2009 National Reading Recovery & K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference

Program Updates
 

Session Cancellations

Powerful Ways to Use the Writer's Notebook (Grades 3-6 Classroom Literacy)

Chris Baldridge, district literacy facilitator, Elkhart Community Schools, Elkhart, IN

Teaching for a Powerful Impact (Reading Recovery)

Janet Bufalino, Reading Recovery trainer, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

Author Study in the Primary Classroom (Grades K-2 Classroom Literacy)

Julie Buhl, 1st-grade teacher, Western Wayne Elementary, Cambridge City, IN

Connecting Classrooms across Continents (Grades K-6 Classroom Literacy)

Julieanne Hanna, literacy specialist, American Collegiate Institute, Izmir, Turkey

Teaching Centers for Early Literacy Success (Grades K-2 Classroom Literacy)

Valerie Ritchie, national literacy consultant, Oxnard, CA
 

Teaching the Art and Science of Poetry (Grades 3-6 Classroom Literacy)

Carol Worst, district intermediate literacy coordinator, Newark City Schools, Newark, OH

Session Day and Time Changes

Grades K-6 Classroom Literacy

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

Reading Strategically: Nonfiction Reading

Kathleen Miller, principal, Mundelein District 75, Mundelein, IL

New day and time: Monday, February 9, 8:30 am

Old day and time: Sunday, February 8, 3:30 pm

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

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.

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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