No time to teach social studies? No time to read during the school day? Then this workshop is for YOU! Throughout the day you will learn powerful strategies for using picture books to enhance reading practice and build background knowledge and vocabulary for elementary learners. Dr. Tammy Elser will demonstrate powerful one minute extensions to your regular read aloud routines that will support your students in building conceptual understandings making new content, facts, and vocabulary “sticky.” Employing principles from cognitive science, you will explore ways to enhance students’ long-term memory and retrieval and determine short fast lists of facts – or as Tammy calls them, “sets of knowns” that behave like magnets for acquisition of new knowledge.

For more information, contact Martha Kohl, Montana Historical Society, mkohl@mt.gov or 406-444-4740.