The Emerald Empire Reading Council and The Oregon Writing Project are Proud to Present The 9th Annual Literacy Conference

When: October 10, 2008 - 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
>click here for UO credit requirements<

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 the two morning time periods and 6 sessions in the afternoon session with choices at each grade level. There will be sessions on reading, writing, art and literature, using literature in the classroom, understanding RTI, using technology, and much, much more! We have quite a number of sessions for secondary teachers including a 2-session workshop on motivating reluctant readers.

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 3rd.
Late and on-site registration is an added $5.

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

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. >click here for UO credit requirements<
Cost for credit is $56 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.

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

Session A1 (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 small group 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 find out how knowing each child as an individual reader and writer can enhance your classroom teaching!

Session A2 (Grades K-5) Intentional Literature: Meeting the Standards with Teacher-Choice Literature - Shari Furtwangler
Too often curriculum is mistaken for standards. What many educators (and central office folks who insist on "fidelity") don't realize is that curriculum in Oregon is dictated by the Oregon State Standards, not by the district purchased curriculum. This session will focus on how to teach the Standards while still using authentic literature. Learn how to be intentional about selections and how to use them to teach critical strategies.

Session A3 (Grades 2-5) "A Dream Come True?"  - Marlene Iversen
Dreaming of a new twist to integrate reading, writing, and art? Marlene has dreamed up activities that incorporate children's literature, poetry, social studies, and art history. End the nightmare of planning. Join her for some ready-to-use ideas and lessons.

Session A4 (Grades 4-12) Listen, Scribble, Write - Mindy Mendenhall
Join Mindy to experience an exciting, interactive lesson that incorporates music and art to inspire poetry—a kinesthetic approach that will have even your most reluctant students motivated to write. This hands-on aexperience will motivate students to experiment with words and poetry.

Session A5 (Grades 4-12) Motivation: Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Bette Shoemaker and Paul Weill
Are you teaching grades 4 to 12 and have students who are not motivated to read? Have you decided it's easier to just cover the information instead of asking students to read it? If so, this class is for you. You will learn motivation strategies that can be used immediately in your classroom. You will also be introduced to the latest research on motication. This fun and interactive workshop is intended for any teacher who wants to help his/her students become actively engaged in reading. All participants will receive a comprehensive set of handouts that contain a variety of ready-to-use strategies and activities. Note: This is a two-session workshop from 8:30 - 12:00.

Session A6 (Grades 6-8) Making the True Stuff Sound Like Fun—the Use of Autobiography in the Classroom - Pam Schmieding
?Do your eyes glaze over when someone mentions autobiography? Mine do, or did. Let me show you how to take snapshots, or life's vignettes, from your life history and add convincing voice and credibility to each new story, even the one where the leprechauns and fairy folk came out to play...really. An additional use of autobiography will be demonstrated using a poem format, the "I Am From" poem, which can be used for many different purposes. Both activities make use of autobiography, neither involves yawning.

Session A7 (All) Using Web 2.0 Tool to Increase Literacy - Marilyn Williams
?Web 2.0 tools are free, available 24/7 and appropriate for students from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. During this workshop we'll explore a wide variety of these tools including blogs, wikis, VoiceThread, podcasting, del.icio.us, slideshare, TeacherTube, and more. If you have a laptop, please bring it as you'll want to bookmark these fabulous sites. You'll find that incorporating these tools into your curriculum will increase student motivation, engagement and learning.

Session B - 10:30-12:00

Session B1 (Grades K-2) Radiant, Remarkable, Robust Read Alouds - Nanci Strickland
?Join Nanci for a sampling of picture books just right for sharing in your classrooms. Some are the latest, some tried and true, but all will be great additions teaching and read-aloud repertoire. Participants will receive a bibliography.

Session B2 (Grades K-5) Response to Intervention: Basics and Beyond - Sandy Coffin
?RTI is the mandated process for documenting learning disability, the most common special ed “diagnosis.” Come find out more about this process and its implications for your classroom.

Session B3 (Grades K-5) Letter Writing in This Tech Age of Emails, My Space, Face Book, and Podcasting - Judy Davies
?Help your students experience the joy of purposeful writing and the reading of real letters from family and friends– and yes, pen pals, too. Incorporates diversity, geography, and language arts. Life is all about relationships and communication. What better way to “get in touch and stay in touch” than by writing letters on old-fashioned stationery?

