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Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English

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Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 10/10/2009 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 10/10/2009 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 3
Agency Assistant: Diane Alm 608-822-2141
Location: Wilderness Resort - Glacier Canyon
Facility: Glacier Canyon
Date/Time:
10/12/2009 08:30 AM - 03:00 PM
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Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English offers an exciting new take on English language instruction—the language workshop.
Language workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing you the flexibility to scaffold instruction by
modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking
strategies. Students will find the guidance and opportunity necessary for acquiring language, learn the structures of discussion
and debate, and think through ideas and texts. Nancy Akhavan details how to make language workshop happen in your classroom,
sharing frameworks and strategies that help children:
• Share ideas, decisions, and understandings orally and in writing
• Think critically by analyzing, synthesizing, and comparing texts
• Acquire and apply the conventions of English
• Gain language skills through authentic literacy lessons.
Warm, supportive, and complete with classroom-tested units of study, example workshop lessons, ready-to-use graphic organizers,
and a rich booklist designed specifically for use with language workshop, Nancy Akhavan's Help! My Kids Don't All
Speak English is going to make a difference to every member of your classroom.
Nancy Akhavan is the author of the Heinemann titles The Title I Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading, K–
3 (2008), Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English (2006), How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment &
Standards, and Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible (2004). Nancy is the Assistant Superintend
of Middle Schools for Fresno Unified School District, a large urban district in Central California. She is
passionate about helping all children learn; she spends every spare minute in a classroom working with
teachers to provide literacy instruction that works for all children. Her experience includes time as a principal,
elementary school bilingual teacher, bilingual resource teacher, and professional developer for over
seventeen years.

Participant Cancellation Policy: You must contact CESA #3 at least one week prior to the scheduled event to cancel and receive a full refund of your registration fee. Cancellations not received at least one week prior to the registered event will be charged the full registration fee. CESA #3 reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by e-mail or phone if a workshop is cancelled. If a participant is a 'no show' the school will be billed for the registration fee, or loss of the 'free' attendance slot. Accommodations: If you need an accommodation to participate including interpreter services (sign language or other spoken language) please email the workshop contact to set up these services. A two-week notice is appreciated. CESA #3 is handicapped accessible.