Saturday, Sept. 27 /Oct. 25 / Nov. 15, 9am –

Learn Today. Implement Tomorrow. –

In only an hour, explore an instructional strategy, anchored in brain research, focusing on a reading or writing play from The English Coach’s Instructional Playbook.

Learning Objectives

• Teachers will experience and practice brain-based strategies that demonstrate how to use the knowledge of grammar to improve student style.
• Teachers will discover how the inductive approach both invites students with limited background in grammar to participate, and gradually allows them to internalize useful grammatical knowledge.
• Teachers will learn how to craft questions that guide students to learn form, function, and punctuation rules of specific grammatical structures. 
• Teachers will experience the versatility of sentence imitation as a tool to link grammar to a larger unit and to engage all students about the process of interpretation.
• Teachers will experience the ecstasy of teaching grammar!