Advanced Story Champs® Virtual Training Course – June 2024

This 6-hour live virtual training will provide attendees with knowledge of how to implement more advanced Story Champs® lessons, moving beyond basic and enhanced story structure. Attendees will be able 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. Attendees should be fluent in the implementation of basic and enhanced story structure retell and personal generation lessons with high fidelity.

Registration is limited to 25 seats per class.

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
• 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