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Excel in Literacy is an educational consulting service that conducts staff development workshops for teachers in grades 3-12. The workshops are designed to give teachers across all disciplines the strategies they need to improve content area reading, writing and learning skills, thereby increasing the academic success of their students. Excel in Literacy’s unique educational philosophy, with its focus on actively engaging students of all abilities and learning styles, aims at making your school a better place to learn for all students.
Follow-up consultation and staff development, including classroom demonstration teaching of strategies are available.
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Down with the Podium-Up with Reading and Writing Strategies
Teachers will learn to:
>Empower students to effectively comprehend their content related literary and informational textbook readings through self-monitoring strategies and hands-on engaging activities
>Practice more than 20 research-based instructional strategies to allow students to perform higher levels of reasoning in academic and vocational subjects
>Create materials to facilitate teacher use of classroom strategies
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Teachers will learn to:
>Construct rigorous lesson plans that will prepare students for state-mandated assessment expectations, without having to "teach to the test"
>Prepare students with reading strategies that can reduce their stress and lead to higher scores on "high stakes" state exams
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Teachers will learn to:
>Develop a repertoire of instructional practices that leads to improved student comprehension, fluency, enjoyment, and lively discussion of literary, informational and trade books
>Explore opportunities that support greater academic risks and encourage open, natural conversations as students acquire powerful mental tools for interacting with text
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