From my Most Popular Summer Seminar
Materials from my Seven Elements of a Differentiated Writing Lesson Workshop
created by Corbett Harrison, Teacher & Trainer
Price: $15.00

Becoming a better-than-just-competent writing teacher is a challenging task; personally, it took me five years of slow and steady diligence to become a writing teacher who knew he was doing something right. And I'm not done yet; each year, I continue to build new ideas for my students, thanks to the "Seven Elements" Framework I created back in 2006.

What is this "Seven Elements" Framework and Training? It's designed to be a manageable goal-setting workshop and training for teachers who admit they have the desire to be even better writing teachers but aren't sure exactly where they should begin. You can learn even more about this original training (and view some of its materials for free) by visiting my 7 Elements Page here at my website.

I had been presenting smaller workshops on the seven topics listed at left for writing teachers, but I began envisioning this original content as a solid two-day workshop in 2008. Over the summer of 2010, I hired myself out to three outside-of-Nevada school districts, and they saw the training in its new two-day format. I will humbly report that this is the best workshop I've ever created. It's both thorough and thoughtful, it's solidly research-based, and it's differentiated for the participants, which makes it teacher-friendly no matter what teaching strategies participants attend to the workshop already having in place.

As I prepared for the new two-day version of this training over the summers of 2008 and 2009, I was determined to create a for-purchase companion resource that would honor and explain my original materials in such a way that anyone--even those not attending my face-to-face workshop--would learn from them and be motivated to set professional goals using them.

I offer for sale a package of ten electronic documents: Eight PowerPoints (one introductory slideshow, and one slideshow for each of the seven elements), a PDF version of the 92-page packet my participants receive at the two-day workshop, and a PDF version of my PowerPoint Slides. All for one low price!

What you're purchasing: Differentiated instruction resources that can be shared with both fellow teachers and your students! The 92-page packet from my two-day workshop in one PDF file; you will need Adobe Reader to open this file, which is a free download. Eight self-paced PowerPoints that can be shared with colleagues or studied on your own! You'll receive all eight PowerPoint presentations I use during my workshop. I designed my slides to not only be shown to groups of teachers, but also to inspire independently-motivated teachers who read through the slides on their own. I created these slides in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. And...you'll receive PDF- version of my PowerPoint slides, provided in case we have different versions of PowerPoint, or if you don't use PowerPoint. When purchased, these 10 files will be made available to you electronically--from a downloadable link that I will send you. I do not mail hard copies of my workshop materials through the U.S. mail. You will have two weeks to download the materials from the link I will send you.	Planning to purchase just my "Seven Elements" materials today? If so, use this button:	Planning to purchase this resource and any others listed on this page? Use this button:
	Please remember, I teach all day long, so you may not receive your purchase(s) immediately. If you do not receive the download link from me in thirty-six hours, please contact me at corbett@corbettharrison.com.

I apologize but I cannot take school purchase orders. I currently can only accept payments from PayPal to purchase these resources. PayPal is a safe and easy-to-use Internet service that allows you to send money to anyone, even without signing up for an account. Click the button above. Paypal will have you securely enter your credit card information, and the payment will be sent. Purchase of these materials allows you to use them in your own classroom or present them to groups of teachers you are working with.

Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Once I have been notified by PayPal that the money has arrived in my account (which can take anywhere between 2-12 hours), I will e-mail you a link where you can download the materials listed above to your own computer. The link is temporary and will expire in two weeks. You are not purchasing a hard copy of these materials; you are, instead, purchasing electronic documents that you can print for yourself.

If you have questions about this product, please feel free to contact me at Corbett@CorbettHarrison.com before ordering.

Created Specifically to Address Common Core State Standards
6-Trait Post-it Templates & Select Materials from my Critical Thinking about Writing Traits Workshop
created by Corbett Harrison, Teacher & Trainer
Price: $12.50

Here's my NEWEST workshop! I am so very proud to be offering these new materials, created and revised over the summer of 2010, which come from two of my workshops: Critical Trait Thinking, which is one of the seminars I offer outside of Nevada during the summer; and Pre-Writing and Revision, which I currently only offer as long-term, site-embedded professional development in Nevada during my contract time with the State of Nevada.

