H-13 (K-6 Special Ed., ELL, & Literacy Coaches)
READING INSTRUCTION: TOUCHING THE HEART AND TICKLING THE FUNNY BONE
Mary Lou Harris-Manske, Educational Consultant, Co-owner of The Book Look, Stevens Point
mharrism@wisp.k12.wi.us
Jackie Heinz, Wisconsin Rapids School District
heinzja@wrps.org   
  

Do your students' eyes pass over the page without understanding what they've read?  Are you looking for ways to actively engage your students in reading, writing, thinking, and purposeful talk?   Are you wondering how to enhance the essential components of literacy instruction and make your interactive read alouds, shared, independent, and small group strategy instruction more meaningful?

This literature-rich workshop will model strategies and instructional practices that enrich and support reading, writing, and thinking across the curriculum.  These active literacy strategies differentiate classroom instruction while keeping students highly motivated and actively involved in their learning.

Participants will be introduced to books, strategies, and instructional practices that create a joyful learning environment that teaches, touches the heart, and tickles the funny bone.

Objectives:

	Teach all students to meaningfully engage with texts.
	Change passive learners  to active learners.
	Understand and implement the essential components of literacy instruction (interactive read-aloud, shared, independent, and small group strategy instruction).
	Assess student growth.
	Enlarge student's comprehension "toolkit."
	Implement the model of "gradual release" from teacher-directed to student independence.
	Introduce a wide variety of current and classic literature.
	Instill a love of learning.

Comments from last year included: "Excellent for all teachers, not just Reading teachers."

Overall workshop rating at Washburn 2007 - 3.67 (4 point scale).