Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting
Putting the WOW Back in the Classroom
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Work with Stratton Begins
The vocabulary work with Stratton Elementary in Nashville has begun and all teachers have now been trained in how to use the Beck methodology in teaching vocabulary. Keith Pruitt went through all K-4 teachers' guides for the McGraw Hill reading program and pulled lists of words at each grade level. The list also includes words from Beck, Marzano, Cunningham, and Pruitt. Observations of classroom arrangement has begun and will continue in September.
If your school district is using the McGraw Hill program, or even if they aren't, and you would like Keith Pruitt to come challenge your teachers to explode the vocabulary, please contact me. Dates remain for October in-service trainings. If your students could learn 2,000-3,000 new words per year, what impact would that have on test scores, children's behavior, and their reading abilities? With the Keith Pruitt word tree and method of exploding the vocabulary, your children will be exposed to some 2,000 words per year. Compare that to the typical spelling program used to teach vocabulary where students are only exposed to 560 words per year with the main emphasis being on spelling. What Works site lists traditional spelling programs as the least effective means of teaching vocabulary. This system of direct instruction works! Based on the phenomenal book Bringing Words to Life, let Keith Pruitt show your teachers how to use this method to dramatically change how much students are learning.
This method has been used with every demographic group and has proven success. I have been doing these trainings since 2004 and have seen results in dozens of schools. I want to bring this work to your school or district. Contact Words of Wisdom today at 615-448-7304. The price will delight you as well. You could pay over $4000/day for the work I can do for less than $1,000 total. For Metro Nashville schools and surrounding counties, WOW will work with your school or district for $2100 for the year. That includes up to five visits.
Tennessee Teacher Talk
March Edition http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/tennessee-teacher-talk-mar-2010
April Edition http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/april-2010-3875592
Tennessee Teacher Talk will return in September.
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Words of Wisdom Joins Forces with Turning A New Page
Keith Pruitt has just signed a contract with Rick McAtee the noted reading researcher to represent his company Turning a New Page in the selling of his revolutionary product Cracking The Code. This phonics intervention piece fits into any program structure and helps students understanding the patterns of words. If you are tired of paying too much for intervention that doesn't work, you need to call me. Cracking the Code is successful in working with children or adults to help improve the skills they need to engage text. Pruitt will be covering Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.
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Keith Pruitt presenting at Trevecca Nazarene University to the Reading Research Class of Alice Patterson
The purpose of Words of Wisdom is to provide the best in professional development to teachers at an affordable price.
It is our mission to change classroom practices so that every teacher is teaching the way students learn.
Words of Wisdom is dedicated to thinking outside the box and helping teachers and instructional leaders to do the same.
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Welcome to Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting ELL instructors K-12 LD teachers K-12
803 Hadley Ave, Old Hickory, TN. 37138
615-448-7304
rkpruitt1@comcast.net
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NEW WORKSHOP!!!!
Increasing Comprehensible Input in Vocabulary Instruction
Price negotiable! May be offered as a 4 continuous afterschool programs, 2 half days or 1 full day.
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Presentations
ELLs in the Classroom: Strategies That Work power point at http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/english-language-learners-in-the-classroom-strategies-that-make-a-difference
RTI: Instruction That's More Than Just Testing power point at http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/response-to-intervention-instruction-that-is-more-than-just-testing
Increasing Comprehensible Input power point http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/increasing-comprehensible-input-in-vocabulary-instruction
What Struggling Readers Need to Succeed power point
http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/what-struggling-readers-need-for-success
Cummins Interdependence Hypothesis power point http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/cummins-interdependence-hypothesis-1419039
Words and Comprehension: The Key to Growth power point http://www.slideshare.net/rkpruitt1/words-and-comprehension
Literacy Development
Writing Instruction
Comprehensive Literacy Instruction
Vocabulary Instruction
Response to Intervention
ELL and Special Needs Instruction
Put the WOW back in the classroom!
