Dinah Zike Academy Courses

Middle School/High School Language Arts Institute

Experience Dinah Zike’s Foldables^® and Visual Kinesthetic Vocabulary (VKV™) manipulatives as foundational, visual-kinesthetic literacy tools. Foldables^® are tools used to help students:

develop deep and lasting understanding of content material by re-coding text and graphics, including electronic media and real-world print
manipulate the building blocks of language through VKVs™
master academic language and build personally meaningful vocabulary
write “a little, a lot” across content areas
develop literacy strategies for successful comprehension and communication

Add a third dimension to interactive notebooking via new Foldables^® in composition books, spirals, and notebooks. Assessment, differentiation, and integration of learning techniques are emphasized, along with practical train the trainer tips and research. Inform your curricular decision-making with increased knowledge of 3-D interactive graphic organizers.

Content area course: Grade 6-12 focus. Contact hours: 22

Upcoming Institute Dates
Month	Dates	Session #	Subject Areas / Level or Focus	Enrollment Close Date
January	01/25-01/27	01	MS/HS Language Arts	01/07/2011
August	08/02-08/04	19	MS/HS Language Arts	07/15/2011

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