Workshop Descriptor:

Title: Reading Out Of The Box, Award-Winning Literature with Classroom-Ready Curriculum, Grades 3-6.

Books: Twenty-six cross-genre selections from respected literary-award lists including the Newbery^® Award Books, Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List^SM for 2012-2013, and Kids' Wings Award Books,
An astounding 773 Activity Pages!

Audience: Librarians, Teachers, and Administrators Grades 3-6 (Bring a FRIEND!)

Descriptor and Focus:

Through this year's award-winning literature, we will join characters in award-winning literature including 20 Texas Bluebonnet^SMNominees! By climbing our of our boxes and into stories with them, we will allow them to spark our imaginations, enrich our vocabularies, analyze the choices, predict how problems will be solved, squeeze into their minds, and use their wisdom to help chart paths that can the future.

Educators who KNOW the best literature will be able put the right book into the hands of a child who is searching for strength in skills, focus, or character. Master writers can become their role models to inspire students to develop their own talents as they persue their dreams. These role models can be foundational to success in helping students make wise decisions that can expand their choices, and enable them to enrich the lives of friends, family, and community around them.

Outstanding literature with focused instructional strategies in the Kids' Wings Reading Out Of The Box workshop will help young readers become better, more avid readers, thinkers, and writers. The real-life lessons in their stories cross disciplines and nurture creative and critical thinking for your gifted and talented students as well as those who are not yet identified. They increase creative problem solving and group interaction within your classroom. Award-winning literature in all genres will inspire your students to discover how characters interact to create, design, invent, and problem solve. From here, it is only a short hop to adopting these techniques to their own lives.

Award-winning literature for grades 3-7 will transform your classroom into a vibrant, interactive, exciting place.

You will receive a bound professional guide filled with hundreds of pages of creative, active ideas--excellent for literary circles as well as for individual and whole class interaction and tutoring. The activities are perfect for extending and enriching your G/T curriculum as well as an excellent source of material for directing literature circles and tutoring for all students! Join us for a breath of fresh curriculum that includes laughter, songs, problem solving, character building, and new approaches to skill building!

Participants will:
...participate in extension activities for award-winning literature.
...explore ways to integrate the curriculum around literature and library resources that enable students to become enthusiastic and skillful in research, project building, and problem solving.
...understand the possibilities that literature has for weaving respect, good choices, and character into every aspect of a child's life.
...receive Reading Out of the Box, an extensive guide with 773 pagespages of activities for 26 award-winning books. The CD inside contains the book in pdf and PowerPoint formats as well as additional activities, songs, and Jeopardy-type games for each chapter book. Also included is a site license to allow the material to be shared within your school.
...receive on-going website extensions and support through Kids Wings' website
...receive a 6-hour gifted-and-talented certificate from Kids' Wings

Let this award-winning literature 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...all keyed into Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills objectives with creative TAKS practice. This authentic learning will help improve your students' preparation for the future...preparation that values right over wrong from character to STARR testing! Come enjoy the curriculum that transforms award-winning literature into high test scores!

The units in our guides can be used for exciting parent participation in your school's tutoring program!

2012 Workshop Schedule