___________________________________________________________________________________ Original Art only available through Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting for usage with social studies and vocabulary instruction. Product #101- $19.99
For the study guide for Connecting Reading and Writing in the Classroom or the powerpoint of that presentation, please see the Links section of this website.
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Now Available From Words of Wisdom
It's All About Words: Reading Instruction In The Classroom- 2ndEdition 
NOW AVAILABLE
Keith Pruitt takes a close look at best practices for reading instruction. "I started out to write a book on vocabulary and ended up talking about things having to do with reading instruction." Topics include: The Truth Regarding Vocabulary Research, The Theoretical Frameworks, All Readers are Struggling?, Best Practices in the Classroom: A Compendium of Methods, and so much more. Includes a new chapter entitled Sound the Alarm: Are We Really Doing Well in American Schools?
The book is 75 pages spiral bound but is longer than the original manuscript. Has expanded bibliography for further research.
Product #100- $15.00
Schema Cards for ELL NOW READY
The much anticipated schema cards on CD for ELL provides 300 original photos from Keith and Rebekka Pruitt with corresponding words. The CD is now ready for purchase. The Teacher's Guide will be available in September.
Product #104- $59.99 CD ONLY
Product #105- $89.99 CD and Teacher's Guide (Guide will ship in September)
Schema Cards on CD 
$19.99 for set of 50
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It's All About Words Audio Workshop
Keith Pruitt's most popular presentation on vocabulary is now available on this 93 minute audio CD. The packasge includes 2 CDs and a 15 page study guide. The study guide includes a reference list for study groups, virtual tour sites, examples of graphic organizers. This presentation will change your classroom!
Product #102- $29.99
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Connecting Reading and Writing
In The Classroom
This audio workshop examines how to integrate writing as a part of literacy instruction in the classroom. Over 2 hours of training on two CDs and includes a study guide with plenty of suggestions for doing writers' workshop and teaching grammar in the classroom. Hundreds already sold!!!! Get yours today.
Product #103- $29.99
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Who Is Keith Pruitt, Ed.S.?
The last three decades of my life have been dedicated to education. As a special education teacher, school board member, graduate student, doctoral candidate, publisher's representative, consultant, preacher and author, I have seen a lot come and go in education. But one thing has remained a constant--the need for good teaching in the classroom.
As a parent, I realize the need for good instruction in the classroom. Creating life-long learners and readers is paramount. The future takes shape in the classroom. Equipping students with tools for learning is a small, howbeit important, part of what goes on in the classroom. In order to change the end product, there must be fundamental change in teacher practices.
My passion is grounded in a firm belief in the work of educational researchers like Howard Gardner, Lucy Calkins, Marie Clay, Lev Vegotsky, Isabel Beck, Roger Farr, David Pearson, Reggie Routman, Linda Hoyt, Ellen Keene, Margaret Mooney, Janet Allen and countless others. The more examination is made of excellent research and practices, the more it burns in me. It is what makes me tick. Helping teachers become the very best they can be is my passion.
Schools need instructional leaders as per Sergiovanni. At the heart of creating professional learning communities is professional development. Delivering a day of theory falls short of getting the job done. A balance of theory coupled with implementation in the classroom will result in change. Words of Wisdom workshops place a premium on providing well-researched methodologies that have been vetted in real classrooms. Teachers will leave a Words of Wisdom workshop with multiple strategies to use on day one in the classroom.
Charges for professional development have gotten out of hand. Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting believes training teachers doesn't have to break the bank. People desire quality; given the economic conditions, they also need value. For what many are paying companies for one day of training, you could get a whole week with Words of Wisdom! This is professional development that will excite and challenge your teachers' thinking and practices. Principals don't mortgage the building in order to train teachers!
- Ed.S. Argosy University/ Atlanta
- Author: It's All About Words: Literacy Instruction in the Classroom
- Over 400 articles, reviews, poems, short stories published
- Conference speaker at national and state conferences on reading, special education, English Language Learners, Title One and Adult Education
- Adjunct Trevecca University/ Nashville
- Fifteen plus years in educational publishing
- Special Education teacher
- Former member board of education
- Minister
