Date October 3, 2012 Time 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Cost $30.00 Includes materials & light snack

1. Back again by populardemand Ventura County Office of Education: Curriculum and Instruction Stanley C. Mantooth Ventura County Superintendent of Schools Practical, Authentic Writing Strategies That Prepare Your Students for Success on the 4th Grade State Writing Assessment and Empower Them for Every Writing Assignment Presented by: Angela Elizondo Baxter & Judy Bowers Date October 3, 2012 Time 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Cost $30.00 Includes materials & light snack Location Salon C Conference & Educational Services Center 5100 Adolfo Rd. Camarillo, CA 93012 • Learn authentic performance tasks that empower your writers with 21st Century • Skills (Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking) grounded in the Common Core Standards. • Receive a detailed crunch plan to help you pace and teach effective strategies for each of the assessed genres right up to testing day. • Walk away with an armful of terrific materials and a head full of teaching strategies to boost students’ writing abilities for the state test and every other day. • Teach writing in all the content areas to maximize writing opportunities and prepare for the Common Core Standards. • Learn writing strategies and strategic planning to create effective grouping and differentiation. • Engage all learners and shelter instruction for English learner students (i.e., total physical response, chants, songs, sketching, acting out the organizational writing plan, innovative graphic organizers, sentence frames, note-taking, fixing up errors and more)! • Revisit, refine and expand your expertise since our January, 2012 State Writing Workshop. Name: School/DO: Grade: Address: Phone: Email: Fax: Check/PO: Contact: Kathy Post, Sr. Secretary Curriculum & Instruction Support, CESC kpost@vcoe.org (805) 437-1344 Registration: Fax (805) 389-6478