When very young children are given paper and markers and invited to make books, interesting thinking starts to happen. In this one-day workshop, Katie Ray and Matt Glover will show you how to nurture this thinking so that children begin developing important understandings about the act of composition as they use drawing and writing to make books. They'll show you how they've learned to recognize when young children are using the same kinds of thinking more experienced writers use to compose meaningful texts, and how this recognition has fundamentally changed the way they view the young writers in their care and their responsibility to teach them well.

With examples from children representing a wide range of beginning development, Ray and Glover will demonstrate how they watch for and support emergent understandings about texts and their characteristics, about writing as a process, and about what it means to be a writer. And finally, through demonstration and the use of classroom video, Matt and Katie will show how they utilize three familiar teaching structures—read-aloud, side-by-side teaching, and share time—to further support children's growing understandings as writers.

TUITION

The cost of this workshop is $189.00 per person. If you register 3 or more participants at the same time the cost is $179.00 per person. For Early Bird rate prices, call 1-800-541-2086 ext. 1151.