Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting

Putting the WOW Back in the Classroom

Presentation Topics
The following is a partial list of topics available for presentations or workshops.  Times are suggested.

  • English Language Learners in the Classroom: Strategies that Make a Difference (3 hour workshop)
  • Response to Intervention: Instruction That's More Than Just Testing (3 hour workshop)
  • Increasing Comprehensible Input in Vocabulary Instruction (6 hour workshop)
  • Connecting Reading and Writing in the Classroom (50 min-3 hours)
  • Everything I Know I Learned From Television (40 min)
  • Interactive Reading: Raising Student Engagement and Comprehension Through Critical Conversation (50 min)
  • Linking Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension (50 min-3 hours)
  • Guided Reading: The View From the 3-8 Classroom (3 hours)
  • Bringing Balance to the Literacy Program (3-6 hours)
  • Creating Schema (50 min)
  • Guided Reading and Writing for English Language Learners (3-6 hours)
  • It's All About Words: The Need for Vocabulary Instruction in the Classroom (50 min)
  • Making the Vocabulary Connection in the Middle School (50 min-3 hours)
  • Using Interactive and Independent Reading: Allowing Students to Practice (50 min)
  • Cummins' Interdependence Hypothesis: Teaching Words to Students (1 hour)
  • Homosexual Adolescents and the Case for Moral Development (1 hour)
  • Strategies for Teachers of ELL Students (50 min-3 hours)
  • Meeting the Demands of Intervention (50-6 hours)
  • How to Use Small Group Strategic Reading (3-6 hours)
  • What Really Matters to Struggling Readers? (50 min)
  • Using Balanced Literacy in the Classroom (6 hours)
  • How to Teach Vocabulary So That Students Learn (3-6 hours)
  • Being an Instructional Leader: The Sergiovanni Model (50 min)

50 Min indicates a presentation at a conference, keynote or inservice presentation.  3-6 hours indicates the workshop model for either a half day staff development or a full day staff development.

Other subjects are available on request.  Please allow at least 6-8 weeks preparation for special topics.



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Base rates for Keith Pruitt:

Up to 3 hours (considered half day)-- $375 plus expenses

4-6 1/2 hours (considered full day)--- $750 plus expenses

Prices are negotiable based on requests and travel.
Discounts available for multiple consecutive days.
Rates will vary if more than one consultant required.

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