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Betty Jo Evers
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Betty Jo Evers is an internationally recognized literacy consultant with over 27 years of successful classroom experience in early childhood education. She is well-known for her humorous, fast-paced delivery. Betty Jo has presented in all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. She is an adjunct instructor for Northern Arizona University on the graduate level where she received the Northern Arizona University Centennial Alumni Award. Betty Jo is a former Arizona Teacher of the Year/Ambassador for Excellence. She served on the K-3 Committee for the Arizona Department of Education. She is a contributing author for Wonder Writers, and authored Guided Reading Differentiated Instruction in a Small Group Setting and 6 Traits Writing.
Topics:
- Comprehension Strategies: Based on Stephanie Harvey and Ellin Keene's identified seven strategies: Prior Knowledge, Questioning, Synthesizing, Inference, Monitor and Repair, Visualization, and Determining Important Ideas.
- Reading Fluency and Automaticity: Part of "No Child Left Behind" legislation. Does fluency in reading really matter? Fluency instruction must be an integral part of classroom instruction, but how? How does automaticity support reading fluency? This session includes activities to use with children that teach fluency and word recognition that support oral reading and comprehension.
- Word Study: Discover fun and engaging activities that excite and motivate children as they play with words. This session includes word sorts, word hunts, chants, word webs, and cloze activities that teach across the content areas. Activities that help children become independent readers.
- Non-fiction in the Classroom: Non-fiction books and materials provide children with real life experiences that inspire reading. In this engaging workshop, you'll
discover the purpose for non-fiction, its unique text characteristics, and how to provide supports and challenges within a text. Best of all, you'll return to your classroom with great ideas for using non-fiction.
- Improve Reading Skills with Phonemic Awareness: Discover the critical link between phonemic awareness, phonics and reading. You'll explore creative ideas that show children how to hear sounds in the spoken language as well as strategies to increase reading and writing skills. You'll leave with fun and easy activities you can use in your classroom immediately.
- Write On! Exploring the Writing Stages of Emergent/Early Writers:
Writing should be fun and exciting - knowing the stages of writing is the motivational key! Join Betty Jo in this high-energy session to discover a child's writing stage and how to more him/her down the writing continuum t conventional spelling and independent writing. Learn to, with, and by writing components that support independent writing. You'll observe authentic children's writing samples that demonstrate each stage. Being able to evaluate a child's writing sample is the basis for grouping in reading, writing and spelling.
- Guided Reading: Differentiated Instruction in a Small Group Setting:
This session is a detailed look at the “teaching sequence” that the teacher follows during small group reading instruction. This session is for teachers who are familiar with the cueing systems as defined by Marie Clay. Betty Jo will model an emergent and early guided reading lesson from beginning to end. Vignettes of real children and authentic responses will be included. You will leave this session with confidence and excitement about teaching children to read by following the Guided Reading Teaching Sequence.
- Guided Reading for Fluent Readers: This session is for those teachers who are familiar with the cueing systems and teaching sequence for Guided Reading, and who have been teaching through this approach. Fluent Guided Reading will be the focus with emphasis on varied book introductions, fluency and comprehension strategies that help create critical thinkers and problem solvers.
- 6 Traits Writing Framework: Explore the qualities of good writing. Betty Jo introduces the six traits of writing used throughout most states to assess quality writing. Discuss rubrics that are used to score authentic writing samples and learn how they are used to support children as children move down the continuum from emergent, to early, to developing, to fluent writers.
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