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Writing and oral language: writing instruction, grammar and syntax, the reading-writing link, and oral language.

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Writing Instruction
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Writing is thinking made visible, and it is taught, not caught.

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Oral Language & Listening
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Reading comprehension is built on oral language, the vocabulary, sentence structures, and listening comprehension a child develops through talk long before they read.

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Grammar & Syntax
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Understanding how sentences work, syntax, helps students both comprehend complex text and write clearly.

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The Reading-Writing Connection
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Reading and writing are deeply connected, each strengthens the other.

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The Writing Process & Revision
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Good writing is rewriting, yet revision is the step students skip and teachers struggle to teach.

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Sentence-Level Writing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Before students can write strong paragraphs and essays, they need to write strong sentences, yet sentence-level instruction is often skipped.

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Argument & Evidence-Based Writing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Making a claim and backing it with evidence and reasoning is one of the most important, and most demanded, forms of writing, yet students often assert without supporting.

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Writing to Learn
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Writing is not only something to be assessed, it is a tool for thinking and learning.

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Informational & Explanatory Writing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Much of the writing students will do in school and life explains and informs, reports, summaries, explanations, how-tos, analyses.

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Striving & Reluctant Writers
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

For some students, writing feels like a wall, too hard, too exposing, or associated with past failure, so they avoid it or shut down.

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Research & Inquiry Writing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Real research is not copying from sources, it is asking a genuine question, finding and evaluating information, synthesizing it, and writing something new from it.

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Narrative Writing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Stories are how humans make sense of experience, and narrative writing, crafting a story with character, setting, tension, and resolution, is both a joy and a serious craft.

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Multimodal Composition
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Communication today combines words with images, audio, video, and design, and composing effectively means more than writing text.

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Writing Conferences
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

A few focused minutes talking one-on-one with a student about their writing can do more than pages of written comments.

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