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          • American Indian Short Stories
          • American Indian Poetry
          • Biographies of Native Americans
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          • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
          • Fire on the Land
          • Native American Astronomy
          • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
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    • About WMPLC
    • Our Team
  • Professional Development
    • Online Courses >
      • Indian Education for All >
        • American Indian Literature K-8
        • American Indian Literature 9-12
        • American Indian Sovereignty
        • Birchbark House (2021-22)
        • Boarding School Era
        • Current Events in Indian Country
        • Dance House
        • Early Childhood Literature in IEFA
        • Foundations of IEFA (2021-22)
        • History of the Flathead Reservation
        • IEFA and the Visual Arts (2021-22)
        • IEFA Special Topics 1 >
          • Who Will Tell My Brother?: The Indian Mascot Controversy
          • Honoring Native Women’s Voices
          • American Indian Short Stories
          • American Indian Poetry
          • Biographies of Native Americans
        • IEFA Special Topics 2 >
          • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
          • Fire on the Land
          • Native American Astronomy
          • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
          • If I Ever Get Out of Here
        • Montana Tribal Histories
        • Native American Author Studies
        • Native American Literature Glencoe
        • Plants in MT Native Cultures (2021-22)
        • Seven Essential Understandings
      • English Language Arts/ Dyslexia/Best Practices >
        • Contemporary Issues: Dyslexia 2021-22
        • Helping Student Writers (2021-22)
        • Language Study for Teachers (2021-22)
        • Learning from Finland (2021-22)
        • Writing Improvement (2021-22)
      • Gifted & Talented >
        • Exploring SENG (2021-22)
        • Nurturing Individual Potential (2021-22)
      • New Teacher/ Improving Teaching Practices >
        • It's Never Too Late (2021-22)
      • Educational Leadership/ Administrators >
        • Introduction to Calibration, June 24, 2021
        • MT EPAS Teacher Evaluation on Steroids for New School Leaders: August 2, 2021
        • Rural Schools: Supervising Teacher (2021-22)
      • School Climate/ MANDT/ L&L >
        • Teacher Self Care through Mindfulness, April/May 2021
        • MANDT/ Behavior De-Escalation, April 30, 2021
        • Mindful Practices for Educators (2020-21)
      • VESi Online Courses
    • Past Courses/Workshops >
      • 2020-2021 Closed Courses >
        • Trauma Support Cohorts (2020-21)
        • MT EPAS Teacher Evaluation on Steroids: March 22, 2021
        • Nurturing Individual Potential
        • Exploring SENG
        • American Indian Literature K-8
        • American Indian Literature 9-12
        • American Indian Sovereignty
        • Birchbark House
        • Boarding School Era
        • Current Events in Indian Country
        • Dance House
        • Early Childhood Literature in IEFA
        • Foundations of IEFA
        • History of the Flathead Reservation
        • IEFA and the Visual Arts
        • IEFA Special Topics 1 >
          • Who Will Tell My Brother?: The Indian Mascot Controversy
          • Honoring Native Women’s Voices
          • American Indian Short Stories
          • American Indian Poetry
          • Biographies of Native Americans
        • IEFA Special Topics 2 >
          • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
          • Fire on the Land
          • Native American Astronomy
          • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
          • If I Ever Get Out of Here
        • Montana Tribal Histories
        • Native American Author Studies
        • Native American Literature Glencoe
        • Plants in MT Native Cultures
        • Seven Essential Understandings
        • Learning from Finland
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts
        • It's Never Too Late
        • Contemporary Issues: Dyslexia
        • MT EPAS Teacher Evaluation on Steroids
        • MANDT/ Behavior De-Escalation, Feb. 12, 2021
        • MANDT/ Behavior De-Escalation, Nov. 20, 2020
        • MANDT/ Behavior De-Escalation, Sept. 28, 2020
        • MANDT Training Aug. 10, 2020
        • It's Never Too Late (Summer 2020)
        • Contemporary Issues: Dyslexia (Autumn 2020)
        • Contemporary Issues: Dyslexia (Summer 2020)
        • Learning from Finland (Summer 2020)
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts (Autumn 2020)
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts (Summer 2020)
        • Exploring SENG (Summer 2020)
        • Nurturing Individual Potential (Summer 2020)
        • Current Events in Indian Country (Summer 2020)
