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Practical Strategies for Preparing Your Pre‑K and Kindergarten Students to Meet the

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS in Literacy

NEW Seminar Presented by ANgelA cAMeRONOutstanding Early Childhood Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically designed for educators Working with Preschool and Kindergarten children

hh Easy and practical literacy lessons designed specifically to address each of the Common Core State Standards in kindergarten and prepare pre‑K students for the reading, writing, listening, and speaking standards

hh Classroom‑tested mini‑lessons to scaffold the literacy learning of young students to prepare for the rigorous requirements in the Common Core State Standards

hh Strategies, games, songs, and tools to link pre‑K and kindergarten classroom instruction to the Common Core State Standards for reading and writing

hh Dozens of ideas to address the critical foundational skills including print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language

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Ten Key Benefits of Attending 1. Practical, Ready‑to‑Use Strategies Just for Preschool and

Kindergarten Classrooms to Address the Common Core State Standards for Literacy and Language Discover dozens of engaging and fun strategies, ideas and activities you can use in your pre‑K and kindergarten classroom that specifically target the Common Core State Standards … Easy and ready‑to‑go lessons!

2. Practical Activities to Address the Critical Components of Early Literacy in the Common Core State Standards Learn practical, highly effective ways to address print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, and oral language development … Whole group and small group lessons and activities

3. Strategies to Build a Strong Language Foundation to Increase Success on Common Core State Standards Lead your pre‑K and kindergarten students in vocabulary and oral language lessons to teach and accelerate their language skills … Fun and engaging lessons that will increase all students’ language skills

4. Powerful Writing Lessons that Meet Varying Readiness LevelsIncrease your students’ writing skills using activities that motivate them to write more … Activities to help students focus and stay on topic – whether they are writing words or are at the drawing stage

5. Developmentally Appropriate StrategiesLearn specific, developmentally appropriate activities for three‑, four‑ and five‑year‑old students that address the Common Core State Standards … Dozens of strategies, mini‑lessons and activities you will be able to use immediately in your classroom

6. Easy‑to‑Use Activities for Learning Centers with a Common Core State Standards FocusCreative learning center ideas perfect for young learners … Encourage student learning through fun, independent practice

7. Increase Your Teaching Options Dozens of easy‑to‑use activities and strategies to enhance your reading and writing instruction … All specifically designed for young learners

8. Differentiate Your Instruction to Meet Students at Their LevelMeet the diverse learning needs and readiness levels of your students with innovative activities and strategies … Hands‑on learning at its best!

9. Teach and Reinforce the Common Core State Standards with Children’s LiteratureHow to use quality literature titles that connect to the Common Core State Standards … Receive an extensive bibliography of titles perfect for young learners

10. Receive an Extensive Resource HandbookYou will receive a comprehensive Common Core State Standards resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar that is filled with all the best strategies, activities, ideas, and literature suggestions you can use immediately in your pre‑K or kindergarten classroom!

Practical Ideas and Strategies

What do the Common Core State Standards in literacy mean for our pre‑K and kindergarten classrooms? This seminar is specifically designed to address the strands in the Common Core State Standards for literacy and language with practical and doable strategies and activities you can use immediately with your students. Angela Cameron has organized and created a day filled with practical, hands‑on activities, mini‑lessons, center ideas, and literature links that align with the Common Core State Standards. You will leave with dozens of ideas to help all your preschool and kindergarten students become engaged in reading and writing, wherever they are in their literacy readiness level. Join Angela for a fast‑paced day filled with strategies to help your pre‑K and kindergarten students prepare to meet the Common Core State Standards for literacy.

