Thursday 10:00 presentations:
1. Title I meeting: Thursday: 10:00 session Room: 158
2. Presentation Title Summarizing Expository Text Using Technology to
Increase Comprehension in the Content Areas
Name Dr. Janet Kehe and Dr. Gina Kuker
kehej@uiu.edu
kukerg@uiu.edu
ROOM: 167-171 Thursday, 10:00
This session uses various technologies to write summaries to improve
the comprehension skills of students. Using examples in various textbooks,
participants will examine the organizational patterns of text structure,
including description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and
solution, and sequence. Current use of Before-During-After Reading
strategies will help teachers apply the appropriate reading strategies to assist
students in understanding content areas as teachers integrate the Common
Core
3. David Schwartz extra presentation:
Thursday- 10:00 Room: 175-179
Nature Books Are A Natural
Literature, science and math can come together in nature books such
as those that David has written, found in two series ("Look Once,
Look Again" and "Life Cycles"). While projecting magnificent
photographs and presenting fascinating facts about animals and
plants, David shows how any nature book can be a wonderful
medium for integrating many areas of the curriculum.
4. Daily Five presentation: Thursday 10:00 Room: 179
The Hubbard-Radcliffe School District will bring their K-5 teachers to present on:
Are you trying to figure out how to implement the Daily
5/CAFÉ menu into your school using the collaboration of all
staff? The Hubbard-Radcliffe teachers will share how they
are implementing this program in their K-5 building with
Title and Special Education staff to support all students
within the classroom setting. From mini-lessons to
schedules and conferring to small groups they will share
how this differentiated program could work for you.
When
thinking about elements of effective instruction and using
all the resources in your building you will leave with
ideas to collaborate with all staff to improve student
learning and quality of instruction.
Audience: E
5. Diane Sanderson
dsanderson@recordedbooks.com
School Consultant
Plugged-in to Independent Reading: How to Start Strong – How to Stay Strong
(Thursday) Room: 299
Time: 10:00
I have students who love to read, who hate to read, who struggle to read and who have
made a conscious choice not to read. How do I engage them in Independent Reading?
What supports do they need? Should I use precious class time for students’ Independent
Reading? How do I hold their interest across the school year? Reading volume directly
correlates to reading achievement. How do I increase reading volume with these diverse
learners?
6.
Text mapping in the Content Area
Sharon Williamson, Deb Price, Laurie Wyatt, Kelli Egan-Mennen
williams@se-polk.k12.ia.us
Thursday, Room: 154
Time: 10:00
Text mapping is a pre-reading technique that asks students to
highlight the important text features in a content area textbook.
During this presentation, the participants will learn how to
highlight the text so their students can see the relationship between
text organization, text structure, and comprehension of the
material. This connection will ultimately increase the
comprehension of the material for all students in the classroom.
7.
Presentation Title: Wonderful Words
Presenter’s Name: Kate Lerseth
kate.lerseth@simpson.edu
Room: 275
Thursday: 10:00
This session will show several strategies to help enhance vocabulary
building in the classroom. Shades of meaning, discussion tools, as well as
many more will be shared. Participants will receive many resources to help
aid in vocabulary development in the classroom, computer lab, and at
home.
3. Audience (Please check all that apply) ~ Preschool ~ Elementary ~ Title I
8. Presenter:Diane Merkel, Med.
Using Manipulatives to Teach Comprehension
Room: 160
Thursday: 10:00
Manipulatives have been used to teach phonological awareness, phonics, and other
components of reading. The presenter will model techniques and show videos of students using
manipulatives to make connections, categorize their connections, and make inferences.
Participants will leave with handouts of strategies to use in the classroom.
9. Budget Hearing meeting in the lounge area.
Thursday at 1:15
1. Thursday Room: 160 1:15
W.Christine.Rauscher@iowa.gov
This session will focus on the implications for curriculum, instruction, and
assessment of the adoption by Iowa of the Common Core State Standards to
become the Iowa Core. The issue of text complexity will be discussed along with
other considerations which schools will need to address.
Audience: ALL
2. New Product Manager Sara Tarpley
sara.tarpley@cengage.com
Room: 299 Thursday 1:15
Preparing today’s students to succeed in a digital economy requires a new
kind of teaching and learning. Gale, the world’s largest publisher and
aggregator of e-resources, is uniquely positioned to provide academic
support for all teachers and students in all subject areas. Gale’s e-resources
can be organized and customized into learning portals that meet academic
requirements but also leverage the power of technology to organize and
deliver content in multiple modalities that aid differentiated instruction.
3. Jerry Johns [jjohns@wpo.cso.niu.edu]
Thursday 1:15 Room: 275
Fluency: How We Went Wrong and Helpful Interventions
This session will explore four main areas where we went wrong with
fluency. A deep construct of fluency will be developed and a number of
helpful interventions will be offered.
