Presentations for Elementary Educators

If you are interested in a particular session listed below just click onto the title and write and e-mail to us with your inquiry.

• Write ‘Em Up, Cowboy

  Presents a cowboy theme approach to make peer editing more fun and less threatening for elementary students.

  Michelle Christensen—Westside Intermediate School

• Readin’ and Writin’ in ‘Rithmetic

  Presents activities for incorporating literature and writing into mathematics.

  Martha Hollenbach—Northwestern Elementary School

• Kinderwriting: Transforming Spoken Language into Writing

  Provides strategies for helping kindergarteners make connections between spoken and written language through the Interactive Writing technique.

  Kim Marowski—Buckingham Elementary School

   

• Making Sense out of Sensory Writing

  Provides students with experiences in using their five senses to enhance descriptive writing.

  Jennifer Shupe—Northwestern Elementary School

• Making Class Books

  Gives teachers a strategy that makes writing fun for students by getting them involved in the writing process and by encouraging teamwork and creativity.

   Kasey Smith—Westside Primary

   

• Jump into Journals: A Guide to Journal Writing Activities in the Physical Education Classroom

  Presents a variety of writing activities that can be used in physical education to reinforce writing and language skills at the elementary level.

  Teena Workman—Westside Primary School and Westside Elementary School

• Preposition Poetry and PowerPoint: Motivating Students to Write Poetry by Turning Poems into PowerPoint presentations

  Motivates students to write preposition poems by using PowerPoint to publish the final product.

  Kristin Spangler, Showell Elementary

• The Writing Road to Reading and Speaking a New Language

  Provides a method for new language instructors to promote rapid student success in writing, reading, and speaking.

  Ruth Young, Greensboro Elementary

• Fun with Fables

  Uses story maps of familiar fables to help students develop their own characters and stories.

  Marylou Fineran, Pinehurst Elementary