Strategies to support intermediate-level writing
• Creative ways to develop understanding of a ‘sentence’
• Developing a paragraph
• Hands-on writing activities
• Multiple Intelligences lessons

Workshop #4

PRIMARY NARRATIVE
Grades K - 2 (6 hours)
(Sequel to Sentence & Paragraph Building)

• Narrative elements
• Hands-on activities to develop understanding of a timeline
• Planning techniques
• Development of characters, setting and time frame
• Writing games
• Journal writing

Workshop #5

SCHOOL-WIDE WRITING
Grades K - 5 (6 hours)

• K-5 curriculum integration
• Quickwrites
• Creating school-wide writing notebooks
• Brainstorming
• Building background information
• Organizing information
• Hands-on activities & lessons for classroom writing

Workshop #6

GRADE-LEVEL PLANNING
(3 - 6 hours)

• Planning the year
• Whole-class activities
• Seqel to workshops #1 - 4

Workshop #7

DETAIL BUILDING & ELABORATION
Grades 3 -5 (6 hours)
(Available only in conjunction with Expository or Narrative workshops)

• Quickwrites
• Journal writing
• Portfolios
• Detail-building strategies
• Elaborating techniques

Workshop #8

BRAIN-BASED MATHEMATICS
Grades K - 2 or 3 -5 (3 or 6 hours)

• Managing centers
• Center-based curriculum tasks
• Overview of ‘Just Turn & Share’ math series
• Math tasks that relate to real-world concepts
• Hands-on activities in measurement, graphing, money, time, algebra, temperature, geometry and ten other areas
• Assessing math levels
• Integrating math and writing

If you would like more information about any of the in-services we offer, available dates, or pricing please contact our office at 813-657-3896 or submit our online form. We look forward to in-servicing your school or district!

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