Discover Writing Presents
Where
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
4801 Lacrosse avenue
Austin, TX 78739
Driving Directions
Other Locations
Contact
Val Tilford
Discover Writing Company
800-613-8055
registrar@discoverwriting.com
Handouts include;
Barry in a Box DVD, The Giggly Guide to Grammar Teacher edition, Comma Quest, and Learning On Their Feet ($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 writers 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)
"Amazing, we increased STAAR writing scores from 30% to 73% passing in one year using Barry's strategies ."
Melissa Skinner, Principal, Charlotte, Tx
Bring the whole team and the principal comes free!
PLC special : Principals attend FREE when 3 teachers from their school attend. Call 1-800-613 8055 to add them to the list. Call for high volume discounts. 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, 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 make writing in all subjects come alive
- 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 Writing 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.
