Archived 2010 SJAWP
Programs
at
San José State University
Teachers Helping Teachers
Courses are Standards-aligned, approved for HOUSSE points for Highly Qualified Teachers under NCLB, and for AB466 PASSPORT hours.
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Spring 2010 |
Super Saturday Spring Program |
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March 6, 2010
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Getting Started with Mentor Texts—Let's Have Fun with our Favorite Authors!For K–3 Grade Teachers How can you help students become confident writers using varied types of literature as their starting point? How do you teach children to discover the ways that authors make writing come alive and how to use that understanding to encourage and improve their own writing? How do you teach children to create the emotions they feel when they read their favorite books? In this session, Cindy Cohen, Kindergarten teacher, and Kim Cosmas, 2nd grade teacher, will show how such texts as Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day and The Pet Show, Donald Crews' Shortcut, and Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day can be used across grade levels. Both teachers will provide student samples to show how the same mentor texts can be used in K–3 grade levels to help students become strong, accomplished writers.
Cindy Cohen
Kim Cosmas
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Writing Like a Reader Who Loves to Write:
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Mentors, Models and Mirrors: Using Mentor Texts to Inspire and Empower Student WritersFor 9–12 Grade Teachers Noted journalist and author Sydney J. Harris once wrote, "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." This statement speaks eloquently of the power of education to allow students to see a world beyond them. It also reminds us that through their attempts to "mirror" strong mentor texts, student writers can access those windows onto a world that reveals the power of their own voices and talents. Especially in an era of mechanical assessment, students need powerful and lyrical writing demystified for them. Marie Milner will show how she uses close reading of mentor passages to inspire student writing and voice in her high school classroom.
Marie Milner
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Closing Presentation
Andrea Butler
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April 17, 2010
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Libros por Los Niños: Getting the Youngest ELLs Excited about ReadingFor K–3 Grade Teachers Using picture books such as Gary Soto's The Old Man and His Door, Aliki's The Two of Them, and Vera B. Williams' A Chair for My Mother, Mariana Figueroa will demonstrate how she sparks a love of reading with her English language learners. The books that Mariana will highlight represent a range of genres. Participants will be able via DVD to watch Mariana's students in action as they embark on the journey of reading and writing.
Mariana Figueroa
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Beyond State Adopted Texts:
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Choosing Their Own Stories:
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Closing Presentation
Valerie Lewis
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May 8, 2010
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You've Got the Write Stuff, Baby!For K–3 Grade Teachers Wondering how to create a fun and effective writing community in your classroom? Hang tough! Alexis Doucette will take you step by step, with ideas on how to get your kids motivated and focused through creative mini-lessons, the use of author's chair, and giving their writing purpose by providing an authentic audience. Without a doubt, by the end of the year, they'll love writing.
Alexis Doucette
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The Writer's Journey: Don't Stop BelievingFor 4–8 Grade Teachers
See your students in a print-rich room
Do your students know where their writing journey has taken them this year? In this workshop, Breanne Romano and Kari Nygaard will share strategies to
Kari Nygaard
Breanne Romano
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Oh, the Places You've Gone:
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Closing Presentation
Cosponsored by
Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Pam Muñoz Ryan Talks to Teens about Writing
Cosponsored by
For 5th–12th Grade Students
Pam Muñoz Ryan, whose many books for young adults and children include
Esperanza Rising
and
Becoming Naomi Leon, has a new YA novel,
The Dreamer, to be released in Spring 2010, In the book, "Neftali finds beauty and wonder everywhere: in the oily colors of mud puddles; a lost glove, sailing on the wind; the music of birds and language. He loves to collect treasures, daydream, and write—pastimes his authoritarian father thinks are for fools. Against all odds, Neftali prevails against his father's cruelty and his own crippling shyness to become one of the most widely read poets in the world, Pablo Neruda. This moving story about the birth of an artist is also a celebration of childhood, imagination, and the strength of the creative spirit."
In this workshop, Ms. Muñoz Ryan will talk about her writings and guide students through some writing of their own. Her newest book, The Dreamer, captures what she can teach teens about writing and creativity.
