Description
Let primary students amaze you with creativity and critical thinking skills. Discover great resources that are probably already in the school library to help you explore results-based thinking. Come with an open mind, willing hands, and a loving heart for the littlest learners!
In this course, participants will use children’s literature to help primary learners:
- Engage in creative thinking, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Better understand acceptance and individuality
- Practice problem-solving
- Develop visual and spatial thinking skills
Maria – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas
Kathy – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the selection of children’s literature to go with each strategy. Using literature is a great way to engage your students.
Margarita – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
very interesting training learned many strategies to use with my gifted students.
Sharon – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I thoroughly enjoyed the book suggestions and activities to go along with each.
LAURA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I will be able to use all of the strategies I learned about using literature to engage my students.
GRACE S – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course. I love that it showed us specific books to use with activities, all of them great ideas!
Aromi – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has so many wonderful book titles and ideas!
Bricia – ASHLAND CITY (verified owner) –
Very practical!
Karen – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Melissa – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
This course gave a lot of great books that can be used for multiple areas of teaching in the classroom. I liked that they used lesser-known books to get their idea across.
Lori – Mobile County School District (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Judith – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and informative course. I was blown away by the different ways to take a simple story and make it so engaging hands on as well as thought provoking for children of all ages.
Sondra – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course. I LOVE children’s literature and anytime I can use it to teach multiple skills I am happy. Some of these books I have not used in my class but I will now.
sydney – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
This course was of my favorite courses that I have taken so far. The presenters were engaging and gave lots of real world activity examples to use with the books they were presenting. I highly recommend taking this course if you need hours or if you need creative ideas of activities to use with meaningful literature. This course was VERY resourceful to me as a kindergarten teacher.
Amanda – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course that provides lots of engaging activity options for students as well as a wonderful variety of books that can be used in the classroom.
Sandra – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked that it went from point to point, there was not a lot of down time. Good ideas to use w/ all kids using literature.
Johanna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I wish this course was more tailored for all grade levels instead of just elementary. I wish I knew that before registering for the course.
Becky – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I LOVE LOVE LOVE learning about new literature to use in the classroom. My mind thinks in books and now I have some new books to use for my students. This was one of my most favorite courses EVER to take. I got such AMAZING ideas from it.
Connie – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved all of the literature presented and example lessons.
Martha – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
I loved this course. It was very resourceful because it not only introduced us to a variety of examples of children’s literature, but also provided us with discussion questions and follow up activities for each book.
Arianne – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great, new ideas to use with children’s literature!
Mary – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave ideas you could use right away in your classroom. It gave ideas you could use as extensions for your early finishers.
Jennifer – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was quick, helpful, and provided a great list of mentor texts.
Trish – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the great ideas presented in this workshop! Many of them however, were discussion based, and I would have liked to see more independent stations.
Vonda – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Great examples
I want all of the books
Sheila – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
I got really practical ideas from this book that I will use with my enrichment groups.
Asya – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas if your curriculum allows you to fit those activities in.
Ashley – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
this was a great course for every elementary teacher!!!
Lori – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course had many great ideas that I can easily use in my classroom.
Tanji – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas/
Waulea Renee – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Real, primary grade applications.
Jessica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course.
Lavina – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great books and ideas. Thank you!
Leigh Ann – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
By the title of this course, I thought it would be about stations or centers. It was about children’s literature.
Kassie – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
wonderful course with great resources!
Amanda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the ideas given with each book.
Heather – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great. I learned about a different way to organize books. I also learned about some new books I had never read personally. There were many great activities modeled in this course that are easy to implement in the classroom!
Patricia – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
This hit home for me and how to use certain books with my Kinders! I learned strategies on how how much I can use my books to enhance their thinking and not just reading for fun.
LaTesha – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. I would change the name of the course because I thought it was about developing stations for GT learners.
Pamella – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it great suggestions .
Shannon – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
The hands on ideas that were given were applicable across grade levels and also very easy to take back and being immediately.
Stacy – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I would highly recommend this course because it allows you how to engage children into literature.
Jennifer – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful in providing examples of Children’s Literature and applying it to multiple thinking strategies.
Megan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I love all the book suggestions to engage our learners.
dianna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the ideas that were presented. Very informative and useful ideas.
Wendey – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great story ideas for creativity!
elizabeth – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Lynette – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The course was simply presented in manner that will allow for easy integration of the lessons learned in your classroom. Although the lessons were simple, they supported teaching of some fairly complex but important skills.
Jennifer – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
So many fun literature ideas!
Mary Wright – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great Literature