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Workshops and Inservices for Teachers and Parents

In addition to programs taking place at Rice University, our staff is available to bring a variety of topics to your campus.  These engaging, on-site professional development sessions currently include:
  • Building Blocks of Reading:  Early Literacy Ideas that Work – three hours
  • Story Dictation and Dramatization:  Bringing Words to Life – three hours
  • We Are All Reading Teachers: Infant and Toddler Literacy– three hours
  • What Teachers Say IS Important:  Conversation and Vocabulary Development in the Early Childhood Classroom – three hours
  • Little People, Big Writing:  Scaffolding Writing with the Youngest Children – three hours
  • "They have so much to say": Stories in the Classrooms of Diverse Learners – three hours
  • "I want the book with the boy who looks like me": Using Multicultural Literature in Preschool and Primary Classrooms – one to two hours
  • Playing with Poetry:  Literacy Learning for Young Children – three hours
  • Balanced Curriculum Planning:  Making the Most of Literacy Centers – three or six hours
  •  Nurturing Readers at Home:  A Conversation with Parents – one hour

 Fees:  $1200 for six hours (full day), $750 for three hours (half day) and $250 for one hour.

Our staff also enjoys working with administrators to develop customized early literacy workshops.  This service incurs an additional fee due to the creation of new materials.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
An Evening for Parents of Young Children
featuring
Dr. Patsy Cooper

"Non-Academic Habits That Determine Children’s Academic Futures: Surprising Differences Only Parents Can Make"
Click here for more information (PDF).

For further information contact us at 713.348.5333 or slc@rice.edu.

 
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