Workshop Title: Flying Higher Through Award-Winning Literature
Audience: Librarians, Teachers, and Parents Grades 1-3
Descriptor and focus:
This year's BEST award-winning picture books and easy chapter books will get your students off to a great start academically and socially.   Tapping into children's laughter and wonder, this literature collection builds enthusiasm for academic and social skills as well as character development. These stories with activities that cross disciplines will inspire them to lift off and before long, will have them flying higher!

Characters, settings, and situations in selections from the 55 + award-winning picture books and easy chapter books will provide a myriad of opportunity for laughter, projects, reading, writing, science, math, and music while providing scaffolding to high level thinking, cooperative discussion, character building, and more.  

Our Kids' Wings activities will be the hot-air balloons that will lead your students into an active, integrated curriculum that is rich in character, reading and math skills, science, social studies, research, problem solving, internet projects, and FUN...and provide a creative introduction to test-prep practice.

The units in Flying Higher contain exciting activities including:

Great curriculum for your Gifted and Talented Students! Outstanding literature with focused instructional strategies in Flying Higher help clarify the characteristics of gifted and talented students in your classroom. The real-life lessons cross disciplines and teach strategies for nurturing creative and critical thinking for your gifted and talented students. They increase creative problem solving and group interaction within your classroom. Literature from all genres will inspire your students to discover the joy of learning that enables them to fly higher each day!

Flying Higher can become your TUTORING program next year! Just give a parent one of these great picture books along with its Flying Higher unit and watch them return again and again for the fun of guiding your students into high level learning!

Participants will receive the professional guide and CD filled with over 500 pages of unique, active ideas--excellent for literary circles as well as for individual and whole class interaction.  Join us for a breath of fresh curriculum that includes laughter, songs, character building, and problem solving through literature. 

Participants will ~
     ...receive a valuable Teacher/Student Guide with CD and site license to allow it to be shared within ONE school.
     ...be familiar with the content and possibilities or more than 50 award-winning picture books and easy chapter books.
     ...participate in extension activities for the books.
     ...explore ways to integrate the curriculum around literature and library resources that enable students to grow excited and skillful in research and cooperative activities.
     ...understand the importance of their role in weaving respect and character into every aspect of a child's life.

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