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Kim Yaris presenting at Suffolk County Reading CouncilCommon Core State Standards


  • An Overview: What do I Need to Know about the Common Core State Standards to Inform My Teaching?
  • A Close Look at the Anchor Standards: What do they say and how will they impact my ELA instruction?
  • Creating Questions that Nurture Deep Understandings of Text
  • Why Text Complexity Matters: Changing our teaching to meet the new demands in the Common Core State Standards
  • Writing about Reading: Developing the Ability to Take a Position and Argue it Using Text Based Evidence
  • Literacy in the Content Areas: What can Social Studies and Science do to contribute to children’s reading proficiency?

Reading

  • Establishing a Reader’s Workshop
  • Motivating Struggling and Reluctant Readers
  • Reader’s that Think—Improving Student Comprehension
  • Sustaining Independent Reading with Book Choice
  • Creating Libraries that Support Strong Literacy Instruction
  • Developing a Curriculum of Talk to Support Deeper Understanding
  • Planning for Effective Small Group Instruction
    • Guided Reading
    • Strategy Groups
    • Book Clubs
    • Reader's Theater
  • Effectively Assessing Reading Achievement
  • Using the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System
  • Reading Partnerships and Book Clubs
  • Effective Interactive Read-Alouds
  • Conferring:  Moves that Lift the Quality of Student Learning
  • Creating a Year-Long Reading Curriculum
  • Show What You Know - Teaching for Testing Success Without Compromising Best Practices
  • Teaching Literacy in the 21st Century - Unleashing the Potential of Online Learning Tools to Build Better Readers and Writers
  • Mini Lessons That Help Readers Delve Deep Into Meaning
  • Teaching Students to Understand Non-Fiction
  • THAT'S Understanding: Helping Children Monitor Reading for Meaning

Writing

  • Establishing a Writer’s Workshop
  • Developing Units of Study
  • Creating a Year Long Writer’s Workshop Curriculum
  • Researching our Writers—Conferring that Works
  • Improving the Quality of Student Writing
  • Writing Non-Fiction
  • Using Personal Narrative and Memoir Writing to Help Children Share Stories
  • Recognizing what Writer’s Need—Moving Beyond Detail and Description
  • Writing Poetry
  • Using Mentor Texts to Raise the Quality of Student Writing
     
 

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