Session Details

The 2025-26 Char-Em ISD ELA Collaborative will be a book study and collaborative learning environment in which attending teachers will share their experience, success, and challenges in the ELA classroom. The two sessions, fall and winter, will include a book study of Kelly Gallagher's To Read Stuff You Have To Know Stuff - Helping Students Build and Use Prior Knowledge. This year's book study and collaborative will focus on encouraging students to become better readers and writers by focusing on the small steps it takes to become proficient at both.

• Words: How building knowledge helps students to overcome word poverty.
•  Sentences and Passages: How building knowledge helps students to comprehend "small" reading.
•  Articles: How building knowledge helps students to critically read articles--an important skill in the digital age.
•  Books: How building knowledge moves students away from fake reading and back into reading full-length books.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Tenets
Challenged, Engaged, and Supported

Dates
October 8
February 4

Time
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Location
Char-Em ISD Charlevoix

Audience
Teachers grades 6 -12, paraprofessionals

Facilitator
Mark Seymour, Boyne City High School Teacher

• Building Vocabulary
• Building and using Background Knowledge
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing Fundamentals

Pending approval, State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) will be offered for this training series. Further information will be provided by the presenter at each session.