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Keynote: Be the spark for every writer
Meet writer needs
- Kick-start your writing with 6 key lessons
- Provide focused & efficient writer feedback
- Juggle language foundations & writing standards in PK-2
- Introduce the 6 Traits to students
- Build a PK-2 rubric that grows with your students
- Develop a flexible writing rubric for grades 3-12
- Foster perseverance & resilience with writing
- Revitalize the writing process
Plan powerful units
- Teach opinion, informative, & narrative writing skills in PK-2
- Propel students from basic persuasives to sophisticated arguments
- Target essential skills in informative writing
- Elevate narrative writing for test success
- Scaffold a yearlong writing curriculum
- Align conventions within writing units
- Design PK-2 writing units that meet the standards
- Factor in 4 principles when planning units in grades 3-12
- Write about & beyond texts read in PK-2
Write across subjects
Conquer state assessments
- Improve thinking to impact written responses
- Target short constructed-response writing
- Synthesize ideas before writing
- Dissect author moves within literary analyses
- Crack the compare-contrast code
- Master evidence-based responses
- Decode & design writing prompts
- Create a reading & writing calendar for test prep
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Meet writer needs
- Kick-start your writing with 6 key lessons
- Provide focused & efficient writer feedback
- Juggle language foundations & writing standards in PK-2
- Introduce the 6 Traits to students
- Build a PK-2 rubric that grows with your students
- Develop a flexible writing rubric for grades 3-12
- Foster perseverance & resilience with writing
- Revitalize the writing process
Plan powerful units
- Teach opinion, informative, & narrative writing skills in PK-2
- Propel students from basic persuasives to sophisticated arguments
- Target essential skills in informative writing
- Elevate narrative writing for test success
- Scaffold a yearlong writing curriculum
- Align conventions within writing units
- Design PK-2 writing units that meet the standards
- Factor in 4 principles when planning units in grades 3-12
- Write about & beyond texts read in PK-2
Write across subjects
- Blend core knowledge with writing instruction
- Deepen math understanding through writing
- Target teamwork & communication in collaborative writing projects
- Determine note-worthy text details
- Blend text evidence & explanations
- Demonstrate comprehension via succinct summary writing
Deliver writing lessons
- Develop ideas for stronger writing
- Craft engaging beginnings & powerful endings
- Teach convention skills in 3 steps
- Improve basic sentence conventions
- Make mini-lesson magic
- Write with the WOW! factor
Conquer state assessments
- Improve thinking to impact written responses
- Target short constructed-response writing
- Synthesize ideas before writing
- Dissect author moves within literary analyses
- Crack the compare-contrast code
- Master evidence-based responses
- Decode & design writing prompts
- Create a reading & writing calendar for test prep
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- Modernize classroom collaboration from Post-Its to Padlet
- Utilize the perfect pair– Canva & Google
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