Bonus materials! Included in these materials are seventeen pages of templates for all the 6-Trait Post-it Notes I have created for the WritingFix website. Unlike the Post-it files found at WritingFix, the templates you can purchase here are editable, which means you can modify them to better fit the language of your own writing classroom!

Our Common Core State Standards require teachers to push their students to the analysis and evaluation level of Bloom's taxonomy during both reading and writing instruction. As a regular observer in K-12 classrooms as part of my full-time job for the State Department of Education, I can tell you this fact: Over 90% of the reading instruction I see doesn't push student thinking beyond the comprehension level of Bloom's. In writing, I rarely see instruction that pushes students beyond the application level. I am not being critical of teachers by saying this; the analysis level and the evaluation level of Bloom's require very high expectations of all students, and our Common Core Standards require us to raise the bar higher than ever. I am working to help make teachers aware of this shift.

Last summer, faced with the realities of Common Core Standards rolling out in my home-state in September of 2011, I began revisiting and synthesizing resources from many of my past trainings to create a new workshop that helps teachers understand and begin practicing the analytical and evaluative thinking practices for reading and writing lesson planning. I now proudly feature these materials, which have been tried and tested with over a dozen Nevada schools where I worked during this past school year.

You can preview some of the materials I am offering in this packet by visiting my Critical Trait Thinking Workshop's homepage here at my site.

What you're purchasing: Writing Trait resources that can be shared with fellow teachers or your students! You'll receive my 61-page packet of materials which contains note-taking handouts and full-page versions of all resources and teaching tools referred to in my PowerPoint slides. The packet is saved as a PDF file, and you will need Adobe Reader to open this file, which is a free download. A self-paced PowerPoint that can be shared with colleagues or studied on your own! You'll receive forty-eight slides for PowerPoint, which I designed to not only be shown to groups of teachers, but also to inspire independently-motivated teachers who read through the slides on their own. I created these slides in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. And...you'll receive a PDF- version of the forty-eight PowerPoint slides, provided in case we have different versions of PowerPoint, or if you don't use PowerPoint. And here's the bonus...you'll receive seventeen pages of editable Post-it Templates that I use during pre-writing, response, and revision time. These files are Microsoft Word files. When purchased, these four files will be made available to you electronically--from a downloadable link that I will send you. I do not mail hard copies of my workshop materials through the U.S. mail. You will have two weeks to download the materials from the link I will send you.	Planning to purchase just my "Critical Trait Thinking" materials today? If so, use this button:	Planning to purchase this resource and any others listed on this page? Use this button:
	Please remember, I teach all day long, so you may not receive your purchase(s) immediately. If you do not receive the download link from me in thirty-six hours, please contact me at corbett@corbettharrison.com.

I apologize but I cannot take school purchase orders. I currently can only accept payments from PayPal to purchase these resources. PayPal is a safe and easy-to-use Internet service that allows you to send money to anyone, even without signing up for an account. Click the button above. Paypal will have you securely enter your credit card information, and the payment will be sent. Purchase of these materials allows you to use them in your own classroom or present them to groups of teachers you are working with.

Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Once I have been notified by PayPal that the money has arrived in my account (which can take anywhere between 2-12 hours), I will e-mail you a link where you can download the materials listed above to your own computer. The link is temporary and will expire in two weeks. You are not purchasing a hard copy of these materials; you are, instead, purchasing electronic documents that you can print for yourself.

If you have questions about this product, please feel free to contact me at Corbett@CorbettHarrison.com before ordering.

Because Writer's Notebooks are One of the Best Tools for Improving Pre-Writing!
Nine Writer's Notebook Bingo Cards, with prompts and teacher-guided lessons
created by Corbett Harrison and Dena Harrison, Teachers & Trainers
Price: $9.00

Over the spring and summer of 2011, my amazing wife (Dena) and I began mining our favorite prompt collections, lessons, and writing across the curriculum materials in order to create a brand new resource that we're both very excited to use this September: Writer's Notebook Bingo Cards. We have created a brand new card for each month of the traditional school year.

