Adrienne Gear

Effective Primary Reading Instruction
2025-01-14 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Vancouver)
This stand-alone webinar will be LIVE on Tuesday, November 14th from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, Pacific Time.

What is the most effective way to teach reading in a primary classroom? Are foundational phonics skills sufficient for students to become fully literate? Where and how does comprehension fit?
Join BC author and educator Adrienne Gear as she explores these questions, discusses the latest research and trends in reading instruction, including ideas found in the new BC Ministry’s Learning in the Primary Years document, and shares her thoughts on what an effective primary reading program might look like.
This single webinar is filled with practical tips for building a holistic reading program, lessons, assessment templates, student reproducibles, and of course, Adrienne’s favorite primary reading ANCHOR BOOKS! Come to this webinar and leave feeling reset, recharged, and ready to be an effective, responsive reading teacher!

Earth Day 2024 | STUDENT Author Visit with Alison Gear
2024-04-22 09:30 - 10:15 (America/Vancouver)

Powerful Thinking | FREE Sneak Peek Webinar
2024-04-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
In the age of inquiry-based learning, how do we create a learning environment where students are re-thinking rather than simply re-telling? How do we provide enough structure and flexibility for students to explore, stretch, and reflect on their thinking? In this webinar, BC teacher and author Adrienne Gear will share ideas from her new book Powerful Thinking that will engage your students in constructing meaning and deepening understanding in all areas of the curriculum. She will share practical ways to help bring knowledge-building into classrooms, using texts as tools to nudge students’ thinking through engaged listening and talking. Come to this session and leave inspired to bring thinking into every corner of your classroom!

Powerful Poetry | STUDENT Workshop - Session 2
2024-04-17 09:30 - 10:15 (America/Vancouver)

Powerful Thinking | LIVE Webinar - Session 2
2024-04-16 15:30 - 17:00 UTC | Webinar – Zoom
In the age of inquiry-based learning, how do we create a learning environment where students are re-thinking rather than simply re-telling? How do we provide enough structure AND flexibility for students to explore, stretch and reflect on their thinking? In this new webinar series, Adrienne Gear, will share ideas from her new book, Powerful Thinking, that will help you engage your students in constructing meaning and deepening understanding in all areas of the curriculum.
Using the key concepts and strategies from her book, Reading Power, Adrienne will share practical ways to create a “culture of thinking” in the classroom, not just in your literacy block but across all areas of your curriculum! She will share lessons to help bring knowledge-building into classrooms by using texts as tools to nudge students’ thinking through engaged listening and active conversations. Come to this session and leave with a list of practical strategies and engaging anchor books to help your students develop into powerful readers and thinkers!

Powerful Poetry | STUDENT Workshop - Session 1
2024-04-10 09:30 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver)

Powerful Thinking | LIVE Webinar - Session 1
2024-04-09 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | Webinar – Zoom

Novel Studies & Literature Circles - For Intermediate Teachers | Session 2
2023-02-15 15:30 - 17:30 UTC | Webinar – Zoom
MAKING the MOST out of the MOST AMAZING novels!
Looking for some new ideas on how to use novels in your class? Here is the webinar for you!
Back in the day, Novel Studies consisted of assigning chapters to read and comprehension questions to answer. No discussions, not a lot of prep and the best part – NO TEACHING REQUIRED! But if we want our students to get the most out of the books they read, to engage and make meaning from text, to move from a “re-tell” into a “re-think”, they need US to show them how!
In this two part webinar series, Adrienne will walk you through steps to set up an interactive and engaging whole class novel study NOW in preparation for Literature Circles in SPRING. She will show you how to model and integrate the key concepts of Reading Power into your novel study and introduce several ways to support rich class discussions and deep thinking. This series includes many lesson ideas, student reproducibles, and, of course, Adrienne’s recommendations of the best in middle grade novels!

Literacy Anchors - For Primary Teachers | Session 2
2023-02-08 15:30 - 17:30 UTC | Webinar – Zoom

Novel Studies & Literature Circles - For Intermediate Teachers | Session 1
2023-01-25 15:30 - 17:30 UTC | Webinar – Zoom

Literacy Anchors - For Primary Teachers | Session 1
2023-01-18 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Vancouver) | Webinar – Zoom
What are the components of a responsive literacy program? How do we look at students’ reading and writing to guide our instruction?
As we near mid-year, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate our literacy goals and make appropriate changes to ensure we are supporting every students’ literacy journey!
This two-part series will help Primary teachers use your Reading and Writing goals to help guide and ground your literacy instruction and show you how to use assessment effectively to target your instruction. These sessions will be filled with practical tips, lessons, assessment templates, student reproducibles, and of course, Adrienne’s favorite reading and writing ANCHOR BOOKS!
DETAILS:
Session 1: January 18th at 3:30-5:30 PST – Focus on WRITING GOALS Session 2: February 8th at 3:30-5:30 PST – Focus on READING GOALS
COST: $70.00 per person plus tax (price includes both sessions, slides and handouts)
NOTE: Please plan to attend the sessions virtually on the scheduled dates.