Pam Muñoz Ryan
9:30 AM
Location: TBA
Registration Fee:
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June 22, 2010
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Summer 2010 |
San Jose Area Writing Project
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June 21, 2010
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June 21, 2010
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Tools That Never Rust:
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June 28, 2010
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Tools That Build a Solid Foundation
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June 28, 2010
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Beyond the Five Paragraph EssayEDTE 150 Section 3For 8–12 Grade Teachers In this intensive week–long program, we will investigate ways to analyze and imitate models of nonfiction writing. Participants will study a variety of analytic approaches to a text—mythological, sociological, psychological, deconstructive, as well as textual—and learn how to generate effective structure, voice, and writing strategies. Emphasizing alternative approaches to style and grammar, we will explore ways to expand the nonfiction writing curriculum by including memoir, reflective essays, persuasive writing, poetry, setting and character pieces, interview and profile, and academic writing utilizing varied research methods. Participants will receive dozens of student models demonstrating successful ways to teach writing.
Jeff House
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July 12, 2010
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Get the "Awk" Outta' Here!:
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July 26, 2010
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Writers' Workshop and Your Classroom:
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August 2, 2010
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Igniting Students' Interest in Reading
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The San Jose Area Writing Project
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South Bay's Young Writers' Camp A week when young writers in grades 3–7 are able to develop personal creativity and practice key writing strategies in a fun summer camp atmosphere! |
July 26–30 |
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Young Authors' Institute @ SJSU A weeklong intensive program for enthusiastic writers in grades 5–8 who would like to focus on specific skills and genres in a writing studio environment! |
August 2–6 |
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Does your child love to read?
- Does he show an uncanny ability to notice things?
- Does (s)he tell you (s)he loves to write and wants to be an author someday?
- Could your child use a jump–start in his confidence in writing?
Then your child will love the writing experience at Young Writing Programs!
September 11, 2010
Theme:
Establishing Reading–Writing Routines:
Fostering Resiliency
San José State University,
7th and San Carlos Streets
Check In & Registration:
8:30 AM–9:00 AM
Sweeney Hall
Room 229
Super Saturday Workshops:
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Closing Presentation:
11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Buffet Lunch (Included in Registration Fee):
12:45 PM–1:30 PM
(Ongoing, informal discussion with colleagues, workshop presenters & writing project facilitators.)
San José State University
You
must RSVP for lunch
by Wednesday, September 8, 2010:
e-mail
Mary Warner, or call her at 408-924-4417,
or
e-mail
Trang Phan, or call her at (408)-924-4412.
Free parking
on 4th Street, just north of San Carlos Avenue
(San Jose City parking—free on weekends)
Parking at the 7th Street (& San Salvador) Garage (located right beside
Sweeney Hall):
Bring $5.00 cash or credit card for the ticket machine.
The Three Cs of an Effective Environment:
Classroom Management, Community, and Consistency
For K–3 Grade Teachers
Do you want your students to be independent and enjoy reading and writing authentically? It is all about classroom management, community, and consistency. Creating a learner–centered classroom, establishing procedures, and exercising consistency are the recipe for a successful school year. You will walk away with reading–writing center ideas and activities that your students will be able to do independently, so that you can have time to work with small groups and individual students. These activities require little or no prep because the students will do all the work!
Maria Smith
Literacy Coach
Berryessa Union School District
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
How Do You Teach a Book:
Promoting Reading that Engages Writing
For 4–7 Grade Teachers
As the school year begins, Jay Richards asks you to consider the essential, but surprisingly often unexamined question: How do you teach a book—especially in ways that can engage your students? For Jay, the answer revolves around five guiding ideas that can be adapted to any novel or short story:
- It's Not About the First Read
- Focus on Secondary Characters
- Observe and Infer
- Answer Characters' Questions
- Everything Matters
Jay will take you through these strategies with clear examples to help get your students to go back to the text for better understanding and enjoyment. He'll also talk about how you can students create more meaningful responses to reading. Leave with a better understanding of your own teaching as well as ideas about teaching reading and writing to use Monday morning.
Jay Richards
Central Middle School
San Carlos Elementary School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Make a Habit Out of This:
Reading and Writing Routines
For 8–12 Grade Teachers
Working routines of reading and writing into lessons regularly not only encourages student achievement, but also makes planning and classroom management easier. These habits can form the core of a lesson, unit, or class. Get ideas about various routines you can add to your bag of tricks, from beginning–of–class ideas to long–term semester plans.
Debbie Navratil
Silver Creek High School
East Side Union High School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Todd Seal
Silver Creek High School
East Side Union High School District
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
Closing Presentation
Margaret Tomita
Middle Grades Specialist
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
Fall 2010
Super Saturday Program
Theme:
Reading to Write
September 11, 2010
Theme:
Establishing Reading–Writing Routines:
Fostering Resiliency
San José State University,
7th and San Carlos Streets
Check In & Registration:
8:30 AM–9:00 AM
Sweeney Hall
Room 229
Super Saturday Workshops:
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Closing Presentation:
11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Buffet Lunch (Included in Registration Fee):
12:45 PM–1:30 PM
(Ongoing, informal discussion with colleagues, workshop presenters & writing project facilitators.)
