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Shorter Workshops (60 – 180 minutes)
 These workshops are more focused in topic and grade range. They may be adapted for time frames between one and three hours. Lori is willing to customize her presentations to meet the needs of your school or district. For more workshops click here: Keynote speeches • Full-day workshops
Boogers, Barf and Bloodshed: Engaging our Boys in Reading and Writing (K-8)
National and international tests confirm what teachers have known for a long time: boys are scoring significantly lower than girls in all aspects of literacy. What can we do to engage our boys in reading and writing - without losing our girls? Join this session for some practical ideas for choosing books, organizing instruction and creating learning activities to meet the needs of all our students.
Putting the “Play” Back in Word Play (K-2, 3-6)
Take advantage of terrific tips and techniques for building vocabulary and supporting word study. Poems, picture books, puzzles and reading manipulatives from the dollar store are just a few of the tools Lori will share in this fun-filled, interactive session.
Differentiating Instruction with Guided Reading: Making the Most of the 18 Minute Lesson (K-2, 3-6)
Guided reading is one of the most important tools we have for meeting the needs of students at all stages of development. Find out how guided reading can be used to impact the three key areas of differentiated curriculum: content, process and product. This session will address the Five P’s of Pre-reading, using sticky notes to encourage strategy use during reading, and tools and tricks for getting students to revisit the text after reading.
Guided Reading: What are the other kids doing? (K-3)
How can we engage students in meaningful independent learning activities while we work with a small group. In this session we’ll discuss routines and activities, management and a simple two-day organizational structure.
 Marvelous Mini Lessons for Teaching Beginning Writing (K-3)
The five minute mini lesson is the magic wand for helping students learn what good writers do. In this session, Lori will demonstrate how to use modeled, shared, interactive and guided writing techniques to teach students about both the conventions and the craft of writing.
A Fresh Approach to Six Trait Writing (Grades K-2, 3-8)
Meet the “trait mates” – Donna Details, Willie Word Choice and their pals – and learn how these characters can help your students understand the elements of effective writing. In this session, Lori will guide you as you explore actual student writing and she’ll share literature links, mini lessons and teacher-tested ideas for helping your students improve in each of the traits.
Six Traits – Next Steps (Grades 3-8)
For teachers already familiar with the Six Traits Framework, this workshop looks at integrating the traits into the overall writing program. We’ll discuss organizing the writing workshop and building all six traits into genre-based units.
Is that a Fact? Making the Reading-Writing Connection with Nonfiction Texts (K-2, 3-8)
Reading informational texts requires readers to use all the strategies they need for fiction – and more! Today, there is a wealth of wonderful nonfiction available for even the youngest readers. Join this session for a collection of teaching ideas for before, during and after reading nonfiction texts that you’ll be able to implement in your classroom tomorrow.
Supporting Struggling Readers with RTI (Grades 3-8)
Are there any students in your classroom who can’t cope with grade-level reading materials? Do you have students who avoid reading or cause behavior problems because the work is “too hard”? Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered approach to providing support for struggling readers, from the core classroom instruction to targeted, short-term support to intensive individual programming. In this session, Lori will share tips and techniques to help classroom teachers identify the needs of struggling learners, monitor student progress and provide evidence-based intervention strategies to help students accelerate reading proficiency.
Beyond Running Records: Developing Effective Classroom Reading Assessments, (Grades 3-8)
Evaluating and assessing students’ reading is one of the biggest challenges we teachers face. And yet, good assessment for learning is essential for guiding our teaching to meet the needs of our students. Lori will share insights that she has gained as a developer of large-scale reading assessments, including the three key decisions that should guide all assessment, and ways that we can help all our students score higher on state and national tests.
Reading ON the lines, BETWEEN the lines and BEYOND the lines: Teaching students to draw inferences from text
Inferring involves applying background knowledge to what is read in order to interpret what is not directly stated in the text. Our students infer all the time. They just don’t always know it! Learn how to use literature, pictures, puzzles and cartoons to help students recognize and articulate what they do when they infer – and to add this understanding to their comprehension toolbox.
 Write from the Start (K-1)
Writing Workshop is one of the best tools we have for launching literacy learning – right from Day One! In this session, we’ll look at modeled, shared and interactive writing, bubble-gum spelling and ideas for making the reading-writing connection.
Beyond “Letter of the Week” (K-1)
Learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet is critical to literacy development. This session will be full of practical ideas for using students’ names and environmental print to teach, reinforce and practice letter names and sounds.
Oral Language Development (K-1)
At beginning literacy stages, children can only read and write words they already know. How can we make sure they know lots of words? Read-alouds, shared reading, buzz groups and word splashes are just some of the techniques we can use to help children increase their oral language skills and build important literacy foundations.
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