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Matt Glover presents
Projecting Possibilities for Writers:
Designing Units of Study
GRADES K–5
Dates & Locations
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Houston, TX
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Bedford, NH
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Matt Glover presents
Projecting Possibilities for Writers:
Designing Units of Study
GRADES K–5
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Projecting Possibilities for Writers:
Designing Units of Study
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP / GRADES K–5
Matt Glover is a full time educational consultant and author. Along with Katie
Wood Ray, he is the coauthor of Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool
and Kindergarten, and Sit Down and Teach Up, a video-enhanced ebook that
combines video and text to examine conferring with young writers. He is the author
of Engaging Young Writers, which focuses on increasing energy and motivation
for all writers. He is also the author with Mary Alice Berry of the book Projecting
Possibilities for Writers: The How, What, and Why of Designing Units of Study,
K–5, which informs this workshop.
Matt is a frequent presenter at conferences and in school districts across the
country and internationally on topics related to nurturing writers and supporting
children’s intellectual growth and development. Matt works in schools with
teachers, instructional coaches, and principals to examine and improve
instructional practices related to writing. Matt has been an educator for over 20
years, both as a teacher and a principal.
Matt has worked with school districts to systemically look at units of study in
writing workshop across grade levels as part of a school’s literacy program.
He supports teachers in considering units that meet district goals while being
responsive to the needs of individual students and classes.
Matt Glover
Dates & Locations
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Who Should Attend?
Houston, TX
Classroom teachers in grades K–5, principals and administrators, curriculum
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
specialists, literacy specialists and coaches.
Bedford, NH
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H e i n e m a n n P r o f e s s i o n a l D e v e l o p m e n t O n e -D a y W o r k s h o p
Projecting Possibilities for Writers:
Designing Units of Study
GRADES K–5
Some of the most common questions teachers ask about teaching writing are “How do I decide what
to teach? How do I ensure that my mini-lessons fit the needs of my actual classroom of students?
How do I increase the pool of possibilities for what I might teach in a conference?” This practical,
hands-on workshop will engage teachers in a process for designing writing workshop units of study
that are responsive to the needs of their students.
Matt will start by building background knowledge around key concepts of writing workshop that
are necessary for creating a unit of study. Participants will practice reading like a writer in order
to improve their skill at noticing what authors do. This will allow participants to more easily see
teaching possibilities for students as they study a stack of mentor texts. Participants examine the
role of mentor texts to ensure that mentor texts they are using match what students are actually
making.
Later in the workshop, Matt will take teachers through the process of creating an actual unit of study. By going through the process for one
unit, teachers will have the skills needed to create any unit of study. Matt will guide teachers through the process by helping them study a
stack of texts, envision teaching possibilities, set primary and secondary goals, and project a sequence of possible mini-lessons.
Finally, participants will have time to start developing a unit of study they will use with their actual students. Matt will have materials for
teachers to use for a variety of units of study appropriate to a wide range of grade levels, so teachers will be able to select a unit that matches
their needs. Teachers may also bring a stack of mentor texts with them to the workshop to use to create their own unit of study.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Define the difference between projecting and planning
• Model a practical process for designing a unit of study in writing workshop
• Create flexible units that are responsive to the needs of individual classes of students
• Understand the importance of using a stack of mentor texts as the starting point for a unit of study
• Explore the role of reading like a teacher of writing in order to envision teaching possibilities
• Appreciate immersion as a crucial phase in a genre-based unit of study
• Understand the importance of choice of genre and strategies for designing non-genre specific units
• Incorporate district and state curricular goals in a unit of study
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