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| Jeff's latest work is centered on the implementation of the new Common Core. He has a series of one day workshops on teaching the reading and composing of narrative, argument, and informational text structures.
Standard Keynotes and Presentations:
| - Meeting and Exceeding the CCSS for Narrative Text
- Meeting and Exceeding the CCSS for Argumentative Text
- Meeting and Exceeding the CCSS for Informational Text
- Reframing Curriculum through Inquiry
- You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
- Boys and Literacy: Lesson from Reading Don't Fix No Chevys
- Teaching with the End in Mind: Teaching Towards Meaningful Making
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Sample Workshops 50-, 75-, and 90-Minute Workshops
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| Titles | Possible Durations | Activities | | Reading IS Seeing | also half day | guided imagery, picture talks, central focus/main idea sequencing, picture mapping | | Inquiring Minds:Inquiry and Design | also full day/ two days | | | Asking Better Questions | half day/ full day | | | Symbolic Story Representation | also half day | | | Action Strategies | half day/ full day | | | Think-alouds | half day/ full day | | | Usage and Grammar: Inquiry into Language | half day/ full day | grammar and usage
- teaching language use
- teaching proofreading
- teaching revision
| | Video and Hypermedia Design | half day | text and task specific strategies for reading and writing | | Issues of Censorship and the Canon | half day/ full day | | | Into the Flow | half day/ full day | |
| 1 Full Day/ 2 Day Workshops |
| Titles | Reaching Reluctant Readers
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