To Register, call Toll-Free

1-800-735-3503

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Outstanding Strategies You can use Immediately

hh Practical strategies to help your students prepare for and develop the skills required in the Common Core State Standards for literacy

hh Numerous writing activities that may be used with students of all writing abilities – from drawing to whole sentences!

hh “Hear it today, use it tomorrow!” Literacy strategies that WORK!

hh Enhance your literacy lessons with quality children’s literature titles that connect to the Common Core State Standards

hh Highly effective and classroom‑proven strategies to meet the needs of early and emerging readers and writers

hh Fun and comprehensible ideas for teaching blending and segmenting of phonemes

hh Classroom‑tested mini‑lessons to scaffold the literacy learning of your students to prepare for the Common Core State Standards

hh Boost and accelerate literacy skills with songs, rhymes and poems that teach and support students

hh Creative ways to increase and accelerate all your students’ vocabulary

hh Activities, tools and techniques using both oral and written language to stimulate children’s positive relationship with literacy

hh Maximize your current materials and learn how you can integrate the Common Core State Standards into what you already have and use

This was one of the best seminars I have ever attended! Very informative with real examples.”

– TaTiana C. Gaddis, TeaCher

Bureau of Education & Research915 118th Avenue SE • PO Box 96068 • Bellevue, WA 98009-9668Phone (800) 735-3503 • Fax (425) 453-1134 • www.ber.org

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A Message From Your Seminar

leader, Angela cameron

Dear Colleague:

Teaching preschool and kindergarten has given me some of my greatest joys, as well as my biggest challenges! Each year brings a new set of eager, smiling faces to my classroom – each one with a different set of experiences. Some were read to before they were born while others have rarely, if ever, held a book or crayon in their little hands. Some walk through the doors already reading and writing while others don’t recognize their printed names. One thing they all do have in common is an eagerness and expectation to learn to read and write! I know you face these same challenges wherever you teach. And we now have a new set of challenges – the Common Core State Standards. How do we ensure that each student is prepared for success with the Common Core State Standards by the time they leave kindergarten? This one‑day, comprehensive seminar will address this challenge!

I am excited to share dozens of developmentally appropriate strategies, ideas, mini‑lessons, and activities you can immediately use with your three‑, four‑ and five‑year‑old students. You will find all the strategies meet the varying readiness levels and learning abilities in your classroom. Not only are these lessons classroom‑proven and research‑based, but most importantly, they are fun for students and teachers. They teach the Common Core State Standards in the playful ways that our students learn best. This day will be packed with easy‑to‑implement and ready‑to‑go ideas that my students love and yours will too!

Please join me for a fast‑paced, energetic, worthwhile seminar designed specifically for YOU – pre‑K and kindergarten teachers! You will walk away with a multitude of ideas that you can use immediately! Whether you are a veteran teacher or a new one just starting out, EVERYONE will find new ways to teach the Common Core State Standards for reading, writing and language. I look forward to meeting each of you at the seminar and sharing our passion for teaching young children to read and write!

Sincerely,

Angela Cameron

P.S. You will receive the extensive, easy‑to‑use resource handbook I designed just for this seminar. It is packed with ideas, strategies, mini‑lessons, and activities for teaching each of the kindergarten Common Core State Standards for literacy and language!

I am excited to share dozens of developmentally appropriate strategies, ideas, mini‑lessons, and activities you can immediately use with your three‑, four‑ and five‑year‑old students.”

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uniquely Qualified Instructor

ANgELA CAMERON is a dynamic early childhood and kindergarten teacher and national trainer on the Common Core State Standards for pre‑K and kindergarten. Her background includes many years of classroom experience in preschool, kindergarten and primary classrooms as well as extensive travel as a national speaker and seminar leader. Throughout her career, Angela has developed a passion for working with young students, including ELL and at‑risk students. The activities and lessons she has developed help all students, including the strugglers, to close the achievement gap before they fall too far behind. She is noted for her enthusiasm and her love for her students is obvious in her seminars. Her presentations are clear, fast‑paced and activity‑packed. You will leave with a wealth of new ideas you can easily use in your own pre‑K and kindergarten classrooms. Angela is the author of Practical Strategies for Preparing Your Pre‑K and Kindergarten Students to Meet the COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS in Literacy, the extensive resource handbook each participant will receive at the seminar. Join Angela for a fun day filled with many practical ideas to help all your students prepare to meet the Common Core State Standards.

