PALS (K-1) Workshop
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Last Date to Register: 11/4/2009 12:01 AM
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Help Your K-1 Students Improve Their Reading Skills!!!
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) Workshop
Kindergarten – First Grade
CESA #3 - Friday, November 6, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Workshop Description: Participants will learn to implement PALS for kindergarten and first grade. PALS is a field-tested, teacher-friendly, inexpensive reading-readiness program. K-PALS and First-Grade PALS promote phonological awareness, sound-letter correspondence, decoding, and fluency for beginning readers. K-PALS includes two components: Sound Play (phonological awareness) and Sounds and Words (decoding). First-Grade PALS continues the Sounds and Words activities and introduces Partner Reading, a fluency-building activity. Following a brief presentation summarizing research findings, the presenter will provide hands-on practice of all PALS activities including a simulation of a PALS classroom, teacher-directed lessons, and peer-mediated practice.
To learn more about PALS go to: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/pals/library/readingres.html
About the Presenter: Loulee Yen is the PALS Outreach Coordinator and also coordinates a large-scale PALS project at Vanderbilt University for Dr. Doug Fuchs that includes three sites in Nashville, Minneapolis, and South Texas. She worked on the development of kindergarten and first-grade reading PALS and has worked with hundreds of PALS teachers over the past decade. Loulee has worked with many school districts to help teachers learn how to implement reading PALS in their classrooms.
*Please Note: Loulee will be presenting from Vanderbilt via interactive video conferencing.
Audience: Kindergarten and first grade regular education teachers, reading teachers, special educators, curriculum directors, school psychologists, principals, paraprofessionals, and directors of special education.
Location: CESA #3, 1300 Industrial Drive, Fennimore, WI
Agenda:
1. PALS Background: Research and Development
2. Learning About PALS
3. Sound Play (phonological awareness activities)
4. Sounds and Words (decoding activities)
5. Partner Reading (fluency building)
6. Putting It All Together
7. Implementation Issues
Fee: (Includes PALS manual and lunch/refreshments)
$100.00 for non-consortium members
$50.00 for special education consortium members
(Barneveld, Benton, Cassville, Ithaca, Potosi, Shullsburg, Southwestern and Weston)
For further information, contact Jim Nelson at CESA #3, 1-800-261-0000, (608) 822-3276, Ext 211, via E-mail: jnelson@cesa3.k12.wi.us