4. Read Naturally’s Reading Assessments: The Foundation of an RTI
Model
Presenter: Carol Ann Kane carolakane@aol.com
Room: 167-171
Thursday: 1:15
Participants will learn how research-based assessments can be used
effectively and efficiently to support teachers, administrators, and specialist
in making assessment-driven decisions to place students in curricula and
intervention programs. A case study format will be used to learn how Read
Naturally’s benchmark, diagnostic and curriculum based progress
monitoring assessments can be used to administer the RTI model with
struggling readers.
5. The Secret to School Readiness: Early Literacy strategies that promote
school readiness and self-regulation
Presenters: Melissa Sambu, Jennifer Slipka, Kristin Allen, Debbie Gibson,
Jessica Parsons
kristin.allen@dmps.k12.ia.us
Thursday: 1:15
Room: 150-154
The Secret to School Readiness:
Early literacy strategies that promote school readiness and self regulation
Self-regulation enables children to engage in mindful, intentional, and thoughtful
behaviors. Research by Dr. Elena Bodrova indicates that many children start school
not ready to learn, not because they do not know their letters or numbers, but
because they lack the ability to regulate their social, emotional, and cognitive
behaviors. In this session you will leave with several developmentally appropriate
strategies to help build self regulation through literacy rich activities as well as a
free book for the first 20 attendee
6. Using the Digital Language Experience Approach with
English Language Learners
Room: 175-179 Thursday 1:15
David Salyer, Ph.D. and Sara Brauer
The digital language experience approach (D-LEA) is an evidence-based approach to
literacy instruction that is beneficial for English Language Learners and that integrates
technology. In this approach, students dictate a text based on a common experience using
PowerPoint software and digital photos. The dictated text is then used for reading,
building vocabulary, and other literacy instruction. Participants will learn how to
implement the D-LEA to meet the language and literacy needs of their ELL students.
7. Literacy for All: Essential Elements for Developing Skillful
Readers
Dr. Kathryn Hilliker khilliker@tcss.net
Thursday: Room: 197
1:15
The workshop will provide participants with a
conceptual framework for developing all students as
skillful readers. Based on the research of the Alabama
Reading Initiative, the framework includes five essential
elements: collaborative leadership, assessment,
professional development, intervention, and effective
instruction. Participants will apply their understanding
of the framework through engagement in activities
including the development of an individual and/or
school wide plan for the development of skillful readers
in their classrooms and/or schools.
Audience: E, TI, MS, A, G, SE
8. Thursday, 1:15 Room 158
Heidi Meyer: meyerhs@mflmarmac.k12.ia.us
Integrated Curriculum-reading and writing Across
content areas
Do you feel like the school day is spent bouncing from
subject to subject without continuity? An integrated
curriculum approach combines subject areas to give a
more connected learning experience for students.
Learn how you can combine reading, writing, social
studies, science, and technology to increase student
motivation, learning, and reading comprehension.
Audience: G, E, MS, A
Friday at 10:00
1. Friday
Room: 160 10:00
W.Christine.Rauscher@iowa.gov
Rauscher, W. Christine [ED]
This session will focus on the implications for curriculum, instruction, and
assessment of the adoption by Iowa of the Common Core State Standards to
become the Iowa Core. The issue of text complexity will be discussed along with
other considerations which schools will need to address.
Audience: ALL
Shiver Me Timbers: Using Literature to Teach Math
Presenter: Deb Mortensen dndmort@evertek.net
Friday: Room: 150-154
1:15
After teaching a number of years, this presenter has collected many books
that teach math concepts. At this session, you will see how she has
incorporated literature to teach math concepts in early childhood. A handout
will be provided that includes a math lesson plan, problem solving ideas and
a bibliography of books utilized. Be prepared to participate or you will have
to “ walk the plank”!
2.
3. One Minute Reader: A Motivating System to Improve Reading at Home
Presenter: Carol Ann Kane carolakane@aol.com
Friday: 10:00 Room: 167-171
This presentation describes the principles of One Minute Reader,
developed by Read Naturally, and to be used as an at home reading program
to reinforce and improve a child’s reading skills, by modeling, repeated
reading and progress monitoring. Schools use it as a checkout program for
students’ at home reading during the school year or it can be used by parents
to motivate their child to practice reading at home during the school year or
during the summer.
4. Getting Kids Reading
Presenter: Gary Johnston garcon1@q.com
Friday: Room: 158 10:00
Telling parents that children should read at home doesn’t work. About a
third of the children in elementary school read at home and the other twothirds never open a book. Stop telling and start helping parents make
reading happen at home. This session will show you how to get those kids
reading and the parents will love you!
5. Classroom Cartooning for the Artistically Challenged Teacher
Presenter: Mike Artell: Keynote speaker
Friday: Room: 175-179
10:00
Cartoons can be powerful literacy tools. They're kidfriendly and provide lots of opportunities for creativity,
sequential thinking,fact/fiction, point of view and
character development. In this session,
author/illustrator/TV cartoonist Mike Artell shares
techniques for using cartoons to develop the thinking,
writing, and drawing skills of even the most reluctant
learners. No artistic talent required, but bring a pencil
and your sense of humor.
