Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

• Classroom Engagement
• Collaboration, and Social Skills
• Inquiry Circles
• Literature Circles
• Strategies for Teaching Reading in Content Areas
• Strategies for Teaching Writing in Content Areas

Workshops

• Comprehension, Collaboration, and Inquiry: This practical, hands-on workshop answers questions raised by concerned teachers across the country: How can I make sure my students understand, remember, and apply the content they read in social studies, science, and language arts? How can I help them to handle increasingly complex text through the year, as the outcomes require? And even more, how can I stir kids' curiosity, so that they engage deeply in big ideas, build knowledge through their schooling, and ultimately, act wisely as citizens?
• Drawing on his three recent books, Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading; Content Area Writing; and Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels will show you how kids can think better around challenging nonfiction and fiction texts, and how they can use writing as a tool for learning in all classrooms. After reviewing the cognitive strategies used by proficient readers, writers, and inquirers, Smokey will engage you in a variety of reading and writing demonstrations and mini-lessons that are adaptable across grade levels and subject areas.
• Smokey will show you how to organize productive small-group reading and writing activities that replace more passive large group discussions and end of the chapter quizzes with productive, accountable talk: The workshop will also review the typical array of school reading assignments, showing how to extend students' range, supplementing textbooks with real-world nonfiction text from print and internet sources. Finally, Smokey will demonstrate a new structure called "inquiry circles" that organizes small teams of students into curricular investigations that build deep understanding, ensure differentiation, and tap students' energy and curiosity.

Program Highlights

• three keys to growing proficient, lifelong readers and learners
• how smart readers think-and how skilled writers compose
• mini-lessons that support students before, during, and after reading and writing
• scaffolding students up a stairway of increasingly complex text
• writing as a tool of reading comprehension and discussion
• broadening students' reading diets
• how to use a textbook more effectively-and less often
• broadening students' reading diets, and building text sets of engaging material
• explicitly teaching the social skills of small group discussion
• supporting struggling readers and language learners
• formative and summative assessments of kids' growth as readers, writers, thinkers, and collaborators