The Emerald Empire Reading Council and The Oregon Writing Project are Proud to Present The 8th Annual Literacy Conference

When: October 12, 2007 - Statewide Inservice Day

Registration and Continental Breakfast - 8:00 - 8:30
Morning Sessions: 8:30-10:00 and 10:30-12:00
Lunch On Your Own - 12:00-1:15
Afternoon Sessions: 1:15-2:45 and 3:00-3:30
Meetings for credit participants: 8:10-8:30 and 3:30-4:10

Where: Willagillespie Elementary School- 1125 Willagillespie Rd., Eugene
The school is across Delta Highway from Valley River Center.

Choices: We are offering 7 sessions during each of three time periods with choices at each grade level. There will be sessions on reading, writing, art and literature, math and literature, using literature in the classroom, poetry, working with reluctant readers, and much, much more! We have quite a number of sessions for secondary teachers including an all-day session featuring a year-long writing curriculum.

CPDUs will be given. U of O credit available - see below.

Cost: EERC/ORA members: $35 (Morning only - $25)
Non Members: $60 (Morning only - $50)
Non-member price includes a one year membership in the Emerald Empire Reading Council AND The Oregon Reading Association.
Full-time students: $10 (Morning only - $5) For $35 students can attend AND get membership in IRA, ORA and EERC. They will also be able to attend the ORA State Conference in Portland for only $20!  (ORA members pay $150 and nonmembers pay $175)

Registration must be received by October 5th.
Late and on-site registration is an added $5.

To Register: Send registration form (and check made out to EERC) to:
by mail:
Karen Antikajian
PO Box 259
Cheshire, OR 97419

by courier:
Karen Antikajian
Lane ESD

Credit: One U of O graduate credit is available from the College of Education.
It requires attending full conference and completing follow-up discussion and practical project related to your classroom teaching. Dr. Nathanial Teich will meet with participants at 8:10 to see if you want to apply for credit. Details will be available then.
Cost for credit is $52 payable with a separate check to U of O (at the conference).

Questions: E-mail Karen (kantikajian@cvcable.com) or call Karen at 998-6584.

To learn more about presenters, click here.

MORNING SESSIONS
Session A - 8:30-10:00

Session A1 (Grades K-2) Using Themes and Picture Books to Enhance Your Curriculum - Marlene Iversen
?Have you ever ANTicipated using themes and picture books to enhance your curriculum? Weave art, science, social studies, reading, and writing together to encourage curiosity and creativity. This session will show you how by using the theme of ANTS and various picture books. The ideas and activities can be easily adapted to other themes. Participants will create samples of some of the activities.

Session A2 (Grades K-6) Successful Reading Celebrations - Gayla Clark
?Involve parents and other family members with their child's education. Invite them to a Readers Theater presentation and their children will astound them with their fluency, expression, love of reading and cuteness. Teachers get to talk to parents about the importance of reading with their children. Many sample scripts, program notes and organizational ideas will be provided. Audience participation will be required and fun.

Session A3 (Grades K-8) Tips and Techniques for Teaching Summarizing  - Anita Nott
Summarizing and note-taking provide students with tools for identifying and understanding the most important aspects of what they are learning. Activities, lesson plans, and helpful tips for teaching these two very important skills will be presented during this workshop. Participants will be engaged in several activities that can be used at any grade level and in any content area. Come expecting to have fun.

Session A4 (Grades 2-5) Seven Keys to Comprehension - Bette Shoemaker
Participants in this workshop will become familiar with specific thinking strategies used by proficient readers to increase their comprehension. In addition they will learn specific tools that can be used in their classrooms to teach these seven comprehension strategies.

Session A5 (Grades 3-8) Oh, No! Not Him! Reaching the Reluctant Reader - Emma Martin
Ever tried to teach reading or writing to a kid who just doesn’t want to participate? Let Emma help you learn how to work with reluctant students. Drawing on her years of classroom experience working with kids who have behavior challenges and other reluctant learners, Emma will help you gain insight into managing and motivating even your most challenging students.

Session A6 (Grades 6-12) I Started Out As a Child: Engaging Secondary Students in Reading - Yvonne Fasold
Engage students by using curiosity, concrete items, comprehension strategies, multiple intelligences, graphic organizers, visualization, and shared learning. We'll also learn some techniques for engaging boys and reluctant readers, as suggested in the book, Reading Don't Fix No Chevys by Michael Smith and Jeff Willhelm.

Session A7 (Grades 6-12) Introduction to Prisms: A Writing Curriculum - Paul Halupa
Do your students have trouble remembering what the writing traits are called and how to apply them to their writing? “A Program of Prisms,” a year-long writing curriculum developed by Paul, uses the alphabet as a simple mnemonic to create a basic framework for organizing the traits and many other writing techniques. He will demonstrate how everything ties together to support adolescent writers and help them find their voices. This curriculum has been adopted by several schools and districts, including Thurston HS. If you register for this session, YOU MUST ALSO REGISTER FOR SESSION B7. Paul will also offer a related session in the afternoon (C7) about grading and reducing the paper load.