What Your colleagues Say About Angela cameron

“Great job! Angela was well prepared and it is obvious she knows her material. Thanks for a great day!” – Kathleen DeGeus, Preschool Teacher

“Ms. Cameron is very qualified and shares awesome ideas! She has a great sense of humor and the seminar day flew by.” – Elena Coughlin, Pre‑K Teacher

“The activities and games were amazing and there are many ideas I can take back to use in my classroom. This was absolutely my favorite seminar!”

– Christa A. Hitt, Pre‑K Teacher

“Great seminar! Packed full of developmentally appropriate activities that you can use immediately in your classroom. Angela is knowledgeable and fun! The seminar flies by as you are gaining useful information and enjoying yourself.”

– Jennifer Snow, Pre‑K Reading Teacher

“Totally packed with wonderful ideas that are aligned with the Common Core. My peers will want to attend!” – Teresa J. Finnern, Pre‑K – 3rd Grade Teacher

“Angela has great activities that connected to the Common Core. I enjoyed this seminar and found Angela very insightful with a great sense of humor. Thank you!” – Janinne Joseph, Kindergarten Teacher

“I appreciated that this seminar was jam‑packed with real activities that are practical and easy to use.” – Elaine Miazga, Pre‑K Teacher

“This seminar was awesome! The ideas presented were practical and easy to apply in the classroom.” – Connie Palmer, Pre‑K Teacher

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can’t Attend?A related BER seminar, 101 Mini‑Lessons to Strengthen Your Preschool or Kindergarten Program: Strategies that Work!, presented by another BER expert, Carolyn McMahon, is available on CDs with a comprehensive resource handbook at a cost of $99.00 plus $9.00 shipping and handling. To order, call toll‑free 1‑800‑735‑3503 (Stock #A‑QMM‑1900) or use the order form on the back page.

Special Benefits of Attendingextensive Resource handbookEach participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

h• Activities to teach basic print features, phonological awareness, phonics, and word recognition

h• Lessons for teaching writing purposes, production, research, and conventions

h• Ideas for vocabulary acquisition, speaking and listening

h• Numerous children’s literature titles to use with the Common Core State Standards

Meet and ShareThis seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in preparing pre‑K and kindergarten students to prepare to meet the Common Core State Standards in literacy.

consultation AvailableAngela Cameron will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester credit OptionOne graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of

a follow‑up practicum project. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at the seminar.

Meet Inservice RequirementsAt the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

Wonderful enthusiasm and valuable information. I cannot wait to try these strategies in my own classroom.”

– Paris walker, kinderGarTen TeaCher

Practical Strategies for Preparing Your Pre‑K and

Kindergarten Students to Meet the COMMON CORE STATE

STANDARDS in Literacy

RESouRcE HandBooK

by angela cameron

Bureau of Education & Research

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FeeThe registration fee is $229 per person, $209 per person for groups of five or more registering at the same time. Call us at 1‑800‑735‑3503 for groups of ten or more. Payment is due prior to the program. No cash please. Fee includes seminar registration, morning coffee and tea, a personalized certificate of participation, and an extensive resource handbook.

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Further QuestionsCall the Bureau of Education & Research (800) 735‑3503 or visit us online at www.ber.org. The Bureau is North America’s leading presenter of seminar training for professional educators. Programs are based on sound research, are highly practical in content and consistently receive excellent evaluations.

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hotel accommodations available at Embassy Suites – Brooklyn Center, (763) 560‑2700hh Providence: Radisson – Airport, (401) 739‑3000hh St. Louis: Crown Plaza – Airport, (314) 291‑6700hh Salt Lake City: Hampton Inn & Suites – Airport, (801) 530‑0088hh Springfield: Residence Inn, (417) 890‑0020

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Who Should AttendPreschool and Kindergarten Teachers, Head Start Teachers, Instructional Assistants, Special Education Staff, and Administrators.

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