ORA ANNUAL STATE CONFERENCE


Handouts of the ORA Annual Conference
held February 4-5, 2011


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

Speakers listed alphabetically by last name

President René Dernbach
Opening Session PowerPoint Presentation: This is Your Life

 

Connie Greenlee and Diane Kinion

A Novel Approach to Writing: How To Get Your Students To Write a Novel in a Month
click here for link

 

Brad Herzog

What's the Big Idea?  download

 

Larry Lewin

Differentiation Without Guilt (am) download

 

Differentiation: The Next Level (pm) download

 

Virginia Lockwood

Cultivation Comfort in Inquiry: A Close Look at Teaching Higher Level Thinking and Growing Critical Readers of Nonfiction Texts  download

 

Defining High Quality Reading: A Close Look at the Power of Critical Literacy and Unanswerable Questions to Transform Read Alouds and Ultimately Reading Lives - main packet  download

 

Defining High Quality Reading: A Close Look at the Power of Critical Literacy and Unanswerable Questions to Transform Read Alouds and Ultimately Reading Lives - supplement   download

 

Maryann Manning

Reading Assessment: A Necessity But What? (Friday Featured)  download

 

Reclaiming Good Literacy Practices (Saturday keynote)  download

 

Della Perez

Hands-On Vocabulary Strategies for English Language Learners! (am) download

Vocabulary Strategies for K-8 English Language Learners (pm)   download

Shane Templeton
Generative Vocabulary Instruction, Grades 3-12: Morphology, Cognates, and Classical Roots (am)  download

Revolutionizing Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction: Teaching Words and Teaching About Words (pm) coming soon

Russ Walsh
The Special Challenge of Non-Fiction Reading: Strategies, Structures and Short Texts  download

Susan Young
Building Vocabulary in a Caring Environment  download