ORA ANNUAL STATE CONFERENCE

Handouts of the 2009 Conference

(If presenters have agreed to post them, they will be posted as they are received.
Sessions are listed alphabetically by presenter's last name.)

Keynote and Featured Speakers

Amy Benjamin: Featured Speaker
Vocabulary at the Center    download handouts from featured presentation

But I'm Not a Reading Teacher    download handouts from featured presentation

Brad Buhrow: Featured Speaker
Content Comprehension     download handouts from featured presentation

Linda Gambrell: Keynote Speaker
The Power of Pleasure Reading    download handouts from keynote presentation

Teaching Retelling     download handouts from small group session

Chryse Hutchins, Featured Speaker
Reading Mindfully: Cultivating Awareness as We Puzzle Through Text
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Connecting Reading and Writing Under the Umbrella of Comprehension Instruction   download handouts from small group session

Katie Wood Ray: Featured Speaker
On the Importance of Making Books in Primary Writing Workshops    
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Susan Zimmermann: Keynote Speaker
The Heart of Comprehension: It's All About Making Meaning
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Mosaic of Thought: What is Essential in Teaching Comprehension
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Luncheon Speakers

Susan Fletcher: Friday's Luncheon Author
download interview from the Fall 2008 ORAcle
What Happens Next
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Please visit their websites for more information
www.susanfletcher.com
(Find out 10 Random but Cool Things Susan Learned while Writing Alphabet of Dreams and Shadow Spinner)

Michael Hoeye: Saturday Luncheon Author
www.hermux.com
A link to Michael Hoeye's new website will be available soon.

Small Group Sessions

Allen Evans, Eastern Oregon University
Reaching New Heights with Global Notable Books
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Shari Furtwangler, Springfield School District
Intentional Literature: Meeting the Standards with Teacher-Choice Literature: Too Often Curriculum is Mistaken for Standards
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Carol Lauritzen, Eastern Oregon University
Word Sorting: Why and How
for handouts visit this link: www.eou.edu/ed/ConferencePresentations.html

Diantha Mollahan, Greater Albany School District
Songbooks: Fluency Through Rhyme, Repetition and Rhythm
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Julie Rossi and Rea Snyder, Southern Oregon ESD
Moving English Language Learners Up the Literacy Ladder
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download Systematic Vocabulary Instruction

Robert Young, Children's and YA Author  www.realwriting.us
Writing for Real
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