San José State University
You
must RSVP for lunch
by Wednesday, September 8, 2010:
e-mail
Mary Warner, or call her at 408-924-4417,
or
e-mail
Trang Phan, or call her at (408)-924-4412.
Free parking
on 4th Street, just north of San Carlos Avenue
(San Jose City parking—free on weekends)
Parking at the 7th Street (& San Salvador) Garage (located right beside
Sweeney Hall):
Bring $5.00 cash or credit card for the ticket machine.
The Three Cs of an Effective Environment:
Classroom Management, Community, and Consistency
For K–3 Grade Teachers
Do you want your students to be independent and enjoy reading and writing authentically? It is all about classroom management, community, and consistency. Creating a learner–centered classroom, establishing procedures, and exercising consistency are the recipe for a successful school year. You will walk away with reading–writing center ideas and activities that your students will be able to do independently, so that you can have time to work with small groups and individual students. These activities require little or no prep because the students will do all the work!
Maria Smith
Literacy Coach
Berryessa Union School District
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
How Do You Teach a Book:
Promoting Reading that Engages Writing
For 4–7 Grade Teachers
As the school year begins, Jay Richards asks you to consider the essential, but surprisingly often unexamined question: How do you teach a book—especially in ways that can engage your students? For Jay, the answer revolves around five guiding ideas that can be adapted to any novel or short story:
- It's Not About the First Read
- Focus on Secondary Characters
- Observe and Infer
- Answer Characters' Questions
- Everything Matters
Jay will take you through these strategies with clear examples to help get your students to go back to the text for better understanding and enjoyment. He'll also talk about how you can students create more meaningful responses to reading. Leave with a better understanding of your own teaching as well as ideas about teaching reading and writing to use Monday morning.
Jay Richards
Central Middle School
San Carlos Elementary School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Make a Habit Out of This:
Reading and Writing Routines
For 8–12 Grade Teachers
Working routines of reading and writing into lessons regularly not only encourages student achievement, but also makes planning and classroom management easier. These habits can form the core of a lesson, unit, or class. Get ideas about various routines you can add to your bag of tricks, from beginning–of–class ideas to long–term semester plans.
Debbie Navratil
Silver Creek High School
East Side Union High School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Todd Seal
Silver Creek High School
East Side Union High School District
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
Closing Presentation
Margaret Tomita
Middle Grades Specialist
Associate Director
San Jose Area Writing Project
October 16, 2010
Theme:
Academic Language: Vocabulary & Text Structure
San José State University,
7th and San Carlos Streets
Check In & Registration:
8:30 AM–9:00 AM
Sweeney Hall
Room 229
Super Saturday Workshops:
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Closing Presentation:
11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Buffet Lunch (Included in Registration Fee):
12:45 PM–1:30 PM
(Ongoing, informal discussion with colleagues, workshop presenters & writing project facilitators.)
San José State University
You
must RSVP for lunch
by Wednesday, October 13, 2010:
e-mail
Mary Warner, or call her at 408-924-4417,
or
e-mail
Trang Phan, or call her at (408)-924-4412.
Free parking
on 4th Street, just north of San Carlos Avenue
(San Jose City parking—free on weekends)
Parking at the 7th Street (& San Salvador) Garage (located right beside
Sweeney Hall):
Bring $5.00 cash or credit card for the ticket machine.
Beyond Beginning, Middle, End
For K–3 Grade Teachers
Before you can "break out of the mold," you need to know what the mold is! As you introduce your students to new genres, you will need to understand the essential vocabulary that defines and shapes each one, as well as their fundamental text structures.
In this workshop, I will guide you through fun and effective mini lessons on five basic text structures: Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Sequence, Description and Problem/Solution. You, in turn, will walk away with the tools, references and the know-how to grow and inspire your blossoming writers.
Alexis Doucette
Cumberland Elementary School
Sunnyvale School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Don't Gloss over Those Academic Words!:
Teaching Academic Language, Vocabulary, and Text Structure
For 4–7 Grade Teachers
Ute will offer participants methods to help their students with vocabulary language, the structure of text, and the characteristics of different writing genres. Using GLAD and other strategies, Ute will share engaging ways to expose students to vocabulary in multiple ways including graphic organizers, pictures, and outlines. Participants will plan for teaching vocabulary in a structured and scaffolded way so students can apply what they learn in their writing and test–taking.
