Participants will explore research and will learn how to move away from weekly spelling tests toward integrating spelling into a balanced Language Arts curriculum. Participants will evaluate students' spelling, participate in a spelling bee, and work cooperatively to begin implementing strategies for their own classroom practices. Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting. The purpose of the workshop is to help teachers learn how to get students writing descriptively through an experience with literature. Also, literary terms can be learned and discussed.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting.