Trina's area of expertise includes developing effective reading and writing workshops in elementary school classrooms. As a professional development provider she has served as a Regional Literacy Coach in South Carolina, taught courses at the University of South Carolina and Winthrop University, and provided professional development workshops and study groups. Trina is committed to education because of her desire to nurture enthusiastic readers and writers. When she can help build the knowledge base of teachers, she knows she has made a difference in the lives of their students.
View Trina Strickland Randle's Resume/Vita, Publications and Workshops.
Level: K-5
Teaching for Comprehension Literature Circles Small Group Guided Reading Making Classroom Writing Authentic Shared Reading Spelling Instruction Nonfiction Writing Phonemic Awareness/Phonics Integration-Social Studies or Science Teaching Standardized Testing as a Genre Literacy Coaches Teaching Writing Assessment
Literacy Coaches Teaching Writing
My Students Are Writing, Now What Do I Do?
Audience: Elementary school teachers, administrators, literacy coaches.
Purpose of Workshop: This session is designed for teachers who have Writing Workshops or writing activities going on in the classroom already, but want to know how to maintain the writing energy through thoughtful planning. The focus will be on the multiple genre possibilities for study.
Spelling Instruction
This session will equip teachers with strategies to analyze students’ developmental spelling stages. After a thorough look into why students spell the way they do, teachers will learn about ways to instruct students at each developmental stage.
View Trina's listing of children's literature for spelling.
Teaching Standardized Testing as a Genre
This session will engage teachers in thinking through reading and writing testing strategies. Teachers will get ideas for how to teach about standardized testing as a writing unit of study.
Literacy Coaches Teaching Writing
This highly-interactive session will feature practices that support the teaching of writing during study groups. Participants will explore the writing process together by actually engaging in a Writer’s Workshop. Bring a Writer’s Notebook and prepare to learn how to teach writing by writing.