May the Fours be with You- The WRITE Prescription Writing Trainings
August- March Fees One Day = $2,000
(includes handouts and all materials listed below for up to five teachers)
Multiple Days = $1,750 per Day
(includes handouts and all materials listed below for up to five teachers per day)
MORE THAN FIVE TEACHERS IN YOUR TRAINING?
Get all materials below and save $50 per teacher! ($75 per set)
April - July Special Price *$1,000 for each day of training
*$1,250 out of Lower RGV
TYPES OF TEACHER AND STUDENT/TEACHER TRAININGS
Select one or two sections below per day. (Quality over Quantity)
NEW ELAR INCORPORATING READING AND WRITING FOR 3RD TO 8TH GRADE
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM AND GRADE LEVELS:
Campus/District Writing Initiative to do open ended expository writing/grammar in all grade levels and subject areas regardless of student age or ability level
EDITING SKILLS:
Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Sentence Boundaries with Run-Ons & Fragments, & Spelling- Using Spelling to learn rules, patterns, & raise vocabulary, Conventions & Grammar (open ended & multiple choice)
REVISING SKILLS:
SentencesAdding, Removing/Replacing, & Moving Words, Phrases, Transitions, & Development/Voice, & Organization
(open ended & multiple choice)
SCORING ESSAYS:
How to grade essays accurately and give feedback and prescriptions
in a variety of ways to improve scores from one essay to the next
PIRATE THEME EXPOSITORY TRAINING FOR ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVELS
Creative staff development on the entire process of expository using a pirate theme
PURPOSES/PROMPTS/TRAITS OF WRITING:
Expository/Explaining, Persuasive/Convincing
Using the prompt page as a student friendly rubric for development, organization, & conventions
PROCESS OF WRITING: Brainstorming/Planning, Outlines, Rough Drafts,
Practical Strategies for Introductions, Body Paragraphs, Conclusions, and Transitions
May the Fours be with You! The WRITE Prescription
Writing Training/Staff Development
William C. MacDonald/Research Based Consultant/Sole Source Vendor
Phone: 956-783-7454 635 Ellis Avenue Alamo, TX 78516
Cell: 956-867-7818
Fax: 956-783-0438
Email: writing_doctor@yahoo.com
Website: www.thewriteprescription.com
MATERIALS INCLUDED AND AVAILABLE FOR TRAININGS:
25 PRIMARY ELAR FOLDERS Pre-K-3rd Grade Teachers OR 25 ADVANCED ELAR FOLDERS - $25 per teacher
comes in full color sets of 25 in 11”x 17” card stock
contains all of the following: process of expository in English and/or Spanish, open ended and
multiple choice plans for responses to reading, editing, and revising questions, penmanship,
figurative language, dialogue, and mini-thesaurus of vocabulary choices for writing essays
PENMANSHIP, GRAMMAR, EDITING, REVISING, & ESSAY BINDERS (REVISED FOR NEW TEKS)
ENGLISH-$75 per teacher SPANISH-$25 per teacher--- (sold separately)
writing strategies and tools for all of the following: penmanship, spelling, capitalization, usage, punctuation, run-ons/fragments, editing and revising in open ended and single sentence formats, editing and revising in full length passages, expository/persuasive strategies an activities, strategies on incorporating writing into reading (520 pages in full color)
50 DUAL LANGUAGE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS FOR READING, EXPOSITORY, EDITING, REVISING $25 per teacher
Comes in a train form with an engine, two cars, and a caboose for planning an outline and/or rough draft on expository or persuasive essays in both English and Spanish. Part two is a planner to help students answer reading & revising questions. Part 3 focuses on editing/grammar and penmanship.
Training includes handouts for all teachers & students
plus five sets of materials listed below per teacher per day
