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January 29th Writing Workshop
Successful Teaching Approaches:
Speakers and Topics
Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D.
The Slingerland Route to Independent Written Expression
Skills  Functional Use
(grades K-3)
Critical components of written expression include letter formation, spelling, vocabulary, syntax, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, background knowledge, and organization. All must be explicitly taught to most students-especially beginning and struggling learners. Teaching skills-the pieces-are important; equally crucial to creating independent writers is instruction that integrates and teaches functional use of skills at higher and higher levels. Participants will learn how these important skills are taught using the Slingerland Approach, a multisensory, structured-language approach for teaching written language.
Dr. Nancy Cushen White has more than 30 years of experience in public schools as classroom teacher, special education teacher, and program consultant in special education curriculum with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Currently, she works as a program specialist in the Department of Special Education for SFUSD assisting teachers with delivery of multisensory structured language instruction in their special education classrooms. Dr. White works as a certified academic language therapist and specific language disability (dyslexia) consultant in private practice. She is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and a consultant for the Learning Resource Department at San Francisco Day School. Additionally, she is a teacher-training course director and faculty senate member for the Slingerland Institute. Dr. White is a past president of the Northern California Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and currently serves on the IDA Board of Directors.
Patricia Padgett, M.Ed.
Writing Adventures: Discovering Structured and Systematic Written Instruction from
Language to Essays
(grades 4-8)
Written expression remains a persistent problem for many students. Students demonstrate difficulty generating and organizing language for written tasks. Writing Adventures is an explicit, multisensory approach to the writing process. Review of the Writing Task Analysis guides a discovery of writing activities that emphasize the function of language in sentences, paragraphs, essays, and narratives. Participants will receive materials and plans to discover writing concepts and practice for mastery.
Patricia Padgett is the co-author of the Writing Adventures system (Create! Press, Inc.) and a sought-after speaker and consultant for multisensory language programs. She has made presentations at many conferences and workshops throughout the country, including the International Dyslexia Association, The Association of Educational Therapist, and branch affiliates of the American Speech and Hearing Association. Padgett has a bachelor's degree in Speech Communication and a master's degree in Education. She is an educational therapist and has been working in the areas of reading, spelling, comprehension, and writing for over 14 years.
Susan E. Warburton, Language! Trainer
Language! The Writing Strand, Building Writing and Composition Skills
(grades 6-12)
Language! is a research-based, comprehensive, literacy intervention curriculum. The program integrates 18 Reading/ Language Arts strands and builds writing and composition skills to where students can meet district and state standards. The composition strand is woven together with phonology, orthography, vocabulary, grammar, syntax and sentence structure, and comprehension. Instruction is scaffolded from the level of the sentence, to the level of the paragraph, to the level of the essay or report writing.
Susan Warburton is an area Language! Trainer, and a Training Specialist with the Sacramento City Unified School District with 35 years of teaching experience. After many years of teaching literacy at the elementary and middle school levels, she has spent the past six years training and coaching teachers in literacy skills and effective teaching practices. She is presently a training specialist for ELD teachers at Hiram Johnson High School.
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