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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.
Language Arts Training Helps Everyone!

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...
Join Our 252,000 Trained Educators Today!
Are you ready to join the Teacher Training Revolution?