Language Arts Best Practices at Your Fingertips

Who?   You, the master teacher who wants awesome ideas for incorporating the 4 Domains!

What?   Language Arts training for the interactive classroom which addresses the 7 Strands!

When?   Anytime you have a spare moment, you know – that moment when your own child is at baseball or ballet practice!

Where?   Anywhere you want the training to take place – you are the master of your plan!

How?   Just register now, and get started when it’s convenient for you!

Self-Paced Training

Your time is valuable!  Our online courses allow you to stop and start as needed throughout each course.  With no imminent deadlines, you are the scheduler of your own training. Just imagine how efficient you can be if you can acquire training hours while you’re waiting on your dinner to bake or while you’re waiting on your child’s practice to finish?  Sign up now to start using your time wiser than EVER!

Printable Handouts

Do you appreciate having a tangible hand-out while you’re accomplishing your training goals?  You got it!  Each course is accompanied by a corresponding hand-out that is ready to use with your students!  Our hand-outs go beyond the worksheet – get ready to fold, cut, and create your way to interactive lessons at the click of a button.  All you need to do is press PRINT, well, after your register, of course!

CPE Hours

Earn CPE hours of varying amounts depending on the course you complete.  A personalized certificate is available at the end of each course. Are you ready to earn CPE credit on a timeline that you create?  Then register now to start earning valuable training, knowledge, and CPE credit all at the same time!

Our Most Popular Courses

129.00

How to Grade an Expository Composition

Assessing composition writing is a task that many teachers dread! Well dread no more….register for this all-encompassing 6-hour online course and you will actually begin to look forward to grading your students’ Expository Compositions.

*UPDATED COURSE COMING SOON*

Expository CAFE (Grades 3-8)

In this first course of our three-day expository training series, teachers will dive into expository foundations. Participants will experience introductions, brainstorming, organizing of thoughts/ideas, developing thoughts/ideas, and HAT conclusions.

29.00

Reading WRITE @ Home READING – Passage Analysis Part 1

Get ready to see children’s confidence soar, as they learn strategies that will take them into adulthood! Reading and Writing should be a time for bonding, not a time for added stress, so get ready to see a whole new reader and writer in your house!

29.00

Reading WRITE @ Home READING – Passage Analysis Part 2

Get ready to see children’s confidence soar, as they learn strategies that will take them into adulthood! Reading and Writing should be a time for bonding, not a time for added stress, so get ready to see a whole new reader and writer in your house!

29.00

Reading WRITE @ Home READING – Question & Answer Analysis

Get ready to see children’s confidence soar, as they learn strategies that will take them into adulthood! Reading and Writing should be a time for bonding, not a time for added stress, so get ready to see a whole new reader and writer in your house!

80.00

Literary Foundations (Grades PK-2)

The Foundations Course is dedicated to brain-based strategies for writing interesting, engaging compositions. Teachers are introduced to the vertical alignment of The Writing Academy process during this course.

80.00

Expository (Grades PK-2)

In this PK-2 Expository course, teachers will dive into expository foundations. The course will begin with thorough prompt analysis, focusing on the difference in thesis writing depending on the three types of WHY prompts. Participants will experience introductions, brainstorming, organizing of thoughts/ideas, developing thoughts/ideas, and HAT conclusions.

Brownsville ISD Editing and Revising

Tackle the objective section of the assessment head-on! You will experience sentence structure and grammar rules being brought to life. Students will know what it means to SEE a sentence, and BE a sentence.

*UPDATED COURSE COMING SOON*

Expository PLUS (Grades 3-8)

In the second course of our three-day expository training series, participants will experience how to take the foundation of Expository CAFE and learn how to achieve 3’s and 4’s. OCTO Surgery will become OCTO MORE, How and Why CAFÉ will become CAFÉ PLUS, and much more!

80.00

Expository (Grades 9-12)

In the Expository (9-12) course participants will experience how to take the foundation of Expository CAFE and learn how to achieve 3’s and 4’s. If you would like to empower your kids to reach their fullest writing potential through hands on, tangible, brain-based strategies, you do not want to miss this course!

*UPDATED COURSE COMING SOON*

Expository CAFE (Grades 3-8) with Make and Take

In this first course of our three-day expository training series, teachers will dive into expository foundations. Participants will experience introductions, brainstorming, organizing of thoughts/ideas, developing thoughts/ideas, and HAT conclusions.

*UPDATED COURSE COMING SOON*

Expository PLUS (Grades 3-8) with Make and Take

In the second course of our three-day expository training series, participants will experience how to take the foundation of Expository CAFE and learn how to achieve 3’s and 4’s. OCTO Surgery will become OCTO MORE, How and Why CAFÉ will become CAFÉ PLUS, and much more!

220

Expository (Grades PK-2) with Make and Take

In this PK-2 Expository course, teachers will dive into expository foundations. The course will begin with thorough prompt analysis, focusing on the difference in thesis writing depending on the three types of WHY prompts. Participants will experience introductions, brainstorming, organizing of thoughts/ideas, developing thoughts/ideas, and HAT conclusions.

