Workshop

Workshop/Conference Sessions

Grade Levels:

Elementary, Middle, High

Weaving Words: Integrate Writing Across the Curriculum

Professional Development for Educators

by award-winning author Nancy Kelly Nancy

Intended audience: Primary, elementary, and secondary teachers.

This workshop is intended for educators who teach writing and are looking for engaging, meaningful, and fun activities for the classroom. Each program includes demonstrations of approaches to teaching writing that are classroom-tested and supported by current theory and research in writing. Activities are hands-on and engage the teachers as learners and make writing an integral part of the learning process across the curriculum. The program is designed to meet the particular needs of the participating teachers.

The author discusses how she generates and develops ideas for the books she writes and teaches methods for students to practice the same techniques. Story elements, such as beginning/middle/end, sensory detail, choosing a title, and “show don’t tell,” are explored. Rewriting is the key to good writing. The importance of revision and editing is emphasized. This workshop can be modified to meet requested needs. Handouts available.

The Reading/Writing Connection

Nancy demonstrates how the use of literature in the classroom provides a powerful tool for students to connect their own writing with what they have read.
Nancy uses literature to:

	Focus on teaching various processes of writing-Structuring a Short Story, Personal Narrative, Memoir, Poem, Book Review, Letters, Nonfiction Articles (using research), and Persuasive and Expository Writing.
	Encourage creativity and imagination in writing through the use of idea development, organization, word choice, sentence structure, and voice
	Demonstrate revising and editing techniques.
	Involve and boost students' natural curiosity about the subject matter.
	Assist students in making connections between the subject matter and their lives.

Workshop participants will:

	Identify ways in which reading and writing are connected.
	Develop lessons that facilitate the connection between reading and writing.
	Develop lessons that facilitate portfolio writing.
	Integrate Language Arts across the curriculum

Nancy ’s goal is to assist teachers to become better writers, in order to understand and appreciate the struggles and accomplishments of their own students and to teach those students to become better writers.

Objective/Description: To improve writing skills and scores of students in grades K-12. Workshop lengths are 3 to 6 hours or multiple-day sessions. To present entertaining methods to help teachers successfully integrate writing into the curriculum for K-12 students.

Sessions vary from 45 minutes to 6 hours.

Qualifications: Award-winning author of thirteen children’s picture books and one chapter book, all with major U.S. publishers. Additional books are in various stages of publication. Presenter has 27 years in the classroom and library working with students and extensive experience working with students in portfolio writing. Master’s degree in Education, Master’s degree in Library and Information Science.

Standards:

2-Curriculum Classroom Evaluation/Assessment

3-Instruction

Audience:

Teachers

Librarians/Media specialists

Professional Development Coordinators

Directors of District-Wide Services

	Each session is tailored to the needs of the participants.
	Workshops may be scheduled after school, during school hours, or in the summer months.
	Follow-up sessions are available.

Contact:

Nancy Kelly Allen

Phone: 606-785-4462

Email: nkallen@nancykellyallen.com or nkallen@tgtel.com

References:

Morehead State University- Kentucky Reading Project-Writing Workshop for teachers.

Contact: Melinda Willis, Phone: 606-783-2844

ARSI-Math Workshop for teachers.

Contact: Vonda Stamm, Phone: 606-768-2336

Western Kentucky University-Kentucky Reading Project-Writing Workshop for teachers.

Contact: Sherry Powers, Phone: 270-745-6474

Mountain Writing Project-Hazard Community College-Writing Workshop for teachers

Contact: Linda Blair, Phone: 1-800-246-7521

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