Workshops may be extended and combined to suit your time frame, from 60 minutes to full day.  Contact Lori Jamison to customize a program for your professional development needs.

Marvelous Mini Lessons for Teaching Beginning Writing

In this activity-packed session, you’ll collaborate with colleagues to analyze actual student writing samples and discuss developmentally-appropriate instruction for students at all stages. We’ll look at the building independence through the writing workshop and how to effectively use modeled, shared and interactive writing instruction.  Lori will share dozens of practical writing activities, tools and literature links that you will be able to easily adapt to a range of ages and stages in your classroom tomorrow.

A Fresh Approach to Six Trait Writing

Meet the “trait mates” – Donna Details, Willie Word Choice, Vicki Voice, Ollie Order, Sammy Sounds Good and Charlie Conventions – and learn how these characters can help your students understand the elements of effective writing.   In this session, Lori will guide you as you explore actual student writing and she’ll share literature links, mini lessons and teacher-tested ideas for helping your students grow as writers.

Learning to Write, Writing to Learn:  Making the Reading-Writing Connection

Learning logs and reader response activities are tools for using writing to organize thinking and clarifying ideas.  In this session, we’ll look at these and other ways we use writing to learn. We’ll also share ideas for using literature for learning to write – picture books and poetry to teach the writer’s craft.