Session B4 (Grades 3-8) Revision Matters, But How Do You Convince Them? - Karen Antikajian
?Help your students understand that there are many ways to say the same thing: some fit the purpose and audience better tha others, some involve the reader better than others, and some sound better than others. Students need to be able to express themselves in a variety of ways so they will be able to make choices for a final version. We will explore a number of strategies for motivating students to revise and various ways to help them improve their writing—especially the traits of word choice, sentence fluency and conventions.

Session B5 (Grades 4-12) Motivation: Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Bette Shoemaker and Paul Weill
This is a continuation of Session A-5

Session B6 (Grades 5-10) Using "Comic Life" to Teach Reading and Writing- Sandra Eperson
?Sandra Eperson will share a few ways to use the computer program Comic Life. This program is readily available and inexpensive. Having been a teacher for twenty years, Sandra has been using technology for most of her career. Much of her use of technology has been with a classroom full of students and one or two computers. Her use of Comic Life has been both with a class of students and one computer, as well as in a computer lab setting. Sandra has practical ideas for sharing a photo bank and saving data with and without a network.

Session B7 (Grades 6-12) Using Graphic Organizers - Yvonne Fasond, Ph.D.
?Do your students learn best by listening, reading, seeing, doing -- or by a combination of methods? Students learn in a variety of ways, so you can boost student comprehension and memory by using graphic organizers to enhance your teaching. Come to this session to learn how to use STRAP, Tip of the Iceberg, Cartoon creation, Open Mind, Venn Diagram, and other visual ideas. You'll leave with new ideas and a complete graphics packet.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Session C - 1:15-2:45

Session C1 (Grades K-2) Jump Into Writing Workshop in Your Primary Classroom - Bette Shoemaker
?Learn the steps in using writing workshop and how effective it can be for young students. Conduct a close study on a particular genré of writing. Explore how to incorporate mentor texts (your favorite picture books) into your writing workshop. Get specific tools to apply in your K-2 classroom and have fun exploring a writing lesson that you can use in your classroom right away.

Session C2 (Grades K-5) A Look at the New Patricia Gallagher Award Nominees - Karen Antikajian
?Learn about the five books nominated for ORA’s Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award for 2009 and how you can use these books and related books in your classroom. The nominated books are available for checkout from EERC. Participants will receive a LARGE packet of ideas and activities to use with these and related books. Many of the activities work well with any book.

Session C3 (Grades 3-5) Preparing for Battle! Grades 3-5 Battle of the Books - Gina Wilde
Have your students gotten to experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat? Come to this session to learn about the area's fastest growing reading craze! Participants will preview this year's titles, which feature Oregon authors, and will also receive a packet of related activities and suggestions for coaching a team. Several lucky session attendees will also win free books to get them started!!

Session C4 (Grades 3-8) Writing for Real - Robert Young
?Nonfiction is the real thing! Writing it is essential to the success of students on state assessments and, more importantly, in life. This hands-on session will focus on the wonderful world of nonfiction and will include easy-to-use activities that motivate students of all abilities and help connect them to the real world.

Session C5 (Grades 6-12) Reading Strategies for the Content Areas: How to Help Middle and High School Students Get the Text - Paul Weill
?Have you given up making reading assignments? Do you have students who don’t read the assignment or who read the assignment but can’t remember or don’t understand what they have read? If so, then this workshop is for you. You will learn simple yet engaging strategies to help your students read it and get it. This fun and interactive workshop is intended for middle and high school teachers who want to help their students better understand the texts they read. Participants will receive a comprehensive set of handouts with ready-to-use strategies and activities.

Session C6 (Grades 6-12) Writing So Good the Dog Won't Eat It: 12 Sentence Patterns to Pump Up Prose - Phyllis Nissila
?Author and teacher Phyllis Nissila will present humor-based exercises from her book-in-progress designed for 6th-12th grade basic grammar classes to help students learn and incorporate a variety of sentence patterns into their writing projects. Attendees will sample patterns such as “Add a Little Extra—Use Appositive Phrases,” “Over, Under, Sideways, Down—Use Prepositional Phrases,” and “Double the Structure, Double the Fun—Use Parallelism.”

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 Ninth Annual Literacy Conference

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Send registration form with a check made out to EERC to:
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PO Box 259, Cheshire, OR 97419

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