Session B - 10:30-12:00

Session B1 (Grades K-2) Reading Recovery: Connections to the Classroom - Judy Davies
?In this session Judy Davies, Reading Recovery teacher, will explore connections between Marie Clay's Reading techniques and classroom practice. Discussion and activities will focus on the importance of running records and the information they provide, prompting for strategic processing, writing, and word work. Come to find out how knowing each child as an individual reader and writer can enhance your classroom teaching!

Session B2 (Grades K-5) Using Children's Literature Throughout the Curriculum - Shari Furtwangler
?In this session, participants will learn new and “well loved” children’s literature titles along with curricular connections. Participants will leave with a bibliography and ideas to use tomorrow in their classrooms.

Session B3 (Grades K-5) Books as a Window to the World - Margriet Ruurs
?Based on the book, My Librarian is a Camel, this session will show how you can tie social studies, world geography, and much more to one picture book. You will see the research process that goes into producing nonfiction as well as find ways to connect your students to projects such as a global bookmark exchange and a service learning project.

Session B4 (Grades K-5+) Discover Art Using Picture Books - Marlene Iversen
?Did you realize that some the same basic elements and principals of design that are used by great artists are also used by illustrators of favorite picture books? During this session we will explore some of these elements and principals with examples from picture books. This session is for K-5 but may be of interest to secondary teachers as well.

Session B5 (Grades 3-8) Put a Poem in Your Pocket - Bette Shoemaker
Poetry nurtures a love and appreciation for the sound and power of language. Poetry can help us see differently, understand ourselves and others, and validate our human experience. It enhances thinking skills, and promotes personal connections....  Come join us to receive tips on how to effectively teach poetry in the grade 3-8 classroom. Participants will be given several sources of great poetry to use with their students.

Session B6 (Grades 6-12) Telling Lives - Mike Thoele
?This session focuses on creating insightful profile or biographical pieces on other human beings. The presenter will share approaches to interviewing and writing, with emphasis on techniques and styles that have emerged in the modern era of literary nonfiction writing. The presentation will have a special emphasis on understanding people in the historical context of the times in which they have lived.

Session B7 (Grades 6-12) Continuing with Prisms: A Writing Curriculum - Paul Halupa
For a description of this session, see Session A6 above. Participants must be registered for A6 in order to register for this session.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Session C - 1:15-2:45

Session C1 (Grades K-3) Teaching Writing Traits Through Mentor Texts - Carole Sterry
Participants will learn how high quality children's literature can be used to help young children learn the traits of writing. Strategies will be provided for helping students develop skill with using the writing traits.

Session C2 (Grades K-5) From Heartstring to Funnybones, the Anatomy of a Story - Margriet Ruurs
Come to a fun and informative session about writing: from first idea to published pages. You will see how writers get inspired, how rewriting improves a story, how publishers work, how illustrators influence a story and more! There will be lots of ideas for using picture books in K-5 classrooms.

Session C3 (Grades 1-5) Using Literature to Enhance Math Learning - Shirley Murata
Make it real! Help students connect their understanding of math concepts to real life through rich children's literature. Participants will have a sampling of literature (old and new) and activities that support the essential math strands. A rubric to help identify quality math literature will also be introduced and shared.

Session C4 (Grades 3-8) Make Projects Motivating, Informative, and Fun! - Karen Antikajian
Help students get excited about their learning and show what they have learned by creating projects that give students many ways to showcase that information. Instructions, scoring guides, resources, and student samples will be shared for lots of different projects such as book talks, board games and VIP books.

Session C5 (Grades 3-12) Digital Storytelling - Ginny Hoke
?Digital storytelling provides students with an exciting new format to tell their stories; the possibilities for independent, small group, and whole class collaborative storytelling are unlimited. Join us to learn how to guide students as they craft and record narratives, collect still images and music, and, finally, edit their own short digital stories. See examples of student work and consider the implications for your own classroom. We will discuss how this exciting new storytelling medium can be used in our classrooms in educationally relevant and meaningful ways. You do not need to be a high tech user or an accomplished storyteller to attend.

Session C6 (Grades 6-12) Taking the Angst Out of (Literary) Analysis: a.k.a. What the Heck Does THAT Mean? - Phyllis Nissila
Participants will learn three tricks of the trade to encourage "close reading" of texts, especially literary texts, using a line-by-line "treasure hunt" method for poetry, and a "T&T (Term and Technique) hunt" for other genres—techniques especially helpful for students who struggle with the kind of in-depth analysis involved in literature, and for those just beginning to "read closely".

Session C7 (Grades 6-12) Concluding Tips and Techniques for Prisms - Paul Halupa
This session will focus on organizational techniques to make your writing sessions run smoothly, help students evaluate their own pieces of writing, and help you reduce and manage your paper load. Questions about “A Program of Prisms” will be addressed.

Final Session - 3:00 - 3:30
All Participants - Meet in the library for wrap-up, lots more door prizes, and Professional Development Certificates.

3:30-4:10 - Credit participants meet with Nathanial Teich to finalize extended projects and set due dates.

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EERC/OWP Eighth Annual Literacy Conference

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