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Tricks to Turn Even Struggling Spellers-Writers into Confident Users of Written English
​Friday, March 22, 2019, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Location:  Montec Building, 1121 East Broadway, Missoula, MT in the large conference room
Presenter:  Ann Ellsworth
Registration:  $99
For educators of g
rades K-6
6 OPI renewal units
Coffee and snacks provided.  Lunch on your own.
Course # 18551011

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Spelling seems to have disappeared as technology has increased. Yet knowing how to spell is vitally important for many reasons. Learn some sure-fire strategies to help students become independent and accurate spellers. Easy-to-remember spelling rules for primary and upper elementary students will be shared—and these are rules that most teachers haven’t been exposed to.We will also learn fun ways to make the spelling knowledge “stick.” They will transform how you teach spelling! Moreover, teachers will easily be able to incorporate these teaching strategies into their existing lessons. We will explore how methods help hesitant students, who are unwilling to take risks, can become more self-assured. As a result of their new-found confidence, students will become more confident in themselves as writers and be more willing to take risks with “big” words (instead of sticking to safe “little” words.)
Bring your laptops or wireless device.

Testimonial:  When pre-service teachers were taught these rules, they shook their heads in disbelief at how simple these were to understand and yet how they never remembered learning them. Even though English is a complex language and has competing logics, there is a way to empower student spellers. Knowledge is power.
​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 and as an instructor for WMPLC.   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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Register at:  https://goo.gl/forms/7ZC0X4szCqOOQ0mB2

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