Description: This 7-hour asynchronous virtual training provides knowledge of how to implement more advanced Story Champs® lessons, moving beyond basic and enhanced story structure. You will learn how to implement lessons that target complex language (i.e., causal and temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers), vocabulary, fictional generation, writing, and expository retells.
Materials required: Story Champs® 2.0 English OR Story Champs® 2.0 Spanish/English
Course prerequisite: Intro. to Story Champs® course is recommended but not required. To benefit from this training, you should have 1+ year experience implementing Story Champs Basic and Enhanced story retell and personal generation Master Lesson Plans with high fidelity.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Selecting and using Story Champs® Add On lesson plans
- Teaching complex academic language: Causal & temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers
- Moving from Enhanced (Level B) to Enhanced Plus (Level C) story structure and Advanced (Level J) story structure
- Explicit and inferential vocabulary instruction (Spot the Sparkle game)
- Teaching written personal and fictional narratives (i.e., text generation)
- Assessing narrative writing using the CUBED-3 NLM FLOWCHART
- Teaching information retell, information writing, and Tier-3 vocabulary
