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Parents of Students in Grades K-12
Coaching Writers: How to Support Your Child's Writing Development without Doing the Assignment Yourself
Audience:Parents of Students in Grades K-12
We will discuss how parents can be most effective during the revision and editing process and practice strategies that don't include rewriting the assignment themselves. Parents will learn how to use graphic organizers and other strategies to support and motivate struggling writers. The workshop will conclude with ideas and resources for inviting writing outside of school, finding authentic audiences for children's writing, and improving grammar and vocabulary.
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Parents of Students in Grades K-12
Encouraging Readers: Creating a Culture of Literacy at Home
Audience:Parents of Students in Grades K-12
This class will equip parents with an extensive toolkit to draw from to support their children's development as readers at home. Topics that will be covered include reading levels and selecting a "just right" book, encouraging reluctant readers, developing reading habits, strategies to use when helping struggling readers, carving out time for reading, how to talk to a child about a book you haven't read, and making reading a family tradition.
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Parents of Students in Grades 3-8
Helping Your Child with their Reading Assignments
Audience:Parents of Students in Grades 3-8
This class will guide parents to support their children's reading activities. Here you will learn easy tips and tricks to making your student successful during online learning.
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Parents of Students in Grades 3-8
Helping Your Child with their Writing Assignments
Audience:Parents of Students in Grades 3-8
This class speaks with parents about ways to help their young writers. We will discuss different writing styles and how to help your student include important writing strategies.
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Parents of Students in Grades 6-12
Motivating the Reluctant Teen Reader
Audience:Parents of Students in Grades 6-12
Is your tween or teen a reluctant reader? This workshop will explore the reasons behind the decline in reading for pleasure that typically happens as children enter middle school and why parents and teachers must work to counteract this trend. Parents will consider what kind of reader their tween or teen is, learn ideas for encouraging reading for pleasure at home, and gain new tools for matching teens with books they actually want to read.