English Language Arts

 Reading Comes Alive with Yoga

Use yoga as a way to enhance your literacy program with students. This is one of the fourteen elements of YogaKids.

Location:        CNYTC                                  

Date:               April 1

Time:              4:15 - 6:15

Audience:       PreK-6 Assistants, Therapists, Counselors

Presenter:       Julie Daniel, Certified Trainer

All Sorts of Sorts

Research indicates that identifying similarities and differences is a key strategy for increasing student achievement. Learn how sorting magnetic letters, pictures, words, and sentences can improve phonological awareness, letter formation, word study, and comprehension.

Presenter:   Amy White, Teacher

Avoiding Journal Phobia

Spend two hours and experience a variety of journals to use in the primary classroom. These journals will have your students begging for journal time. Each journal has a specific purpose that will provide both practice and feedback on what you are teaching and what your students are learning.

Presenter:   David Huebner, Teacher

Best Books for Beginning Readers

This booktalk features the latest and best literature, fiction and non-fiction, for students to enjoy on their own. Titles include books for both the newly independent reader and those ready for chapter books.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Beyond Guided Reading:  Tailoring Your Strategy-Based Instruction                   

This workshop will provide numerous tips, tools, and techniques to integrate a successful strategy-based reading approach in your classroom.  Blending components of guided reading and differentiated instruction, this model can be used to improve comprehension for all intermediate students, including struggling readers.  Methods to  tackle the challenges of content-area nonfiction successfully will be explored, as will ways to build fluency and  background knowledge.

Books, Books, Books: Connecting with Boys

For those of you who were unable to attend this workshop last year, this is a repeat of the session presented last fall. This booktalk will feature recent titles which appeal specifically to boys and other passive readers.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Books, Books, Books...for Intermediate

What’s new in literature for intermediate? This booktalk will highlight some of the best new titles in fiction and nonfiction for students in grades 3-6. Take home a list of recommended titles discussed in the workshop.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Teacher

Books, Books, Books...for Primary

Get a head start on the new school year with a preview of some of the best new titles for primary fiction and nonfiction. Take home a list of recommended titles you can use in September!

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Teacher

Booktalk - 6+1 Traits of Writing

Empower your writers by teaching them how to read with a writer’s eye. Participate in trade book lessons that model each trait and discover the newest resources available for teaching the 6+1 Traits of Writing.

Presenter:   Mary Alice Hueber, Teacher

Books, Books, Books...Folktales and More!

A booktalk featuring some of the best recent additions to the 398.2's aka, folktales. We'll also take a look at modern variants, as well as versions of standard tales from around the world for use in classrooms K-6.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Call the CNYTC to customize this workshop in your building.

Books, Books, Books...Poetry and More!

Just in time for National Poetry Month, this workshop will feature some of the best new poetry books to use with students in grades K-6.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Books, Books, Books...Social Studies

This spring's booktalk will feature some of the best in recent fiction and non fiction titles that support the K-6 social studies curriculum with special emphasis on biographies.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Books for the BETWEENS    

This workshop presents in booktalk format some of the best in recent fiction and non-fiction for grades 2-4.  Using titles especially for students between primary and intermediate grades, this workshop will highlight trade books that teachers can incorporate in the content area as well as high interest titles to encourage independent reading.

Presenter:       Barbara Jones, Teacher

Booktalk-Mountains Beyond Mountains

Meet Dr. Paul Farmer, the subject, and Tracy Kidder, the author of this year's CNY Reads selection. Learn about the work of both men followed by discussion of Mountains Beyond Mountains. Participants will receive a copy of the book to read a month prior to the workshop. Classroom sets of books will be available for loan.

Presenter:   Wendy Davenport, Teacher

Booktalk: Strategies That Work

Come explore the new comprehension strategy materials created by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis in the second edition of Strategies That Work. These six strategies will be discussed indepth with many practical classroom applications. Participants will be inspired to model these strategies with some complimentary teaching tools.

Presenter:   Mary Alice Hueber, Teacher

Breaking the Code: Reading Comprehension in Math

Help students comprehend math content by implementing simple, effective, and time-efficient reading strategies. Leave with ideas that you can immediately implement and see results!

Presenter:   Audrey Mastroleo, Teacher

Breaking the Code: Reading Comprehension in Science

Help students comprehend science content by implementing simple, effective, and time-efficient reading strategies. Leave with ideas that you can immediately implement and see results!