Ute Gillett
Campbell Middle School
Campbell Union School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Wide Angle and Close Up:
Helping Writers Analyze Text Structure
For 8–12 Grade Teachers
From middle school to college, students are expected to write a variety of texts including reflective, expository, analytic, and persuasive essays. One strategy that can help student writers to craft effective academic essays is the analysis of other authors' texts. In this workshop, you will try out two techniques for analyzing the structure of academic texts. Wide-angle: analyze an author's rhetorical strategies in laying down a train of thought in an essay. Close-up: how a writer's purpose affects grammatical and lexical choices at the paragraph level. Both techniques can be applied to a wide range of non-fiction texts. Student writers learn how to take an active role in their reading and writing of academic texts.
Sarah Nielsen
Comp/TESOL
California State University, East Bay
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Closing Presentation
Rosemary Kuhn
Piedmont Hills High School
East Side Union High School District
November 13, 2010
Theme:
Writing about What You Read:
Pulling Evidence from the Text
San José State University,
7th and San Carlos Streets
Check In & Registration:
8:30 AM–9:00 AM
Sweeney Hall
Room 229
Super Saturday Workshops:
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Closing Presentation:
11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Buffet Lunch (Included in Registration Fee):
12:45 PM–1:30 PM
(Ongoing, informal discussion with colleagues, workshop presenters & writing project facilitators.)
San José State University
You
must RSVP for lunch
by Wednesday, November 10, 2010:
e-mail
Mary Warner, or call her at 408-924-4417,
or
e-mail
Trang Phan, or call her at (408)-924-4412.
Free parking
on 4th Street, just north of San Carlos Avenue
(San Jose City parking—free on weekends)
Parking at the 7th Street (& San Salvador) Garage (located right beside
Sweeney Hall):
Bring $5.00 cash or credit card for the ticket machine.
Getting Young Readers Writing: Ideas for Using Nonfiction Texts in the K–3 Classroom
For K–3 Grade Teachers
String rays? Chrysalis? Local History? Are you interested in using nonfiction texts to inspire your students? Even beginning readers can be motivated to write by reading the right book. This workshop will offer strategies for integrating the texts you use for science and social studies into your writing time. Different activities will be presented for grade level standards K–3. You will leave the workshop with a selection of new ideas for your classroom.
Leah Heinrich
Discovery Charter School, San Jose
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Reading and Writing Non-Fiction:
Helping Students Understand and Use Content Vocabulary
For 4–7 Grade Teachers
Do you want to guide your intermediate grade level students to understanding more of the vocabulary they are exposed to in the content areas? We will look at how to choose key vocabulary, activities to reinforce meaning and authentic use of vocabulary in students' own writing to help bridge the gap between what students understand as they read and can communicate in writing.
Sarah Brennan
Discovery Charter School, San Jose
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Hide and Seek:
Pulling Textual Evidence
For 8–12 Grade Teachers
Help your students find the information they need to back up any argument using the concepts of debate. These skills will be transferred from the personal to simple argument over current issues, and then to academic research and beyond! Show your students the hidden gems in both fiction and nonfiction texts with take–away concepts you can use in your room tomorrow!
Mara Milazzo
Abraham Lincoln High School
San Jose Unified School District
Teacher Consultant
San Jose Area Writing Project
Closing Presentation
Nancy Avoy
Former chair of English
Los Gatos High School
Los Gatos Union School District
The San Jose Area Writing Project
presents
A New Program for Young Writers!
Young Writers' Super Saturdays
A new series of low–cost writing workshops
held on the
SJSU
campus for 5th–10th
grade students.
Develop your writing skills, try new strategies and
deepen your understanding of what makes quality writing.
WHO:
Young Writers currently in grades 5–10
WHAT:
Three Saturday workshops for young writers
WHERE:
Sweeney Hall, San José State University
7th and San Carlos Streets
WHEN:
9:30 AM–11:30 AM
COST:
November 13, 2010: $5.00
March 12, 2011: $5.00
May 14, 2011: $10.00
PAYMENT ON SITE (no credit cards accepted)
Register online by
clicking on the
Register Online
button in each event box
or call (408)-924-4412.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Registration Fee:
$5.00
"Writing About What You Read and What You Know"
Learn strategies for identifying great ideas from favorite writings and making them their own. Ideas can also spark from personal expertise and inspire new compositions in different areas of writing. The workshop will provide young writers strategies for finding a place to start and to reach their writing goals.