2009 National Reading Recovery &
K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference
Program Updates
New Concurrent Session
Grades K-2 Classroom
Literacy
Keys to Effective
Small Group Intervention
Monday, February 9, 3:00
pm-4:30 pm
Irene Fountas, professor, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Gay Su Pinnell,
professor emeritus, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
The presenters describe
how to plan and implement successful small group interventions. Learn
teaching procedures that are effectively used with groups, essential
routines, and the role of texts.
Session Cancellations
Grades 3-6 Classroom Literacy
Powerful Ways to Use the Writer's Notebook
From Elkhart Community Schools, Elkhart, IN:
Chris Baldridge and Leanne Geary, district
literacy facilitators
Teaching the Art and
Science of Poetry
Carol Worst, district intermediate literacy
coordinator, Newark City Schools, Newark, OH
Session Time Changes
Grades
K-6 Classroom Literacy
From Theory to Practice:
Differentiating Literacy Instruction for Second Language Learners
Kathy Escamilla,
professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Monday, February 9 - Time changed
from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Creating Classroom Cultures of
Thinking and Understanding
Debbie Miller,
author, Littleton, CO
Monday, February 9 - Time changed
from 3:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Preconference Institute
Revision
Searching Questions
Saturday, February 7,
2009, 9:00 am-3:30 pm
Ann Ballantyne,
Reading Recovery trainer, New York University, New York, NY
Emily Rodgers, Reading
Recovery trainer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Sinéad Harmey,
Reading Recovery teacher leader, Dublin West Education Centre, Dublin,
Ireland
Focus on searching as a
critical form of strategic activity initiated by the child to solve
problems in reading and writing. We will use Clay's Literacy
Lessons Designed for Individuals and videos of children's reading
and writing activity to think about how we can best support and foster
this active searching and problem-solving on the child's part.
Concurrent Session
Speaker Revisions
Literacy Coaching
The
Coaching-Intervention Connection
Tuesday, February 10,
10:30 am-noon
Lisa Puckett, K–5 literacy coach/intervention, Goshen Community
Schools, Goshen, IN
Grades K-6 Classroom
Literacy
Visual Literacy: Using
Images to Increase Comprehension
Monday, February 9,
1:00-2:30 pm
Diana Carry,
consultant, Vernon Hills, IL
Grades K-2 Classroom
Literacy
Effective Teaching
Decisions On the Spot
Monday, February 9,
8:30-10:00 am
From Loras College,
Dubuque, IA:
Ann McCaw, associate
professor, and Gail Yunk, assistant professor
From Dubuque
Community Schools, Dubuque, IA:
Liz Weber and Katie
Cleary, Title I reading teachers
Corrections/Changes to Speakers' Titles and Affiliations
Laurie Baker, Literacy Collaborative district
trainer, Indian River Central Schools, NY
Chrissy Cox, literacy coach, Quincy Public
Schools #172, Quincy, IL
Barbara Kiefer, Charlotte Huck professor of children’s literature, The
Ohio State University
Lesley Miller, clinical instructor, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN
Terri
Pike, Reading Recovery teacher leader, Obion County Schools, Union
City, TN
Cynthia
Rodríguez, Reading Recovery/Descubriendo la
Lectura trainer, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Sharon Smith, primary classroom teacher, Gwinnett
County Public Schools, GA
Elizabeth Wagner, literacy coach/interventionist, Odessa R7 Schools,
Odessa, MO
Judy Wallis, lecturer, University of Houston, Houston, TX
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