Presenter:   Audrey Mastroleo, Teacher

Children’s Literature: Professional Study Group

Meet with classroom, library, and reading teachers to explore children's literature. The group will determine the topics for the six sessions. The first session will focus on gender issues related to motivating students to read. Come with questions and titles to share.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

CNY Reads Simic          

Central New York’s One Community, One Book program enters its seventh year with a book of poetry, Sixty Poems, by poet laureate Charles Simic.  This year’s selection lends itself well to the classroom as teachers can select individual poems to use with students.  The workshop will familiarize teachers with Simic’s work, point out student-accessible poems, provide background information on the program, Simicand poet laureates, and provide hands-on material for working with Simic’s poetry.  Some books will be available for loan.

Presenter:       Dianne Emmick, Teacher

Comprehending Conversations     

This three-part series will utilize the collaborative structure of Cognitive Coaching and the thinking skills of Habits of Mind to support children to think "about, within, and beyond" the text. The skill sets of non-verbal rapport, response behaviors - pause, paraphrasing and mediative questions will be taught to strengthen the attitudes and dispositions that successful thinkers use while comprehending text.

Comprehension Strategies Using Read Alouds

The comprehension strategies of making connections, questioning, determining importance, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing will be discussed and modeled. Introductory read aloud lessons will be developed by participants. Bring your favorite read alouds (10-15) to develop lessons and share.

Presenter:   Roseann Milliman & Julie Smith, Teachers

Connections to Reality: Creating Relevant Contexts for Writing

Most of what we watch on television is not reality, but good writing needs to reflect realistic views of the writer's world. Give students the opportunity to explore relationships between themselves and the rest of the world, and discover ways to turn their reality into effective writing in any genre.

Presenter:   Herm Card, Teacher

Contemporary Novels for the HS English Classroom

Explore some contemporary novels and techniques for using them in the classroom. The presenter will discuss Chris Crutcher's Chinese Handcuffs, Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees, and Alice McDermott's That Night. Participants should be prepared to share some of their favorites as well.

Presenter:   Marcia Hayden-Horan, Teacher

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Understanding Media

Help students fight the battle for clarity and understanding in everyday life. Prepare them to take on the role of persuaders - lessons in advertising and political campaigning broaden their reasoning, communication and presentation skills, while enabling them to interpret and cope with the barrage of media messages that target them every day.

Presenter:   Herm Card, Teacher and Author

Equipped for Reading Success

Presenter:       David Kilpatrick, School Pyschologist

Genre-Talk

Featuring the best titles from the past several years for readers in the middle grades, this booktalk will compare and contrast the characteristics of each of the main genres of fiction (fantasy, mystery, realistic, historical and science fiction) as well as highlight recommended titles in each genre.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Guided Reading in the Intermediate Classroom

Discover a modified guided reading approach that focuses on comprehension building activities that will help students become thinkers while they read. This easy to implement program will help teachers set up or add to their existing strategies.

Presenter:   Kevin Ellis, Teacher

Guided Reading in the Intermediate Classroom

Instructors will present their experience with implementing this successful reading strategy. Discussion will include: grouping, conducting sessions, materials and assessment. Bring a favorite classroom book.

Presenters:   Sandra Athans & Denise Devine, Teachers

Join the Conspiracy

This workshop is designed both for educators who have read part or all of North Star Conspiracy or for those who wish to read the book with their class. Participants will discuss the issues and themes of the book and activities to use in the classroom. A copy of the book will be given to any participant who has not yet received one.

Presenter:   Dianne Emmick, Teacher

Just Add Ink: Poetry Teaching and Writing Condensed

The recipe for writing is simple…just add ink to the basic ingredients. Acquire those basic ingredients in this workshop that condenses thirty years of teaching and writing experience into one inspiring hour.

Presenter:   Herm Card, Teacher and Author

Literacy Bins

An exciting twist on literacy centers, the use of literacy bins is tailored to meet the needs of intermediate learners. Designed to support reading comprehension, the bins are used to build background knowledge, develop student fluency, and encourage additional practice. Explore ways to use literacy bins and devise activities that align with units of instruction.

Presenters:   Sandra Athans & Denise Devine, Teachers

Literacy Centers  

Don't miss this opportunity to create literacy centers for your PreK-1 classroom using Ellison letter cutters and dies.  Please bring multi-colored construction paper, borders, stickers, scissors and a ruler.  

