Discover Writing Presents
Contact
Carol-lee Lane
Discover Writing Company
800-613-8055
accounting@discoverwriting.com
Handouts include;
Barry in a Box DVD: The Giggly Guide to Grammar Teacher edition and Learning On Their Feet, and Comma Quest. ($124 dollar Value, Free with your registration plus much more online)
In our 2 days together, I will teach you how to create a class of real academic riters who love to write. You will bring home engaging craft lessons that bring excitement and spark to your reading/writing classroom at your grade level, achieve off the charts success on the STAAR test, and infuse your literacy teaching with passion, joy and confidence.
I look forward to working with you.
Barry Lane
Igniting a Passion for Non-fiction Writing:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats
A dynamic 2 day
Writing Workshop
with author and outstanding presenter Barry Lane
Bring Engagement and Vigor to Academic Writing Instruction and send STAAR Scores Through the Roof!
For teachers 3-12 and anyone who teaches writing
Best practice is not test practice!-- Barry Lane
"Amazing, we increased STAAR writing scores from 30% to 73% passing in one year using Barry's strategies ."
Melissa Skinner, Principal, Keller Tx
Fee: $399 per person
Bring the whole team!
PLC special : Principals attend FREE when 3 teachers from their school attend. Call 1-800-613 8055 to add them to the list.
Fax purchase orders to 1-802 897-2084
I have never been more inspired as a teacher as well as a writer. This is truly one of the greatest conferences I have ever attended. Phenomenal!
Katie Radcliffe 4th Grade teacher
In this 2 day writing workshop, you will learn how to
- Teach kid tested, classroom proven strategies which raise lifelong writers along with test scores
- Understand simple craft techniques to improve non-fiction writing in all its different STAAR modes, including persuasive, expository, literary analysis, narrative.
- Learn to mine themes and insight from literature and life.
- Teach essay structure without mindless formulas which flatten out writing.
- Bridge effortlessly from narrative structures to expository writing and show the difference to students
- Design a question culture which brings writing to life.
- Boost your own confidence as a writer and pass on this new knowledge to all students.
- Uncover power ways to use poetry to unlock student expression in all forms of writing for ELL students
- Discover effective ways to foster peer conferences and student interaction to improve writing
- Take home original songs, poems and lessons that build fluency and bind social emotional learning with academic inquiry
- Discover surefire ways to create a class that groans if you say there is no time to write today.
- Build of community of effective and engaged writers who dance with the STAAR
- Use kinesthic strategies to teach writing in all subjects
- Teach sticky ways to teach grammar
"I cannot say enough about this conference. It was hands-on and very interactive. Not only did I learn things about teaching my students, I also learned about myself as a writer and I want to start writing my own stories. Hands down, best conference I have attended--worth every penny! " Holly Pace, grade 8
Teachers of all grade levels rave about Barry's STAAR Workshops
If this workshop doesn't ignite your passion for teaching writing you might want to make sure you have a fuse!
Laurie McDaniel, 9th, Lampasas, TX
Barry can also come to your school to work with students and teachers. Click here for information.
There is no better resource for authentic teaching strategies than Barry Lane.
Dianne Phillips, 4th, Dumas, TX