Balancing Informational & Literary Texts
(Grades K-5)
This workshop is focused on creating student-centered learning to increase engagement and understanding of text with elementary grade students.
About This Course
This workshop is part of a new series of content collections - Pepper Online Workshops (POW) – focusing on the hottest topics that educators are dealing with across the country. These have been developed in partnership with WestEd using some of the resources from their Doing What Works project. These workshops feature amazing videos, interactive planning tools, and other research-based materials.
Literature Circles are used to engage students in meaningful conversations about a commonly read text. Students are given opportunities to express their opinions, make predictions, and learn from fellow students. In Literature Circles, every student can be given the opportunity to participate and contribute to the conversation.
This workshop is focused on creating student-centered learning to increase engagement and understanding of text with elementary grade students.
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Course Staff
WestEd
WestEd, a nationally recognized nonpartisan, nonprofit
research, development, and service agency working with education and other
communities throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd aims to improve
education and other important outcomes for children, youth and adults. WestEd
provides a wide range of resources for K-12 educators to use in their
classrooms.
Lori Larsen
Lori Larsen has more than 20 years experience in the education environment. Her experience includes classroom teaching, grant implementation, district level administration, and professional development facilitation. Lori has provided professional development for teachers throughout the United States and Canada. She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in K-8 Education from Marshall University and a Master’s of Science degree in Elementary Education from Furman University. She has made presentations at local, state, and national conferences highlighting the use of technology as an instructional tool and integrating technology into the curriculum. Lori has a passion for working with teachers and providing support to help teachers engage students and enhance classroom instruction.
Sarah Feldman, Seewan Eng