Presenter:       Jennifer Strathdee, Teacher

Literacy Work Stations

Learn how to implement, differentiate, maintain, and sustain literacy work stations in your kindergarten, first, or second grade classroom. Create and share work stations that are valuable for reviewing skills, establishing independent work habits, and allow for deep investigation of content area study.

Presenters:   Auddie Mastroleo & Amber Mazur, Teachers

Literacy Work Stations Grades 3-6

Learn how to implement, differentiate, maintain, and sustain literacy work stations in your third, fourth, fifth, or sixth grade classroom. Create and share work stations that are valuable for reviewing skills, establishing independent work habits, and allow for deep investigation of content area study.

Presenters:   Audrey Mastroleo & Amber Mazur, Teachers

Literacy Work Stations - Part II        

Learn how to implement, differentiate, maintain, and sustain literacy work stations in your classroom.  Participants will create work stations that are valuable for reviewing skills, establishing independent work habits, and allowing for deep investigation of content area study. Prerequisite - Part 1

Presenters:     Audrey Mastroleo & Amber Mazur, Teachers

Make and Share Literacy Bins          

An exciting twist to the popular literacy centers, the use of literacy bins is tailored to meet the unique needs of intermediate-level learners. Designed to support reading comprehension instruction, the thematic and content-aligned bins are used to build background knowledge, develop student fluency, and encourage additional practice with troublesome comprehension strategies. Participants will review ways to use literacy bins and then engage in hands-on activities to plan, create, and share activities for their own classroom bins.

Bring your laptop (optional) and/or a flash drive.

Make and Share Read-Along Guides

Teaching professionals familiar with the Quality Comprehension model will want to participate in this collaborative hands-on workshop.  Teachers will create student practice booklets that will jump-start their guided-reading instruction.  Develop an instructional unit plan and a guide to use with a specific book or basal reader, genre, or other content and share with others.  Participants can create guides on computers or assemble them using materials provided.

Prerequisite:   Beyond Guided Reading workshop

Bring:

Ø Quality Comprehension book

Ø Laptop (optional)

Ø Flashdrive

Make and Take Literacy Work Stations

Don't miss this opportunity to make and take literacy activities for your classroom. Explore literacy related websites. Learn to create work stations using Ellison cutters and dies. Please bring multi-colored construction paper, scissors and a ruler.

Presenter:       Jennifer Strathdee, Teacher

Making Books For and With Children

Can't find that "Just Right" book to use with your students to promote their independent reading? Learn how to write it yourself! Fiction, nonfiction, high frequency words. Phonics and concept books will be demonstrated. Learn how to make step, pop-up, pull-tab, and Ellison cut books and more which highlight students' own writing.

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Teacher

Making Books - Make & Take

Put your new-found knowledge about making books for and with children to practical use. Come and write books for an instructional purpose— including teaching reading strategies, high frequency words, comprehension, and fluency. Use your creativity to make books in exciting formats— including pop-up, step, flap, shape, and people books.

Prerequisite:   Writing Books For & With Children

     (from Fall offerings)

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Teacher

Matching Literature with Writing

Using literature (trade books, novels and picture books) in your mini-lessons can be an excellent way to support your writing workshop. Specific genres, skills and strategies will be explored that can assist students in their writing pieces. Please bring a piece of literature you have used in your classroom.

Presenters:   Rich Cappelli & Jamie Durgey, Teachers

Matching Picture Books with Writing Strategies and Literacy Techniques

Picture books are perfect for illustrating different writing techniques. They can be used as a model for each step of the writing process. Leave with a bibliography of books that you can use to improve your students’ writing. Please bring a picture book that you use in your writing classroom.

Presenters:     Rich Cappelli & Jamie Durgey, Teachers

Multisensory Reference Notebook

Participants will receive an overview of resources related to multisensory language instruction associated with the Orton Gillingham program. Learn how to implement a student or teacher reference notebook in your reading program. Bring reading materials to begin creating a reference notebook.

Presenter:   Joy Hathaway, Teacher

Multisensory Reference Notebook 1

The Student Notebook is an important component of multisensory structured language instruction. Participants will receive an overview of a variety of resources related to multisensory language instruction associated with Orton Gillingham based approaches and programs. Learn how to implement a student and/or teacher reference notebook into your reading program. Bring reading materials to begin creating a reference notebook.

