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Come to the Seattle area NMSA Conference

Literacy and Learning: Strategies That Work
March 8, 2008

at Todd Beamer High School
35999 16th Avenue South
Federal Way, WA 98003

A full day of workshops for middle grades teachers and school administrators.

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Register 5, pay for only 4!

Janet Allen	Bill McBride

Topics Include

• Tools for Content Literacy, Part 1
• Tools for Content Literacy, Part 2
• Inside Words
• Girls will be Girls, Boys will be Boys: Teaching to Gender Differences
• Pupils as Passionate Learners: Helping Students Read and Retain Information
• Turning Word Losers into Word Lovers

A National Middle School Association (NMSA) workshop in collaboration with Washington Association for Middle Level Education (WAMLE).

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Sessions

Presented by Janet Allen
Tools for Teaching Content Literacy , Part 1 and 2
Are your students struggling with comprehension and writing in their content classes? This interactive workshop will highlight effective instructional strategies for building background knowledge, supporting comprehension, and providing opportunities for multiple ways to demonstrate content learning. Each instructional strategy will be demonstrated showing cross-content applications and texts.

Inside Words: Tools for Developing Academic Vocabulary
This interactive workshop is designed to support teachers in developing effective instructional strategies to support students in learning academic vocabulary for content classes. Instructional strategies will be shared highlight the four critical aspects of a comprehensive vocabulary program: developing word consciousness, teaching individual words, developing strategies for learning new words independently, and increasing volume and diversity of independent reading.

Presented by William McBride
Girls will be Girls, Boys will be Boys: Teaching to Gender Differences
Based on Michael Gurian's fascinating work, this workshop presents the differences in male and female brains that effect behavior and learning. Teachers will come to understand that most school practices match how girls learn rather than boys. Practical, hands-on strategies will be presented that promote reading instruction specifically for males, for females, and for both sexes.

Pupils as Passionate Learners: Helping Students Read and Retain Information
Teachers today often lament that it is especially difficult to get and hold their students’ attention. This interactive workshop shows educators how the brain learns, how to engage a student’s attention, and how to help students store information in long-term memory. By adding a few key “mind traps” to activities, teachers can increase student engagement and application of key ideas. Come prepared to be inspired and have fun.

Turning Word Losers into Word Lovers
Many students today are overwhelmed by the amount of new vocabulary presented in their content area textbooks. How do teachers decide which words to teach their students? Learning words requires repetition, integration, and meaningful activities that promote an enjoyment of word usage and word play. This workshop presents hands-on, practical strategies that show teachers how to select key words as well as the most successful research-based strategies for teaching them.

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Download Registration Form

Registration includes all conference materials, continental breakfast and lunch!
One form per registrant. Form may be duplicated.
Registrations must be received by February 22, 2008. Please fax the completed form to 614-895-4750, or mail the form to
National Middle School Association
4151 Executive Pkwy, Suite 300
Westerville, OH 43081

Complete payment must be received with registration form.

Individual registration cancellations must be submitted in writing by February 22, 2008. A $25 processing fee will be assessed. Cancellations for those registering with a team are non-refundable. We suggest a substitution. Substitutions must be received by February 29th or the substitution can be done on-site.

Clock hours available

Special: Register 5 and pay for only 4!
Registration includes all conference materials, continental breakfast and lunch!

Special Team Registration
(This option is not available on-site)

How to register for team rates:

1. Complete 5 separate registration forms.
2. The registration forms must be mailed in the same envelope or faxed together, including full payment with the 5 registration forms.

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