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SUMMARY:Tuck Test Prep into Your Best Literacy Practices Across the School Year *VIRTUAL Workshop* facilitated by Deborah Linscott-Feinstein - 8:30-2:30pm
DESCRIPTION:Audience: administrators\, literacy coaches\, reading teachers\, grades 3-8 ENL\, general and special education teachers Are you looking to seamlessly integrate test preparation into your daily curriculum without sacrificing authentic literacy instruction? Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help Grades 3-8 educators maximize the performance of their students in reading and on the NYS ELA exams. This seminar will provide you with for organizing and implementing ELA test preparation seamlessly into your narrative\, argument\, and informational reading and writing units. We will move beyond rote practice across the year\, instead treating the state test as a “transfer genre” so you can reteach transferable strategies already embedded within your reading and writing programs. Join us for a hands-on day tailoring vocabulary study\, close reading\, multi-media activities and writing strategies designed to meet the NYS ELA expectations later in the school year. Tap the profuse resources yielded from brain-friendly strategies such as: -embedding academic language and analytical question stems across the year that help maximize the performance of your students on the NYS ELA. -incorporating multisensory activities to help your strugglers synthesize nonfiction text features with informational text passages that resemble test passages but match your existing units. -teaching from academic word lists taken from the NYS ELA. -using instructional charts that work well across a variety of units to bolster the academic language of the ELA. -scaffolding metacognitive strategies for tackling short texts. -teaching paragraph and essay structures that foster good writing while accessing the writing structures of the NYS ELA.\nFlyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ycwcb98wl8vtWZg37yCHgBs4zKcPOWtJ/view?usp=sharing\nRegistration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13208&I=5393446
URL:https://www.wsboces.org/event/tuck-test-prep-into-your-best-literacy-practices-across-the-school-year-virtual-workshop-facilitated-by-deborah-linscott-feinstein-830-230pm/
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