Presenter:   Joy Hathaway, Teacher

Noticing Notebooks: Helping Kids Respond with Wonderment and Awe

This three-part series will uncover the attitudes and dispositions that successful writers utilize as they breathe in the world around them. Responding with Wonderment and Awe is one of the sixteen Habits of Mind that Art Costa and Bena Kallick have presented that support thinking and decision making. During this series we'll uncover eight strategies that help children with this habit using a Noticing Notebook. You'll have the chance to implement each strategy with your students and then extend your work with the support of others each month.

Organizing an Early Literacy Night

Bring parents on board by providing skilled support for their children at home. Set up a literacy night that teaches parents strategies they can easily use. Receive resources including a CD to successfully implement your own literacy parent night.

Presenter:   Deborah Wood, Reading Specialist

Phonics “Phun”

Phonics, chunks, word work--whatever you call it, sound-symbol correspondences are an essential element in reading and writing. Guiding principles used to make instructional decisions will be discussed and activities will be shared.

Presenter:   Amy White, Teacher

Phonics Fun-damentals

Phonics, chunks, word work--whatever you call it, sound-symbol correspondences are an essential element in reading and writing. Guiding principals used to make instructional decisions will be discussed, with a variety of practice activities.

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Specialist

Phonic Skills and Activities

Review current research and information on phonics instruction. Strategies for teaching skills, creating activities, transferring skills, and assessing student learning will be shared and discussed. Develop supplemental activities for your classroom.

Presenter: Joy Hathaway, Teacher

Poetry - Love It, But Can’t Fit It In?

Poetry can be challenging, rewarding, creative and fascinating for students and teachers alike. Come explore it dimensions: how poems appeal to the eyes, ears, mind and sense of humor. Lots of ideas for presentation and student activities across the curriculum - so now it fits in, too!

Presenter:   Lynda Rill, Teacher

Promoting Emergent Literacy Through Storytelling

This interactive workshop will focus on the use of storytelling to promote listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in the emergent and fluent reader. Participants will learn and apply easy storytelling techniques to include: how to effectively tell a story without a book, how movement leads to language development, turning a book into a literacy center, and promoting sequencing, imagery and language skills.

Presenter:   Regi Carpenter, National Storyteller

Teaching Children with Dyslexia 

Discover the newest developments in the area of teaching children with dyslexia as we listen to and discuss selected sessions from the 2008 International Dyslexia Association Conference. Topics will include brain function related to reading and memory, phonics through movement, and strategies for LD/ADHD students.

Presenter:       Mary Alice Hueber, Teacher

The Latest and Greatest in Children’s Literature

Featuring all new titles published in the 2006-2007 school year, this booktalk will highlight recommended trade books for use across the curriculum in K-6 classrooms.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

The Newest in Children’s Literature

Featuring all new titles published in the 2007-2008 school year, this book talk will highlight recommended trade books, both fiction and nonfiction, for use at the elementary level.

Presenter:       Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

The “Simple View” of Writing

This workshop will demonstrate how research has broken down written expression into specific mental and academic skills. Understanding these skills will equip teachers with the ability to assess why a student struggles in writing, and prepare teachers with tools to improve the weak areas.

Presenter:   David Kilpatrick, School Psychologist

Topics in Literacy

Join a study group with other classroom, library and reading teachers to explore and discuss topics related to literacy at the elementary/middle school level. The group will determine a specific topic for each of the five sessions. The focus of the first session will be home-school connections. Come with questions for group discussions as well as successful practices based on your own professional exploration and experiences.

Presenter:   Barbara Jones, Library Media Specialist

Reading Comes Alive with Yoga       

Use yoga as a way to enhance your literacy program with your students. This is one of the fourteen elements of YogaKids, which works to breathe life into learning.

Presenter:       Julie Daniel, Speech Pathologist &

Storytelling

This study group will introduce teachers to the art of storytelling. Participants will hear stories suitable for their classroom, receive resources to use with students, discuss strategies for using storytelling to improve reading fluency and comprehension, and experiment with performing stories for elementary students.

Presenter:   Mary Rys, Teacher

Strategies for Teaching Reading Fluency

Reading with fluency is one of the key elements of effective reading instruction. Learn the components of fluency and the factors that affect its development. Many activities and lessons for improving reading fluency will be presented.

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Specialist

Super Spelling Strategy

Learn an effective, fast approach by using a student's visual memory filed to help support retaining spelling words or math facts. This technique is part of NeuroLinguistic Programming.

