KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS:
Friday, February 8th - 8:15 - 9:30 -
Multnomah/Holladay Room
Title:
"The Power of Pleasure Reading"
Presenter: Dr.
Linda Gambrell, Consultant, Distinquished Professor of Education at Clemson University and Past President of IRA
This session will focus on the importance of supporting students in developing the habit of reading. Motivational theory and research will provide the backdrop for classroom snapshots that show how teachers can effectively promote pleasure reading.
International Reading Association Welcome by Maryann Manning
Presentation of ORA Lifetime Literacy Award
Saturday,
February 9th - 8:15 - 9:30 - Multnomah/Holladay
Room
Title: "The Heart of Comprehension: It's All About Making Meaning"
Presenter: Dr. Susan Zimmerman, Internationally-known speaker and co-author of 7 Keys to Comprehension and Mosaic of Thought.
If we want literate students, reading must be a joyful adventure, not a chore. Reading is an “action sport” and there are specific, research-based strategies that make reading come alive and are critical to understanding.
IRA Welcome by Maryann Manning
Presentation of IRA/ORA Exemplary Reading Award
LUNCHEON
SPEAKERS:
Friday,
February 8th - 12:30 - 2:00 -
Multnomah/Holladay Room
Lunch will
be Columbia River Gorge Salad ~ Crisp Greens with Oven-Fried Chicken. Served with Bakery Fresh Rolls and Butter. Dessert of brownies and cookies
Title: "Writing Alphabet of Dreams"
Presenter: Susan Fletcher, Author of The Dragon Chronicles series, Alphabet of Dreams, Shadow Spinner, and more
A power point show-and-tell about Susan’s five-year odyssey to write this book, including: why she had to go to Iran and what she found there; flying over Mt. Hood to ride a donkey; and the camels of Moab (Utah). Alphabet of Dreams is a work of imagination, but Susan had to go beyond imagination—beyond anything she could have conceived or planned out beforehand—to find the heart of the novel.
Saturday,
February 9th - 12:30 - 2:00 -
Multnomah/Holladay Room
Lunch will
be Turkey Cranberry Croissant Sandwich, Dilled Redskin Potato Salad and Fresh Seasonal Fruit. Dessert of brownies and cookies.
Title: "Tracing the Lines: Introducing a Practical, writing-based Approach to Exploring the Landscape of Creativity"
Presenter: Michael Hoeye, Author of the award-winning Hermux Tantamoq mysteries.
What elements of our personal histories shape our creative lives? How do we find them, explore them and use them to increase and improve our creative output?
FEATURED
SPEAKERS:
Friday, February 8th - 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Title: "Vocabulary at the Center"
Presenter: Amy Benjamin, National Consultant and Author
Willamette Ballroom
All Levels
Recent research strongly supports the need for both explicit and implicit vocabulary instruction. Yet, traditional ways of teaching vocabulary through lists of unrelated words and worksheets that call for shallow responses do not lead to lasting growth. Amy Benjamin will describe the features of an effective vocabulary instruction model that connects students to their academic reading in all subjects and strengthens their word-learning skills.
Title: "Why Read-Aloud is Such an Important Teaching Tool in the Writing Workshop"
Presenter: Katie Wood Ray, National Consultant and Well-known Author
Pacific Northwest Ballroom
All levels
When writers hear texts read aloud, they come to understand what good writing sounds like and how it looks on the page to make it sound that way. And as sound is a very important revision tool, read aloud is a very important teaching tool. Katie will demonstrate the myriad teaching possibilities that exist when teachers read aloud well and often to their students.
Title: "Revolutionizing Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction: Teaching Words and Teaching About Words"
Presenter: Dr. Shane Templeton, Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies at University of Nevada, Reno
Cascade Ballroom
All levels
We will explore the most effective and engaging strategies and activities to help students learn, read, and write words across all subject areas. These strategies and activities include word-specific instruction as well as instruction in helping students learn about words–those word-formation processes in English that will help them learn, remember, and use tens of thousands of words as they move through the grades.
Saturday,
February 9th - 2:15 - 3:30
Title: "Content Comprehension"
Presenter: Brad Buhrow, Co-author of Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies: English Language Learners Discover Their World Through Inquiry.
Willamette Ballroom
All Levels
Science and social studies curriculum provide exciting and interesting topics to advance our students' conceptual knowledge and curiosity about their world. Identifying and naming enduring understandings offer rationale and place us on a pathway to plan units of study. This presentation will demonstrate how the gradual release of responsibility framework, comprehension instruction, thinking routines and informational literacy are incorporated throughout the day and over the course of the year. Student artifacts will reveal how to begin and continue this process.
Title: "Reading Mindfully: Cultivating Awareness as We Puzzle Through Text"
Presenters: Chryse Hutchins, Co-author of 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!
Cascade
Ballroom
All Levels
Many readers patiently wait for us to pull them through stories, but when left alone, fail to build meaning on their own. They lack internal monitoring skills to get themselves back on track when comprehension is a snag. Chryse will share instructional practices to help students independently recognize when reading veers off course and take steps to get back on the road to understanding.
Title: "Reach Every Learner by Differentiating Reading Instruction"
Presenter: Laura Robb, Author, Literacy Coach, and Teacher Trainer
Pacific Northwest Ballroom
All Levels
In this hands-on workshop, Laura will show participants how to meet the instructional needs of their students with differentiated whole-class instruction. First, participants will experience ways to model strategies and issues using read alouds, the common text in the differentiated classroom. Next, participants will each read a different text, then discuss these different texts with a partner using high level thinking strategies and journal writing.