Audience: All
6. Presentation Title From Memories to Marsupials: Moving Writing
from Narrative to non-Fiction
Friday: Room: 275
10:00
Presenter’s Name : Marcy N. Roan mroan@triad.rr.com
Brain research suggests the brain is a meaning-making, pattern-seeking organ. The
implication for learning is to support the brain’s need to make meaning from new
situations. To effectively connect the new with the known in our efforts to teach writing,
we have to explicitly create the pathway. From Memories to Marsupials gives you
practical classroom strategies to get your students to “write what they know” in order to
“write what they want to find out”!
7. Formative, Summative, Authentic and High-Stakes: We’re Talking Assessment
Diane Sanderson
(Friday) Room: 299
Time: 10:00
I need to track my students’ progress across the year’s instruction. How can I assess
today to inform my instruction for tomorrow? What tools can I use? From anecdotal
records and checklists to post-assessments and rubrics, let’s talk multiple points of
assessing student achievement for RTI and beyond.
8. Read-Tweet-Connect
Karla Duff kduff@oelwein.k12.ia.us
Friday: Room: 197
10:00
Blog, Twitter, Skype: These are words that are becoming more and
more common in classrooms as technology advances. This session
will share the "how to" and "why" of social networking between
authors, books and the classroom. See how these and other on-line
opportunities are used to enhance curriculum and enrich both the
students and the teachers' learning. Leave connected-no experience
needed!
Audience ALL
Friday 1:15
1. Friday 1:15 Room: 275
Jerry Johns
Differentiated Fluency Interventions for Six Reader Types
After proposing a definition of fluency that should characterize quality
instruction in classrooms, resource rooms, and RTI programs, six reader
types are presented. Several of these types are explored. Nine differentiated
fluency interventions are provided for one of the reader types.
2. Reluctant Readers in Classroom Literacy Activities
Presenter: Janalyn Meehan Rogus Email j-meehan1@neiu.edu
Friday: Room: 160 1:15
Three teachers use classroom research to answer questions about effective
practice with reluctant readers. This open discussion session will focus on
what the teachers tried, how they proceeded in their classrooms,
the results for the readers, and on the teacher’s insights into their own
teaching
3. Writing with Reptiles
Presenter: David Nieves reptilesupclose@cox.net
Friday Room: 197
Presenting to our Creative Writing/Poetry winners.
4. Presentation Title Making Reading Heavenly Cathy Angel
Email
mcangel@mediacombb.net
Friday: Room: 150-154 10:00
Making Reading Heavenly will focus on teaching beginning and
struggling readers. Spelling strategies will be modeled. Games and activities
will be demonstrated to help engage reluctant readers. “Sound moves” will
provide kinesthetic help for ADHD children. This program will also be an
awesome resource for ELL students!
5. Presentation Title: Writing Structure: Success for Struggling Readers
Presenters’ Name: Frances A. Steward, RDG?LA Professor and Diana L.
Goff, Assistant Professor and Field Experience Placement
Supervisor at WIU and Juanita Moller, Fullbright Scholar
and graduate student at WIU, from Nimimbia, Africa
FA-Steward@wiu.edu
Friday, Room: 167-171
1:15
Participants will actively explore children’s topical literature with
interactive responding to reading and process writing connections.
Motivational activities (teacher-designed) will be conducted with handout
models (writing), content information, fine arts, and appropriate websites.
Concepts and procedures will be provided in programs and on visual
transparencies for audience members. Come and enjoy!
6. Presenter’s Name: Diane Merkel, MEd.
dmerkel@95percentgroup.com
Friday Room: 175
1:15
Demystifying Multisyllable Words
Many students in grades 3 and above mispronounce longer words. Decoding multisyllabic words
is an essential skill impacting reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. In this interactive
session, participants will practice a four‐step technique to recognize patterns, identify sounds,
and apply syllable division rules. The Technique is designed for a whole‐class instruction in
grades 3‐high school, taking only five minutes a day and can be used for intervention groups, as
well.
7. Diane Sanderson
dsanderson@recordedbooks.com
School Consultant
Exploration
(Friday) Room: 299
Time: 1:15
I have diverse learners in my classroom at all reading readiness levels and at all levels of
engagement (and disengagement). How can they handle choice and take responsibility
for their own learning? How can I successfully manage students and provide multiple
learning choices for independent literacy learning?
8. Presentation Title: www.TeachTechnology.com
Presenter’s Name: Kate Lerseth Co-Presenters: Dr. Sharon Jensen (Simpson
Professor) and Samantha Gaddis (Simpson Student)
Email: kate.lerseth@simpson.edu
Room: 158
Friday: 1:15
This session will demonstrate how to use technology and the internet to
help students learn in a fun and engaging way. Many examples, materials,
and lessons will be given to participants. “Education is not the filling of the
pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats~
3. Audience (Please check all that apply) ~ Preschool ~ Elementary ~ Title I