Each month's card has twenty-five space; twenty-four of these spaces are topic/thinking challenges that students can creatively or logically respond to in their writer's notebooks; the center space of each card contains a link to an online notebook lesson that Dena and I plan to do--whole-class--early on each month.

Throughout the month, students will be challenged to create "five-in-a-row" Bingo(s) or "four-corners." Doing so in our classes will result in a special sticker the students can collect for their writer's notebooks. You can freely access our September Bingo Card (pictured at right) to see if you're interested in obtaining the whole set.

Northern Nevada Teachers and NNWP Consultants: Dena and I are not charging any Northern Nevada teaching colleagues who've taken any of our inservice classes or anyone who's a consultant for the Northern Nevada Writing Project. E-mail either of us and we'll send you the notebook cards to your district e-mail address.

What you're purchasing: 9 Writers Notebook Bingo Cards, for the months of September through May in PDF format. Each card contains 24 prompts and a guided, whole-class notebook lesson link. 9 Writers Notebook Bingo Cards, for the months of September through May in Microsoft Word Format. If you have Microsoft Word, you can edit these cards. Any prompts that you'd like to re-word, you have my permission to do so! On-line access to nine, whole-class lessons for writer's notebooks. Links to these lessons are in the center box of each Bingo card. Only purchasers of this product will have easy, online access to these nine lessons, which feature teacher models and mentor text suggestions. When purchased, these files will be made available to you electronically--from a downloadable link that I will send you. I do not mail hard copies of my workshop materials through the U.S. mail. You will have two weeks to download the materials from the link I will send you.	Planning to purchase just my "Writer's Notebook Bingo Cards" today? If so, use this button:	Planning to purchase this resource and any others listed on this page? Use this button:
	Please remember, I teach all day long, so you may not receive your purchase(s) immediately. If you do not receive the download link from me in thirty-six hours, please contact me at corbett@corbettharrison.com.

Contact me (corbett@corbettharrison.com) if you have questions about this product before ordering!

I apologize but I cannot take school purchase orders. I currently can only accept payments from PayPal to purchase these resources. PayPal is a safe and easy-to-use Internet service that allows you to send money to anyone, even without signing up for an account. Click the button above. Paypal will have you securely enter your credit card information, and the payment will be sent. Purchase of these materials allows you to use them in your own classroom or present them to groups of teachers you are working with.

Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Once I have been notified by PayPal that the money has arrived in my account (which can take anywhere between 2-12 hours), I will e-mail you a link where you can download the materials listed above to your own computer. The link is temporary and will expire in two weeks. You are not purchasing a hard copy of these materials; you are, instead, purchasing electronic documents that you can print for yourself.

If you have questions about this product, please feel free to contact me at Corbett@CorbettHarrison.com before ordering.

Because Skills of Writing Can (and Should) be Taught in Every Content/Core Area
Materials from my Exit Tickets Across the Curriculum Workshop
created by Corbett Harrison, Teacher & Trainer
Price: $8.00

Back in 2008, many schools I work with began asking for a specific training that would help an entire staff find a way to buy-in to the idea of writing across the curriculum. I designed a 120-minute workshop that addressed this request, centered around Exit Tickets. Exit Tickets are a technique that I have been using for years, and they involve a simple process: at the beginning of a lesson, students are introduced to an inquiry question that they will be expected to answer at lesson's end; the lesson is taught; the students write a thoughtful paragraph--or Exit Ticket--as they leave class; teachers then use the collected Exit Tickets as a quick formative assessment to gauge the need to re-teach a concept or to move on to the next one. It's a simple but effective use of writing, no matter what content is being taught to students.

I helped the schools I work with see the value of--what I came to call--Exit Tickets Across the Curriculum. I predicted that if every teacher in a middle or high school required just one Exit Ticket per week from every student, and if they taught their students to write better and better Exit Tickets over time, the amount of quality writing students would be doing would increase substantially. I predicted students would become better writers and--more importantly--better thinkers, because when you have to write about what you have learned, you are automatically thinking with a deeper cognitive levels. My predictions have proved correct. The schools I work with are seeing a huge difference in better writing...and thinking.

