Take a Parent or Student Workshop!
Whether you are a parent or a student, I provide innovative workshops to support academic success. Please call me at 503-505-0935 for or email me at sl.callen@comcast.net for more information on registering for workshops.
In addition, I am very excited to announce that my partnership with the Lake Oswego School District to provide parent and student workshops will continue into Winter 2010-2011. Visit www.losdcommunityschool.org to see registration details.
Workshops for the Lake Oswego School District Community School!
The Real Deal-Homework Strategies that Work: A Parent's Guide: Tired of being your child’s police office when it comes to homework? Remove conflict and provide valuable support, motivation, and direction with these proven strategies for academic success. Discover how to get a math, grammar or literature refresher at any grade level to be the expert homework coach in your house! Cover your bases with these specific tips to help your child improve test performance, earn better grades and enjoy school more.
Parent’s Guide to Reading Readiness for Preschoolers, Ages 2 to 5 Make your child a reader for life with this fascinating and entertaining class for both parents and grandparents. Find out about emerging literacy and get informed on how to succeed in the essential role as your child’s first reading teacher. This class offers fresh, inexpensive activity ideas and strategies that are simple to implement and easy to learn. Supporting powerful academic growth, these tools enrich learning opportunities and provide hours of family fun and lifetime memories.
Writing a Winning College Application Essay Show your intelligence and style with these easy to learn strategies to write an effective college application essay that will impress the admissions board and get you accepted! Learn great openers, essential do’s and don’t s, and top mistakes to avoid. These special tips and established techniques will simplify one of the most important and challenging parts of the college application process. Registered students may bring both parents for no additional fee. When you think that an average college education for an undergraduate degree is roughly $80,000, $55 is a small price to pay to increase the chances of getting into the college of choice.
Reading, Writing and Literature Analysis: A Parent’s Guide Ages 6-11 Improve your child’s reading comprehension and master the most important rules of basic grammar, writing, and early literature analysis with this fascinating class designed to give you and your child confidence to achieve a level of literacy development that is essential to academic success. These targeted strategies will help your child read for both pleasure and study, and will give the essential steps to organizing thoughts and ideas before writing begins. Get a refresher on the basics of literature analysis at this level which will set the stage for success in the higher grades.
Reading, Writing and Literature Analysis: A Parent’s Guide Ages 12-18 Language arts at this level moves from an emphasis on elementary reading and writing skills, to an increased weight placed on reading as a basis for targeted writing responses. Time in school will be spent discussing characters, turns of plot, and trying to understand the abstract concepts of theme and irony. Quality research for both fiction and non-fiction writing assignments becomes essential. Prepare to help your student as coursework quickly moves from simple reading and writing tasks to longer reports, complex essays, and class presentations.
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