Cancelled: Word Study Workshop for Grades 3-8

Struggling with your word study program? Don't know what word study principles to teach? What should your curriculum include? Is there some program that you should purchase? All of these questions will be answered within this Word Study Workshop. Participants will examine the rationales and theories underpinning the teaching of phonics, spelling, and vocabulary of an authentic literacy. Join us to investigate essential categories of learning and consider ways in which word study fits into a broader language and literacy framework. Together, we will analyze teaching and engage in inquiry that will deepen your understanding of how words work and serve as a set of instructional practices for effective teaching of a range of students.

Workshop Learning Targets
Participants will:

• Explore the rationales for the importance of instruction in vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills in the intermediate grades and middle school.
• Understand the relationship between phonics, spelling, and vocabulary, and how students develop competencies over time.
• Explore the five essential categories of learning: letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning/vocabulary, and word structure.
• Examine the importance of word consciousness and how to nurture in students an awareness, interest, and curiosity of words.
• Build knowledge of how to provide explicit inquiry-based instruction that helps all students, including those who are learning the English language, develop essential understandings of how words work.
• Learn how to teach for word knowledge in whole group, small group, and individual instructional settings.
• Create an assessment system that measures the word learning knowledge of students.

Who should attend?
Grades 3?8 teachers (classroom and support), reading specialists, curriculum and instruction coordinators and principals.

Disclaimer:

CESA 6 makes every effort to accommodate basic dietary needs such as vegetarian, gluten free and basic food allergies. Because of the number of meals served and the number of items used each day, along with food product changes from our food vendors, we cannot guarantee that every allergen in the food served will be identified and labeled. Guests concerned with food allergies must be aware of this risk. CESA 6 does not assume liability for adverse reactions to food consumed or items one may come into contact with while eating at a CESA 6 event. To better serve our guests with dietary restrictions or allergies, please go into your myQuickReg account and update the special accommodations section. Notice of a special dietary need must be made in advance of the event.

Cancellation Policy:

Any registration cancellation must be received at least 8 business days before event in order for a full conference fee refund to be issued (full refunds do not include service fees. Service fees are nonrefundable).Registration cancellations received 1-7 business days before an event, a refund, minus $50 for each participant, will be issued. Persons who are registered, but not in attendance on the day of the session ("no call, no show") will be charged the full registration fee. CESA 6 reserves the right to cancel any session due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by email if a cancellation occurs.