I have now presented my Exit Ticket workshop over thirty times well-over a thousand teachers, and I feel confident that it is one of the best set of materials I have ever created on writing across the curriculum. My workshop focuses on three topics: 1) crafting high-quality Exit Ticket questions; 2) choosing a format for Exit Tickets (I present four options) that works for different classrooms; 3) assessing Exit Tickets and responding to the data.

I now offer for sale--to teachers administrators, or professional developers--my 22-page packet of materials and the 20-slide PowerPoint show that I use during my workshop on this topic. Purchase of these materials allows you to use them in your own classroom or present them to groups of teachers you are working with. If you have questions about this product, do not hesitate to contact me at corbett@corbettharrison.com.

What you're purchasing: Exit Ticket resources that can be shared with fellow teachers or your students! You'll receive the 22-page packet from my 4-hour workshop in a PDF file; you will need Adobe Reader to open this file, which is a free download. Your computer probably came with Adobe installed on it. A self-guided PowerPoint that can be shared with colleagues or studied on your own! You'll receive the twenty-slide PowerPoint presentation I use during this workshop. I specifically designed my slides to not only be shown to my workshop's teachers, but also to inspire independently-motivated teachers who read through the slides on their own. I created my slides in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. And...you'll receive a PDF- version of my PowerPoint slides, provided in case we have different versions of PowerPoint, or if you don't use PowerPoint at all. When purchased, these three files will be made available to you electronically--from a downloadable link that I will send you. I do not mail hard copies of my workshop materials through the U.S. mail. You will have two weeks to download the materials from the link I will send you.	Planning to purchase just my "Exit Ticket" materials today? If so, use this button:	Planning to purchase this resource and any others listed on this page? Use this button:
	Please remember, I teach all day long, so you may not receive your purchase(s) immediately. If you do not receive the download link from me in thirty-six hours, please contact me at corbett@corbettharrison.com.

I apologize but I cannot take school purchase orders. I currently can only accept payments from PayPal to purchase these documents. PayPal is a safe and easy-to-use Internet service that allows you to send money to anyone, even without signing up for an account. Click the button above. Paypal will have you securely enter your credit card information, and the payment will be sent. Purchase of these materials allows you to use them in your own classroom or present them to groups of teachers you are working with.

Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Once I have been notified by PayPal that the money has arrived in my account (which can take anywhere between 2-12 hours), I will e-mail you a link where you can download the materials listed above to your own computer. The link is temporary and will expire in two weeks. You are not purchasing a hard copy of these materials; you are, instead, purchasing electronic documents that you can print for yourself.

If you have questions about this product, please feel free to contact me at Corbett@CorbettHarrison.com.

Jumpstart your writing and/or your students' writing
504 Writing Prompts & my PowerPoint on Crafting Better Introductions
created by Corbett Harrison, Teacher & Trainer
Price: $7.50

I am really proud to say that I am the teacher who created the WritingFix Website, which I did as a project for the Northern Nevada Writing Project. The very first page I built for WritingFix was its collection of Random Daily Writing Prompts for Writers. It remains one of the most popular pages at the WritingFix website; in fact, in 2010, that single page was accessed over half a million times from computers around the globe.

In Northern Nevada, where many teachers use journal writing in their classrooms, I distribute a thirty-page document at all my Writer's Workshop Trainings. This document features my favorite of the 504 writing prompts you can access at WritingFix all in one self-contained document.

If you're in Northern Nevada and want information on my next Writer's Workshop Training, please e-mail me at charrison@washoeschools.net.

If you're not in Northern Nevada but would like your own copy of these 504 writing prompts and the PowerPoint I use to teach my students to craft stronger introductions for their journal prompt writing, I am offering the following documents for sale for just $7.50.

I apologize but I cannot take school purchase orders. I currently can only accept payments from PayPal to purchase this document. PayPal is a safe and easy-to-use Internet service that allows you to send money to anyone, even without signing up for an account. Click the button above. Paypal will have you securely enter your credit card information, and the payment will be sent.

Important...Please read carefully before ordering: Once I have been notified by PayPal that the money has arrived in my account (which can take anywhere between 2-12 hours), I will electronically send you the thirty page document as a PDF file, which requires the free program Adobe Reader to open and print.

If you have questions about this product, please feel free to contact me at Corbett@CorbettHarrison.com.