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We don't do enough for elementary teachers, especially those of you who teach K-3. That's why I was very excited when Salish Kootenai College professor Tammy Elser agreed to offer two daylong PDs, one in Helena, June 30, and the other in Missoula, July 18 that focuses on using picture books to help elementary students build the social studies background knowledge and vocabulary that will help them become better readers. If you teach K-5, this workshop is for you!
Integrated Literacy Strategies for Building Background Knowledge
No time to teach social studies? No time to read during the school day? Then this workshop is for YOU! Throughout the day you will learn powerful strategies for using picture books to enhance reading practice and build background knowledge and vocabulary for elementary learners. Tammy will demonstrate powerful one minute extensions to your regular read aloud routines that will support your students in building conceptual understandings making new content, facts, and vocabulary "sticky." Employing principles from cognitive science, you will explore ways to enhance students' long-term memory and retrieval and determine short fast lists of facts - or as Tammy calls them, "sets of knowns" that behave like magnets for acquisition of new knowledge.
Do you live over 45 miles away? We invite you to apply for a travel scholarship.
In Helena
In Missoula
P.S. It's not too late to take our survey about how many hours per week elementary students in your district are studying social studies--and be entered to win a $100 gas card. Curious why we are asking? Read more here.
P.P.S. NHD in Montana is sponsoring another free workshop (with travel stipends) for grades 4-12 teachers: "Historical Thinking through Student-Driven Research," August 5-6, 2025, at MSU-Billings. Learn more and apply.
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