2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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Accessing Complex Text in the Common Core for Primary Grades
How can teachers promote close reading in the primary grades?
New Common Core Standards promote the use of close reading of more challenging text to develop
students’ reading comprehension. This workshop addresses the question of how to make this complex text
accessible to primary grade students. Participants are asked to bring at least one short piece of rich fiction
and one piece of non-fiction that they will be teaching. Participants will:
• Define the terms close reading, complex text, annotation and scaffolding
• Practice appropriate strategies for close reading in the classroom
• Develop questions to encourage close reading of any text
• Become familiar with a repertoire of mini-lesson for close reading.
In session two, participants will:
• Share how they have implemented close reading in their classrooms
• Create one or more lesson plans for text that will be used in the classroom.
PARTICIPANTS: Teachers of English Language Arts, reading, and special education in the primary grades
and administrators
DATE/TIME: Nov 4 2013 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM; Dec 11 2013 8:30 AM - 11:30AM
COST: $167 for Curriculum Center Members; $192 Curriculum Center Non Members
LOCATION: Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES; Yorktown Heights, NY; Projects Building
FACILITATOR: Barbara Gill has been a public-school educator for thirty-eight years. She retired from
the Hendrick Hudson School District in Westchester, N.Y. where she served as an elementary building
principal and reading teacher specializing in Early Intervention. Prior to that, Barbara was an elementary
principal in Pawling, an assistant principal in Carmel, and a reading coordinator. Her teaching career
spanned grades kindergarten through grade twelve. She has extensive experience with implementing
new reading assessments and instructional programs. In addition, Ms. Gill has had a special interest in the
implementation of new state and federal programs over the last three decades. Her education includes
a Certificate of Advanced Study from SUNY New Paltz in School District Administration, an M.S. in Reading
from Western Connecticut State College, and a B.A. in English from Marist College. She holds certification
in building and district administration, reading K-12, elementary N-12, and English 7-12. Ms. Gill is available
for onsite consultation.
Literacy and Language Arts
REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY: 10/21/2013
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