Description:  This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM® ) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing a variety of types of paragraphs for effective written communication. This strategy is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. The Paragraph Writing Strategy is a strategy for organizing ideas related to a topic, planning the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph, planning the sequence in which ideas will be expressed, and writing a variety of topic, detail, and conclusion sentences.

Important Note: Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy, the precursor to the Paragraph Writing Strategy, in order to provide students with the minimum sentence writing skill prerequisites needed to successfully write paragraphs. The SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy Workshop which took place on November 10-11, 2011.

Instructor:  Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Cost: $275

Workshop Flyer

Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

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