Presenter:   Joan Littlehale, Speech Therapist

Taking & Analyzing Running Records

Running Records help the teacher discover which strategies are being used and can guide instructional planning. Learn how to use the coding system to record students' reading, three ways to score the running record, and to make instructional decisions based on the analysis.

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Specialist

Teaching Struggling Readers

This workshop is an intensive orientation to direct instruction of the phonological code. Topics include reading theory, brain research and dyslexia. Assessment, phonological awareness, syllable types, sound boards and the 5-step plan based on the Orton Gillingham approach will be discussed.

Presenter:   Deborah Wood, Reading Specialist

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Tiny Tales:  Promoting Emergent Literacy Through Storytelling      

Tiny Tales provides teachers with stories that promote, stimulate and reinforce story structure, character development and vocabulary skills with our youngest students. Songs, stamps, sand, small objects, dolls, puppets and other props become ways to sequence, retell and develop familiar and original stories. Each participant will be provided with a packet of stories and supplies to use in the classroom.

Presenter:       Regi Carpenter, National Storyteller

Tiny Tales:  Alive in the Classroom

Continue the saga of Tiny Tales and attend this followup workshop to learn new stories while sharing, reviewing and expanding on the stories you experienced in  the full day workshop.  Enjoy sharing your experience with one another, creating new lessons, and promoting emergent literacy skills in your classroom. This is an excellent opportunity for teachers to learn from one another. 

Prerequisite:   Tiny Tales - Promoting Emergent Literacy Through Storytelling

Understanding the Effect of Media on Education

It is critical for students to be able to speak the language of the media that targets them as its prime consumer group. This workshop focuses on persuasive communication, as writer and reader. Help students fight the battle for clarity and understanding in everyday life as they broaden their reasoning, communication and presentation skills.

Presenter:   Herm Card, Teacher

Using Bookmarks

Presenters will discuss their use of a tool called a bookmark to enhance small group reading instruction with students and focus on the instruction of key comprehension strategies. Bring a favorite book to create your own bookmark. Sample materials will be displayed.

Presenters:   Sandra Athans & Denise Devine, Teachers

Using Scrolls & Textmapping

Textmapping is a literacy activity that helps make comprehension visible by marking the text to identify key features and important information. Combined with scrolls— a linear version of the text— students see the connection between text structure, text organization, and meaning. This textmapping strategy can be applied to learning reading strategies that promote independent reading and comprehension.

Presenter:   Amy White, Reading Teacher

Word Mapping & Phonemic Awareness

This workshop will present a comprehensive look at the acquisition of word recognition skills. The presentations will address both the mental skills necessary for reading acquisition with research-based teaching approaches. These techniques are consistent with the National Reading Panel. A phonemic awareness manual will be provided.

Presenter:   David Kilpatrick, School Psychologist

The Words We Use

Vocabulary is a vital component to student success. Participants will receive an overview of the latest vocabulary research. Strategies for choosing and teaching target words will be shared and discussed. Vocabulary resources, games, and teaching approaches will be shared. Develop activities for vocabulary related to a specific grade level and/or content area.

Presenter:   Joy Hathaway, Teacher

Where Does Writing Fit?

Are you overwhelmed by writing strategies such as Performance by Design, 6+1 Traits, and 4 Square?  Learn how to incorporate these and other strategies into your writing workshop environment.  Explore theory, the workshop structure, basics of writing and units of study. 

Presenters:     Rich Cappelli & Jamie Durgey, Teachers

Writing in the Content Area

In today's world of assessment, writing in the content area is more than just taking notes. Have fun with your students as they produce quality writing in math, social studies, and science using the R.A.F.T. method. They'll like doing it and you'll like the results.

Presenter:   David Huebner, Teacher

Writing Workshop Support Group

This group will meet throughout the year (6 sessions) to share lessons and strategies that support writing workshop in the classroom. The topics and meeting dates will be determined at the first session. Please bring a writing success, question or concern that you have to the first session.

Writing Workshop Workout

Learn the basics of the writing process with an emphasis on setting up the writing workshop environment. Topics include the steps of the writing process, modeling, mini-lessons, conferencing, notebooks, sharing, and generating ideas. Point of view, poetry, and fairy tale writing will be explored.

Presenters:   Rich Cappelli & Jamie Durgey, Teachers