A. Phonemic Awareness: An Essential Step in Learning to Read, Grades K-2

Research has shown that phonemic awareness is an essential building block for reading success. Develop a repertoire of phonemic awareness activities to help students learn how to identify and work with sounds in spoken language. The best part? They will think they are playing games!

B. Fluency: An essential step in learning to read and reading to learn, Grades 1-4

Fluency, the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with good expression is a critical component for reading comprehension. Many of us work with children who have problems in fluency and comprehension even if they have adequate but slow decoding skills. In this workshop, you will learn effective strategies for improving your students' fluency in reading.

C. Primary Writing, Grades 1-3

Explore the teaching structures and classroom systems that develop primary writing. Develop strategies to take students from pictorial story through emergent and into fluent writing.

D. Maintaining Motivation: Extension Activities for Reading Programs, Grades 1-5

Keep your instruction motivating while following a structured reading program. In this workshop, you will develop "motivating" decoding, fluency and comprehension activities you can use to extend reading program.

E. Utilizing Technology in Creating an Effective Writing Program, Grades 2-6

Examine the demands that research and writing place upon the emerging writer. Learn how to use programs like Kidspiration, Keynote, Powerpoint, and Clicker to develop important pre-writing skills and to scaffold the research and writing process so that demands do not become overwhelming.

F. Content Subjects and Literacy: Not an Either/Or Proposition, Grades 3-8

Learn effective strategies to help your students access prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading, organize and summarize information, and make meaningful connections to narrative and expository text.

G. The Churchill School and Center Study Skills Toolkit, Grades 4-8

Study skills are important lifelong skills. Help your students approach their work with effective strategies for organization, managing time, listening, notetaking, reading textbooks and preparing for and taking tests.

H. The Role of Executive Functions in Literacy Development, Grades 2-8

What are executive functions? How do they affect learning? This workshop will provide you with effective teaching strategies to help children develop and use executive functions for improved classroom performance.