80.00

Persuasive (Grades 9-12)

At the conclusion of this course, teachers will leave with strategies and activities that will help even struggling writers approach persuasive/argumentative writing with confidence. Handouts will expose them to the logos, pathos, and ethos rationales. Individual and group activities will allow students to polish their persuasive skills and make convincing arguments in fun ways.

220

Literary Foundations (Grades PK-2) with Make and Take

The Foundations Course is dedicated to brain-based strategies for writing interesting, engaging compositions. Teachers are introduced to the vertical alignment of The Writing Academy process during this course.

220

Persuasive (Grades 9-12) with Make and Take

At the conclusion of this course, teachers will leave with strategies and activities that will help even struggling writers approach persuasive/argumentative writing with confidence. Handouts will expose them to the logos, pathos, and ethos rationales. Individual and group activities will allow students to polish their persuasive skills and make convincing arguments in fun ways.

220

Expository (Grades 9-12) with Make and Take

In the Expository (9-12) course, participants will experience how to take the foundation of Expository CAFE and learn how to achieve 3’s and 4’s. If you would like to empower your kids to reach their fullest writing potential through hands on, tangible, brain-based strategies, you do not want to miss this course!

385

Composition Bundle (Grades PK-2)

This bundle includes the Expository (PK-2) with Make and Take course and the Literary Foundations (PK-2) with Make and Take course. Make and Take boxes and materials will be mailed to the physical address that you provide at checkout and will arrive within a week of purchasing the PK-2 Composition Bundle.

*UPDATED COURSES COMING SOON*

Composition Bundle (Grades 3-8)

This bundle includes the Expository CAFE (3-8) with Make and Take course and the Expository PLUS (3-8) with Make and Take course. Make and Take boxes and materials will be mailed to the physical address that you provide at checkout and will arrive within a week of purchasing the 3-8 Composition Bundle.

385

Composition Bundle (Grades 9-12)

This bundle includes the Expository (9-12) with Make and Take course and the Persuasive (9-12) with Make and Take course. Make and Take boxes and materials will be mailed to the physical address that you provide at checkout and will arrive within a week of purchasing the 9-12 Composition Bundle.

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Language Arts Training Helps Everyone!

Randi Whitney, Owner & Author

Teachers are learners by nature, and nothing delights an educator more than learning something new that can be immediately taken back to students.  Quality training has a direct correlation to student outcomes, and outcomes occur in many forms. Sometimes outcomes are test scores, but the lifetime teacher, finds the greatest joy when she/he knows that the difference made will last forever!  Join us for the TBLA Online Courses for an InterActive experience that will leave you feeling knowledgeable and confident. Our online courses for teachers are designed and written with educators in mind. They are correlated to state standards, follow a logical scope and sequence, are based on research, and provide state accredited CPE training hours. Wait no more to begin your own self-paced, inservicing plan!

Students learn in a variety of ways, so it is important that we provide a multitude of activity types at their finder tips. Included in the TBLA Online Courses for students are lessons that address the auditory, visual, and tactile learners.  Be ready to color, cut, fold, build, and respond in a variety of fashions as your students progress through the Language Arts lessons. Nothing garners students’ attention like meeting them right where they are academically and emotionally. Our online courses for students are excellent for parents to use at home or for teachers to use with small focus/tutorial groups.

Join parents everywhere who are searching for ways to help their children learn to comprehend what they read and transfer their great ideas into writing. Students of all ages struggle at different times and in different ways, but what if something existed that reduced learning stress at home and turned evenings of learning into bonding time? The answer is right here, and you can have it right now. Online courses with InterActivities of drawing and folding can change the course of a person’s love for reading and writing forever. Register NOW!

What Our Students Have to Say...

The presentation was excellent! She uses materials that are affordable and easy to make. The information was great for my students, but at the same time, I was also thinking about how much this can help my own high school kids at home!
Beatriz Bagley - 2nd Grade Teacher
Academy of Accelerated Learning
I think what I love the most is how passionate the consultant is – you can tell that you are serious about getting teachers trained, knowledgeable, and excited about teaching. I loved all the hands-on activities and games. I can’t wait to use this with my kids!
Courtney Simeone - 3rd Grade Teacher
Creekside Elementary - Livingston ISD
This training was absolutely wonderful! It makes me excited for school to start!
Janice McGowen - English Teacher
DAEP - Tyler ISD
I love the enthusiasm. I learned so much. I loved the activities the most!
Diana Carolina Serna - 3rd Grade Teacher
Valley View Elementary - Valley View ISD
Nobody else takes something so seemingly immense and impossible and transforms it into a step-by-step process that kids (and teachers) will internalize and will have FOREVER!
Marie Krueger-Miller - 4th Grade Teacher
Arabic Immersion School - Houston ISD
I loved the hands-on activities and graphic organizers. I really loved having the perspective of a STAAR grader!

Tricia Bolz - Principal
Dodd Elementary - Krum ISD

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