        • IEFA: Literature K-8 (Summer 2020)
        • IEFA: Literature 9-12 (Summer 2020)
        • Native American Literature (Summer 2020)
        • Early Childhood Literature IEFA (Summer 2020)
      • 2018-2019 Closed Courses >
        • August Institute 2018 >
          • August Institute Hotel Blocks 2018
          • August Institute Gifted and Talented workshops
          • August Institute Education workshops
          • August Institute IEFA workshops
          • August Institute Missoula College Floor Plan maps
        • IEFA Essential Understandings: 4.1.19
        • Make the Most of the Final Weeks of School: Active Learning With a Twist for All Subjects/Grades: April 30, 2019
        • Mindful by Nature, April 2019
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts; Jan. 2019
        • Ramping-up K-6 Reading and Writing for End-of-year Results: April 29, 2019
        • EPAS Teacher Evaluation: April 2019
        • MANDT Training: March 2019
        • Tricks to Turn Even Struggling Spellers-Writers: March 22, 2019
        • Anticipating the ACT: March 1, 2019
        • Writing Like a Reader: March 8, 2019
        • MT AGATE Conference, 2019
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation 1.14.19
        • IEFA: The Boarding School Era, January 2019
        • Webinars: Danielson Framework for Effective Teaching in Practice
        • The Danielson Framework in Action; Jan. 2019
        • Make Your Classroom an Active Literacy Laboratory/Classroom: March 29, 2019
        • Writing Workshops, Nov. 2018
        • MANDT Training November 2018
        • IEFA: The Dance House Online Book Club, October 2018
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature K-8 Online Book Club, October 2018
        • TEAMS work sessions with OPI 2018
        • Reading and Writing Workshops, Nov. 2018
        • Up a Notch 4 Gifted Kids, October 2018
        • Love and Logic; October 2018
        • Introduction to Restorative Practices and Using Circles Effectively, October 2018
      • 2017-2018 Closed Courses >
        • 2018 Montana AP® Summer Institute
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature 4.2.18
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation 4.9.18
        • Learn to Identify Young G&T Students Workshop 3.17.18
        • Google Tools for Teachers 3.21.18
        • The Danielson Framework in Action
        • Re-Invigorating the Second-R Writing Workshop 2.23.18
        • Giftedness in Younger Grades Workshop 2.6.18
        • IEFA: Montana Tribal Histories 1.8.18
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature 1.22.18
        • Stacy York Training for Early Childhood 1.17.18
        • Native American Literature
        • Integrating IEFA into Content Area Curriculum
        • Re-Invigorating the Second-R Writing Workshop 12.15.17
        • Mindful Educator's Workshop November 2017
        • MANDT Training October 2017
        • TEAMS work sessions with OPI 2017
        • Conscious Classroom Management
        • August Institute 2017
      • 2016-2017 Closed Courses >
        • Advanced Placement Courses
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation
        • EPAS June workshop
        • G&T STEAMmaker Camp
        • Mindful by Nature Workshop; April 2017
        • Love and Logic; April 2017
        • Hacking Leadership (May)
        • IEFA: Montana Tribal Histories
        • McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Under ESSA presentations
        • Mindfulness/Holding Space Workshop
        • IEFA: The Boarding School Era
        • MANDT Training March 2017
        • MANDT Training January 2017
        • Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom
        • Improving Classroom Instruction with MT EPAS
    • August Institute 2021 >
      • August Institute Hotel Blocks 2021
      • August Institute Credit Options 2021
    • Request Workshops/Consulting >
      • Mindfulness Workshops
      • Reading and Writing Workshops
      • EPAS
      • MANDT
      • Standards Based Grading
      • Gifted and Talented
      • Prevention of Bullying/Suicide
  • Technology & school Savings
    • Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula Discount
    • Moodle Classrooms for Schools
    • Medicaid Billing Services >
      • Montana Medical Billing
    • Book Creator
    • Apptegy
    • Simple K12 Discounts >
      • Simple K12 Webinars
    • Silverback Learning Solutions: Mileposts, Teacher Vitae, EdifyAssess >
      • Mileposts
    • SuccessMaker/PEARSON
    • Waterford
    • Fiducius Loan Relief
    • Inspired Classroom Collective Courses >
      • Inspired Classroom IC Challenges™
    • GT Ignite
    • Response to Armed Intruder >
      • Active Resistance Training
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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.
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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.
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