Using State-of-the-Art Strategies for Teaching Writing to Maximize Your Students' Growth in Writing and Reading, Grades K-1

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Viewers will explore step-by-step sequences that help young children move through stages of writing with confidence and success. The program also demonstrates state-of-the-art management techniques, teaching strategies and conferencing techniques that combine to boost children's writing and reading abilities. (This program includes a brief overview of modeled writing. For more complete treatment of this topic, see Using Modeled Writing to Maximize Your Students' Growth in Writing and Reading, K-1.)

Viewers learn how to:

• strengthen literacy instruction with strategies and techniques from model primary programs in the United States and New Zealand
• combine the efficiency of whole group instruction and the power of individualized instruction
• incorporate powerful skills instruction into the writing process
• facilitate young writers' transition to correct, conventional spelling and punctuation without stifling their ability to write exciting and meaningful text
• increase the quality and quantity of ALL student writing AND reading ... emergent through fluent levels

Using Modeled Writing To Maximize Your Students' Growth In Writing and Reading,
Grades K-1

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

The modeling in this video program incorporates a multi-leveled array of literacy learning within an interactive setting rich in student involvement.

Viewers will see students at a variety of literacy levels learning together as the modeling process reinforces elements of phonemic awareness, phonics skills, conventions of print, extension of text, uses of descriptive language, and other key reading and writing techniques.

Viewers learn how to:

• artfully use a daily model to boost the literacy of ALL students
• load each model with multiple levels of learning so that ALL students are engaged and growing in literacy
• generate meaningful topics for modeling with students every day of kindergarten and first grade
• incorporate techniques that meet the special needs of emergent writers and readers
• involve every student in taking topics from conception to completion