Participants will engage in an opener activity. Openers help create an environment that’s conducive to learning. This is the first opportunity to connect with your audience and help them feel comfortable and connect with one another. It's purposeful, is active, and is directly related to or leads to the content being focused on in the training.
Participants will be shown multiple types of literary structures that they see in their everyday lives on social media and how content creators utilize these literary structures to make their own content which is relevant to their audience. How might they make their own? How might they utilize this theory and structure with students during a literacy block in their classroom? Participants will be encouraged to create their own that they can take away from the session and use as an example for their students.
Participants will be exposed to ways in which students can take drafts of their literary structures and publish them utilizing a variety of tech tools that help to unleash their creativity and encourage them to share their writing with an authentic and relevant audience.
Participants will engage in a closer activity. The closer brings this session full circle and ends with a purpose by including positivity, identifying takeaways, celebrating the time invested and the hard work, and reflecting and committing to action. We want to ensure that participants leave with a clear understanding of what they have learned, as well as a sense of motivation to apply that learning in their work. The close will be a purposeful reflection because without it there is no assurance that anything will transfer to classroom practice.
After this session, participants will be able to understand what a literary structure is and how students “plug and play” their own language and vocabulary to make it their own. Participants will learn how to utilize multiple platforms on how to take students from a drafted version of these structures to a published version to share with an authentic and relevant audience.
Practices and approaches learned in this session are based on Sylvia Ashton-Warner’s Language Experience Approach: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZLizBmlI-ZpH8w9c-eEMjMRJs5_5-_-v/view?usp=sharing
The Talk to Read© program is based on Dr. Betsy Baker’s field research:
https://www.moare.com/vnews/display.v/ART/611674b48613e
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rrq.170
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/k12_education/talk-to-read-is-meant-to-help-students-turn-words-they-speak-into-words-they/article_5badf2a6-997b-11ec-b3da-1f5cd0472c37.html
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