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Vicki Vinton is a staff developer and consultant for the New York City Schools, specializing in middle and high school literacy. She is currently affiliated with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, where over the years she has worked with such esteemed educators as Lucy Calkins, Shelley Harwayne, Randy Bomer, and Joanne Hindley. Along with co-author Mary Ehrenworth, she wrote The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language (Heinemann, 2005), and she is also the author of The Jungle Law (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), which People Magazine called a “lyrical, elegant first novel.” A regular presenter at the yearly National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention, she has given workshops and taught at summer institutes across the country and was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor of writing at Queens College/CUNY in New York City. Additionally as a practicing and award-winning writer, she brings a passion for language and literature to every workshop she leads.
A Sample List of Professional Development Topics
- Writing Workshop
- Reading Workshop
- Assessing Student Writing
- Conferring
- Rethinking Grammar Instruction
- Using Mentor Texts
- Reading Like a Writer
- Genre Studies (Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, Essay)
- Understanding Metaphor
- Curriculum Planning in Reading & Writing
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