Helping Students to Get to “Next Level” Reading and Writing

Have your students told you: “I can read, Miss, but I won’t”, “I used to write, but now I don’t.” “I’m too busy to read or write.” 

The focus of this session is to give you, the teacher, effective strategies so you can support the development of students from being reluctant readers and writers to eager, more advanced, and successful readers and writers. This interactive workshop will explore practical approaches to curriculum planning that will help you support all of your students in getting to the “Next Level” in their reading and writing.

Using the JETS (Joy, Empathy, Thinking, Strategies) model of teaching, we will focus on:

• Spiralling and recursive writing tasks which lead to skills-based lessons and improved writing
• Step-by-step development of reading habits
• Methods for layered planning
• Flexible student-centred assessment and evaluation

You will walk away from this session with “fresh” use-it-tomorrow activities and resources that will support and enhance your teaching so that you can help your students take the next step in moving forward with their reading and writing.