Jenny Bender

CONSULTING SERVICES INCLUDE:

- Modeling best practices on-site
- Coaching educators in the classroom
- Leading out-of-classroom workshops
- Designing curriculum
- Developing assessment tools
- Supporting educational supervisors
- Training literacy coaches
- Training education students
- Helping schools and districts re-envision their
literacy programs


LEARNING TOPICS INCLUDE:

Instructional Content
- Crafting essays
- Crafting stories
- Using a writer’s notebook
- Using a reader's notebook
- Using appropriate grammar and punctuation
- Responding to literature
- Monitoring for meaning
- Reading with fluency
- Inferring
- Reading critically

Teaching Methods
- Introducing and improving whole class lessons
- Differentiating instruction: conferring and small group work
- Creating and implementing on-going assessment tools
- Using mentor texts to lift the quality of writing
- Scaffolding student conversation about literature