Keeping Students Actively Engaged in Reading Activities While You Teach Small Groups

(Grades 3-6)

Presented by Jaime Bailey
Nationally Recognized Teacher and Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 3-6

Practical strategies to ensure student accountability for high-quality work while working independently
Engaging ideas for involving students in reading, researching and reporting on informational text
Dozens of strategies to build readers’ comprehension of key ideas, craft and structure of a text and integrate knowledge and skills
New, easy-to-implement technology integration ideas to keep students reading and writing while you teach small groups
Classroom video clips, demonstrations and an extensive resource handbook packed with practical ideas to incorporate Common Core standards with easy-to-use ideas, materials and activities

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Intermediate-grade students at every literacy level need direct, small group reading instruction. But what are the rest of the students doing while the teachers work with instructional-level reading groups?

This outstanding seminar has been designed to help you answer this key question with practical, easy-to-use methods designed for grades 3-6. You will see video clips of intermediate students actively engaged in small group guided reading instruction while other students are participating in a wide variety of independent literacy-building activities.

To help you implement this type of powerful literacy instruction and independent practice, Jaime Bailey will demonstrate and explain an array of practical organizational systems and time-efficient monitoring strategies. Jaime will share specific methods for supporting your students as they strengthen their vocabularies, fluency and comprehension.

You’ll leave this exciting, new seminar with the information you need to establish straightforward management routines for your literacy program and hold your students accountable for independent work – all without spending unreasonable amounts of time on preparation and grading.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Keep Your Students Actively Engaged While You Teach Small Groups
Walk away with practical strategies to put the best, current research to work for you and your students … How to incorporate Common Core standards in a wide variety of independent literacy activities
See Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Text Discussions and Presentations
Boost students’ ability to discuss text concisely and coherently, linking to the remarks of others … Observe video clips with real student demonstrations
Prepare and Hold Students Accountable for High-Quality Independent Work
Learn the best methods for helping students become independent while holding them accountable for high-quality work … Pick and choose from a wide selection of independent activities that work
Incorporate the Best, New Technology into Literacy Activities
How to use QR Codes, Google Tools and outstanding websites that digital natives find engaging … Take advantage of the best new tech resources that give you time to work with small groups
Design Activities that Deepen Your Students’ Thinking
Help your students become more thoughtful when engaged in independent reading activities … Dozens of valuable ideas for creating more meaning and interest in independent activities
Build Fluency with Independent Activities
Practical, ready-to-use techniques for strengthening word automaticity and expression as well as accuracy
Increase Your Students’ Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
Numerous, meaningful ways to build content area vocabulary … Tips to strengthen your students’ background knowledge
Increase Informational Text Access and Understanding
Highly practical tips for making sure students read and understand informational texts … Powerful ideas for incorporating nonfiction
Boost Your Students’ Sense of Responsibility for Their Own Learning
Lead your students toward assuming more responsibility for their own literacy development as you maximize teaching time to focus on direct, small group reading instruction
Increase Your Teaching Options
Return to your classroom with a wealth of practical ideas, motivating activities and engaging centers that will enable your students to apply best literacy practices independently while you work with small groups

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

How to foster independent learning through establishing effective literacy routines
Practical strategies for preparing students for productive, independent work
Classroom-tested ideas for organizing literacy learning time and classroom environment for maximum student success
Effective techniques for monitoring students’ independent activities
How to organize and manage literacy centers in time-efficient ways
Classroom-proven techniques that will strengthen vocabulary, fluency and comprehension
Step-by-step plans for developing meaningful, independent literacy activities for grades 3-6 classrooms
Vocabulary strategies based on how the human brain receives and retains information
Anchoring strategies to help your students go beyond the surface level of the text
How to use literacy centers to differentiate instruction
How to help your students strengthen vocabulary as well as background knowledge
Valuable reading strategies designed specifically for students in grades 3-6
Maximize your instructional time by making the time away from you as valuable as the time with you

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Growth in reading is essential to students’ ongoing literacy development. Intermediate-grade students at every literacy level need direct, targeted small group reading instruction. But what are the rest of the students doing while the teacher works with instructional reading groups? How can we make readers’ time away from the small group as valuable as the time with the small group? I am excited about this opportunity to share with you strategies and activities that address these important questions.

During our practical, idea-packed day, I will provide you with a variety of ways to engage your students in reading. Throughout the day we will learn how to actively engage students in a wide variety of independent, literacy-building activities. Through the use of video clips, student work and an extensive reading research handbook, we will explore the following topics:

Effective ways to prepare students for productive, independent work
“Reach” activities that deepen students’ thinking about their independent reading sections
Meaningful content area reading strategies
Monitoring techniques to strengthen students’ comprehension, vocabulary and fluency

Please join me for a fast-paced day full of engaging reading activities that you can use immediately in your grades 3-6 classrooms. I look forward to meeting you at the seminar and sharing ideas to strengthen and enhance your students’ reading skills.

Sincerely,
Jaime Bailey

P.S. You will receive an extensive resource handbook filled with practical strategies, tried and tested in real classrooms, with real students.

Who Should Attend

Educators serving Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Gifted Education Teachers, and Administrators.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

Effective ways to prepare students for productive, independent work
“Reach” activities that deepen students’ thinking about their independent reading sections
Meaningful content area reading strategies
Monitoring techniques to strengthen students’ comprehension, vocabulary and fluency

Materials on Display
As a participant at the seminar, you will have the opportunity to view video clips and prepare your own materials for “ready-to-use-tomorrow” lessons. Please bring scissors, stapler and a glue stick to prepare samples.

Consultation Available
Jaime Bailey will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own literacy program.

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