17th Annual

Early Literacy and Illinois Reading Recovery®

Conference

January 17-18, 2008 - Renaissance Schaumburg 

HANDOUTS

 

Catherine Compton-Lilly -- Serving African American Students in Reading Recovery: Considerations and Concerns

     Five Things Coaches Do
Catherine Compton-Lilly -- Talking About Diversity with Reading Recovery Colleagues in New Zealand, National-Louis University/Chicago Public Schools
     Poetry Presentation
Judith Neal -- 'Mining' the Gold of Running Records- Project Director, National-Louis University/Chicago Public Schools

PANEL --
Building Capacity in Literacy Leadership: Broader Implications of Reading Recovery Implementation
  Assistant Professor, National-Louis University
     Using Data to Inform Instruction in a Primary K-2 School
Sally Forbes -- Sequence: the Order in which the Brain Attends to Information    Debra Gurvitz - Assistant Professor, National-Louis University

 

Kristin Lems -- How the Spelling of Spanish-ELL Can Help Teachers Plan Instruction is Reading Recovery?
     Charleen Cain -  Teacher Leader, Northern Illinois Reading Recovery Consortium

Lesley Morrow-Friday Keynote -- Exemplary Practice in Early LiteracySpecial Ed Students are Emerging Readers Too: How to Make it Happen
     Charleen Cain -  Teacher Leader, Northern Illinois Reading Recovery Consortium
Gail Saunders-Smith -- Transitional Guided Reading: What is it, How to do it, and Why   Visual Literacy Through Picture Books
     Junko Yokota - Professor, National-Louis University
     Notable Latino-Themed Children's Literature in the K-3 Classroom
     Ruth Quiroa - Assistant Professor, Reading and Language, National-Louis University
     Bibliography for Notable Latino-Themed Children's Lit in the K-3 Classroom
     Ruth Quiroa - Assistant Professor, Reading and Language, National-Louis University

    Letters, Words, and Brain Links...Oh My!
    Joelle Schlesinger -  Teacher Leader, Plainfield Consortium
     Janet Goggins - RR Teacher/Reading Specialist & Staff Developer, Plainfield District
     Ann Smelser - RR & Kindergarten Teacher, Plainfield District

     KEYNOTE - It Doesn't Get Any Better: The Real Cost of Literacy Failure
     Julia Douëtil - United Kingdom Trainer and National Coordinator, Univ of London
     Change Over Time in Writing: Increasing Language Repertoire
     Diane DeFord - Professor, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina
     Coaching: Leading Teachers from Behind (or Side-by-Side)
     Diane DeFord - Professor, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina
     Learning From the Best: What Makes a Great Literacy Teacher?
     Janice Farmer-Hailey - CEO, K-4 Initiatives, NSW Dept of Ed and Training, Australia

 

 
 
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