Capitalizing on Poetry to Strengthen Reading Comprehension Skills
This course will now be offered through distance learning.
Date and time: (Due to COVID-19 precautions, this course will no longer be face to face on Monday, March 30, 2020. It will be offered through distance learning only.)
Instructor: Ann Ellsworth
Registration: $99
For educators of grades 2-8
6 OPI renewal units
Course # 20551031
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Poetry has been called the neglected genre. Unfortunately, yes. Yet its potential for teaching important comprehension skills—summarizing, synthesis, inference, and visualizing--is simply unmatched when compared to other literary genres. What’s more, poetry, because of its brevity, is a game-changer for struggling readers who labor through long texts. In this session, participants will learn how to inject new energy into their existing ELA curriculum by using poetry in fresh, clever ways.
This series of assignments is designed to heighten your awareness of the ways you can help your students upgrade their written expression. To be in compliance with directives as a result of the Coronavirus, this workshop is offered as a type of distance learning. There are 12 assignments and you can select any 10 for workshop credit. This remote delivery is a substitution for a face-2-face offering at the MonTECH building in Missoula. The instructor will send you specifics, including articles to read. Submit your responses to the workshop facilitator’s email within 2 weeks.
About the presenter:
Ann Ellsworth has taught in elementary and secondary schools in Wisconsin and Montana, and has led reading and writing professional development workshops across Montana and the Midwest. She is the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) "Grammar Teacher of the Year." The Association of Teachers of English Grammar (ATEG) is an arm of NCTE. She was awarded the 2016 Montana Reading Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for two national teaching awards. Presently she works with teacher candidates at Montana State University-Bozeman She has served as editor of the MONTANA STATE READING JOURNAL and is working with a publisher on a book on how to improve student writing.
Register at: https://forms.gle/iwuKyhaiZDyZVJe79
This course will now be offered through distance learning.
Date and time: (Due to COVID-19 precautions, this course will no longer be face to face on Monday, March 30, 2020. It will be offered through distance learning only.)
Instructor: Ann Ellsworth
Registration: $99
For educators of grades 2-8
6 OPI renewal units
Course # 20551031
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Poetry has been called the neglected genre. Unfortunately, yes. Yet its potential for teaching important comprehension skills—summarizing, synthesis, inference, and visualizing--is simply unmatched when compared to other literary genres. What’s more, poetry, because of its brevity, is a game-changer for struggling readers who labor through long texts. In this session, participants will learn how to inject new energy into their existing ELA curriculum by using poetry in fresh, clever ways.
This series of assignments is designed to heighten your awareness of the ways you can help your students upgrade their written expression. To be in compliance with directives as a result of the Coronavirus, this workshop is offered as a type of distance learning. There are 12 assignments and you can select any 10 for workshop credit. This remote delivery is a substitution for a face-2-face offering at the MonTECH building in Missoula. The instructor will send you specifics, including articles to read. Submit your responses to the workshop facilitator’s email within 2 weeks.
About the presenter:
Ann Ellsworth has taught in elementary and secondary schools in Wisconsin and Montana, and has led reading and writing professional development workshops across Montana and the Midwest. She is the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) "Grammar Teacher of the Year." The Association of Teachers of English Grammar (ATEG) is an arm of NCTE. She was awarded the 2016 Montana Reading Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for two national teaching awards. Presently she works with teacher candidates at Montana State University-Bozeman She has served as editor of the MONTANA STATE READING JOURNAL and is working with a publisher on a book on how to improve student writing.
Register at: https://forms.gle/iwuKyhaiZDyZVJe79