TRAINING AT YOUR CAMPUS
We will inservice all of the teachers at your Campus so that vertical alignment can prevail. Every teacher plays a role, and together everyone creates a performance of a lifetime for each child. All students will benefit from the small chunking at each grade level, and will harbor a feeling of love for learning. Let us give each grade level team the WHY, the WHAT, and the HOW of effective vertical alignment for Reading and Writing.
Content 2 Computer
12 CPE Credit Hours
PK-8
The Content 2 Computer seminar will provide teachers with activities that teach students how to effectively utilize scratch paper and the online tools on the day of the assessment through continued use of the hands-on strategies throughout the school year.
Content meets Computer, and they fall in love! Language Arts has a new life and excitement as we forge into the era of online assessment. Teach BIG provides real-time applications so that students and teachers have confidence as they tackle STAAR 2.0. Learn how to use online assessment tools such as selecting and highlighting text evidence, striking-through distractor answers choices, and using the built-in notepad for annotating. We will take all of the available tools on the online STAAR 2.0 assessment and learn how to utilize them to the fullest by first experiencing them visually and kinesthetically through using hands-on manipulatives easily found in the everyday classroom!
Full Circle Language Arts
Short Constructed Response
6 CPE Credit Hours
PK-8
The FCLA-SCR seminar will provide teachers with activities that teach students how to effectively transfer information learned from engaging games and activities to writing a SCR on the computer on the day of the assessment through continued use of hands-on strategies throughout the school year.
The FCLA-SCR training will ensure familiarity and confidence with the requirements and latest expectations of STAAR 2.0. This includes, but is not limited to, constructing thesis statements/claims, extracting supporting textual evidence, and developing accurate inferences.
Extended Constructed Response- Informative
6 CPE Credit Hours
PK-8
The FCLA-ECR (Informative) training focuses on teaching the child as well as having a vertically aligned, growth mindset vision. The vision begins with the use of sources which align to the science and social studies TEKS. It continues to grow the child through the use of ESSA’s four modes of learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All reading pieces, as well as questions and answer choices, provide a variety of options addressing all levels of DoK (Depth of Knowledge). To round out the accomplishments of FCLA, students will continually spiral back to reading comprehension and the 4 Dimensions of Informative prompts. The Full Circle approach comes alive every day and in every classroom as skills are taught together as opposed to isolating the concepts. Be ready to be stress-free as everything you need to thrive is at your fingertips with FULL CIRCLE LANGUAGE ARTS- EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE presented by Teach BIG!
Extended Constructed Response- Argumentative
6 CPE Credit Hours
PK-8
The FCLA-ECR (Argumentative) training focuses on teaching the child as well as having a vertically aligned, growth mindset vision. The vision begins with the use of sources which align to the science and social studies TEKS. It continues to grow the child through the use of ESSA’s four modes of learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All reading pieces, as well as questions and answer choices, provide a variety of options addressing all levels of DoK (Depth of Knowledge). To round out the accomplishments of FCLA, students will continually spiral back to reading comprehension and the 4 Dimensions of Argumentative prompts. The Full Circle approach comes alive every day and in every classroom as skills are taught together as opposed to isolating the concepts. Be ready to be stress-free as everything you need to thrive is at your fingertips with FULL CIRCLE LANGUAGE ARTS- EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE presented by Teach BIG!
The 4 Dimensions of Reading
The 4 Dimensions of Reading
6 CPE Credit Hours
PK-8
To truly understand what is read, let’s begin with the end in mind. Let’s take an in-depth look at the 4 types of reading comprehension questions. Upon dissecting them, the 4 Dimensions of Reading Comprehension emerge. Think of the 4 Dimensions as Bloom’s Taxonomy meets DoK (Depths of Knowledge). Understanding these dimensions helps students look for textual evidence (Tapping) and opportunities to inference (Thinking). All of this together leads to reading comprehension that is designed to be fun and long-lasting. Sprinkle in a wide variety of activities, games, and chants, and a recipe for success has been made for students of all learning styles.
Editing & Revising
An In-Depth Look at How Reading Pieces are Upgraded through Editing and Revising Techniques
The difference between the types of sentences is the most important piece of the editing part of the circle. Understanding simple, compound, and complex sentence structures can be the difference between successful written communication and communication that confuses the reader. Learning parts of speech, grammar rules, and sentence structure is now among students’ favorite parts of their day! Believe me when I say that all of this can be accomplished through kinesthetic activities, chants to help retain information, and symbols that store the information in the brain for a lifetime! Rearrange? Exchange? Add? Delete? Decipher that, and the Revising journey will be successful. Once students know the difference between the types of revising questions, they can conquer the strategies needed to answer the questions. Buckle your seat belts for one of the most eye-opening pieces of the Language Arts circle! This seminar teaches the types of revising questions and the types of answer choices that accompany them. All of this is accomplished by learning how to use the provided writing pieces as a springboard.
Editing (Grade Levels: PK-2, 3-8, 9-12)
6 CPE Credit Hours
Tackle the objective section of assessments head-on! You will experience sentence structure and grammar rules being brought to life. Students will know what it means to SEE a sentence, and BE a sentence. Participants will explore tactile-kinesthetic games that help students learn and internalize the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences. These learning games will be followed by how to apply this to the assessment tests and samples of how it will look on the tests. This seminar will address: nouns, pronouns, verbs (helping and linking), verb tense (simple, perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive), adjectives, prepositions, prepositional phrases, adverbs, punctuation, capitalization, and the all important comma! Classrooms will never be the same after this in-service!
Editing is a 1 day inservice for 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Editing and revising is a combined 1-day inservice for pk-2
Revising (Grade Levels: Pk-2. 3-8, 9-12)
6 CPE Credit Hours
READ & ROCK your way through Revising. Learn how to differentiate between the different types of Revising questions (Rearrange, Exchange, Add, and Delete). Follow that with successful strategies to tackle a variety of answer choices such as R.O.C.K. (Repeats, Offs, Connections, and Knowledge). Add all of this greatness to a true understanding of sequence and you’ll have the most fun you’ve ever had teaching Revising!
