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Literacy For All Pre-Conference WorkshopsSunday, November 16, 2008 - 11:00 am–4:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops are intensive sessions on specific topics with experts in the field of literacy learning. Choose one of the following workshops designed to improve and extend the quality of your teaching. Take this opportunity to learn valuable strategies and techniques to use in your classroom. Pre-Conference Registration Fee: $165. Register for all three-days and save $45 with the 3-Day Package Deal! K-6 Pre-Conference Workshops K-6 Pre-Conference WorkshopsPC-1 - Featured SpeakersUsing the Continuum of Literacy Learning to Plan for and Assess Teaching and Learning (Grades K-6) Irene Fountas, Professor and Author, Lesley University, MA Gay Su Pinnell, Professor and Author, The Ohio State University The Continuum of Literacy Learning is a guide for literacy teachers and literacy coaches that specifies behaviors to notice, teach,and support at each grade level and each guided reading level A-Z. This will be a hands-on workshop in which participants will look at reading and writing to determine what students know and what they need to learn. Learn how to use this tool for planning and assessing children's reading and writing achievement. Participants will need to bring a copy of The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8 (Heinemann, 2007) to use in this session. PC-2 Understanding the Fluent Reader: Assessing and Teaching for Fluency (Grades 1-6) Mechelle Abney, Literacy Collaborative Trainer, Lesley University, MA This session will explore the characteristics that make for fluent reading. There will be opportunities for participants to assess fluency in a range of readers. We will also examine ways to teach for fluency within the reading workshop. Participants should bring the text Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8 (Fountas & Pinnell, 2006) to use in this session. PC-3 Coaching Adult Learners Effectively (K-8)
Julie Ahern, Elementary English Language Arts/Social Studies Chairperson, Connetquot Central School District, NY
Literacy coaches are quickly becoming a standard position in many of today’s public schools. Research demonstrates that teachers who receive continuous coaching in conjunction with professional development become more effective in their teaching practice faster than those who do not receive coaching. This session is designed to help literacy coaches think more deeply about their work with adult learners. Throughout this session participants will examine coaching language, develop possible coaching conversations based on videos of teaching, and reflect on their current practice to deepen their understandings of their role as literacy coaches. Participants will work to strengthen their current reflective coaching practice and will leave with applicable and practical language that they will be able to use in future coaching experiences. PC-4 Guided Writing (Grades 3-6) Kerry Crosby, Literacy Consultant, Amherst, MA Heather Morris, Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Helen Sisk, Literacy Collaborative District Trainer, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Guided Writing is a component of writing workshop that allows for small group work using focused, explicit instruction and authentic assessment. This workshop will explore how to teach writing effectively with a small group of children who have the same writing needs or interests. Whether addressing writer's craft, organization, or conventions, guided writing gives students the opportunity to practice in a more intimate setting, allowing them time to apply the lesson's focus immediately and to share with peers who are working on the same aspect in their writing. The workshop will explore the structure of a guided writing lesson, how to analyze student work to form guided writing groups, and how to use this small group instruction to provide both extra support and enrichment for writers of varying achievement levels in the classroom. The workshop will include videos of guided writing lessons and samples of student work. PC-5 Developing Readers, Writers, and Speakers through Interactive Read Aloud and Text Sets (Grades K-2) Cindy Downend, Primary Literacy Trainer, Lesley University, MA Kathy Ha, Primary Literacy Trainer, Lesley University, MA Participants will actively engage in an in-depth exploration of the components of Interactive Read Aloud: text selection, opening moves, and intentional conversation. Text sets will be developed for use during interactive read-aloud and the use of these text sets as mentor texts in writing workshop will be investigated. PC-6 Improving Student Achievement in Leveled Literacy Intervention: An Institute for Updating Trained LLI Teachers (Grades K-2) Linda Garbus, LLI Trainer and Former Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Diane Powell, Assistant Director, Literacy Collaborative Primary, Lesley University, MA This institute for trained Leveled Literacy Intervention teachers is designed to help examine critical areas of strategic processing, such as self-monitoring, self-correcting, solving words, fluency, and using different sources of information. In addition, the presenters will spend time sharing new updates and new resources [ back to top ] Middle School Pre-Conference WorkshopsPC-7 - Featured SpeakerAdolescent Literacy: From Life and For Life (Grades 6 and up) Linda Rief, Middle School Teacher, Durham Public Schools, NH If we want our students to be articulate, literate, thoughtful citizens of the world, we must teach them to be strong readers and writers who engage in learning for real reasons for a real audience. Using Writers-Readers Notebooks to find, develop, and extend their thinking, participants will look at specific strategies (quickwrites, written conversations, shared reading, and storyboarding) that help students find, craft, revise, and evaluate writing to read, and reading to write-from life, and for life. PC-8 - Featured Speaker Increase Student Engagement, Motivation, and Memory Using RAD Strategies (Grades 4-8) Dr. Judy Willis, MD, Neurologist, and Middle School Teacher, Santa Barbara Public Schools, CA After reviewing current research about how information is processes by the brain to become knowledge, Dr. Willis will describe the teaching strategies that reduce stressors and build positive motivation, engagement, and long-term memory. There will be description of techniques to use to facilitate the passage of information through the brain's filters into neural networks to improve students' engagement, memory, retention, higher thinking, reading fluency, and comprehension. [ back to top ] Reading Recovery Pre-Conference WorkshopsPC-9 - Featured Speaker Noticing and Responding to Students' Writing Behavior Sharan Gibson, Reading Recovery Trainer, San Diego State University, CA This workshop will include "hands on" practice observing a student at work during the writing portion of lessons and learning how to notice and respond to the strategic behaviors used for writing. PC-10 - Featured Speaker Support in Early Reading: Teaching Hard for Early Gains Irene Huggins, Reading Recovery Trainer, Western Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery, Winnipeg, Manitoba A few children enter Reading Recovery with very low text reading levels and the task of the teacher is to understand how to provide the necessary support for the child to read texts successfully. Explore the Record of Oral Language, Finding a Readable Text and the ideas in chapter 1 of Literacy Lessons Part 2 to work with examples of how the teacher might support early text reading. [ back to top ]
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