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Chapters International Reading Institutes by Lester Laminick, Dan Feigelson and Ellin Keene 27th - 28th October 2012,Warsaw |
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| Children growing up in the 21st Century are bombarded daily by information. It comes in images, tweets, emails, status updates on FB. It cries out from the TV, the video games, the computer monitor. Information is expanding at such a rapid rate we can’t keep pace. In this world it becomes ever more important that education place more focused effort on developing critical thinking, the ability and the desire to read widely and with depth, and to be able to communicate both efficiently and effectively through all the venues available to citizens of a global community in the 21st Century. | |||||
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| Grade K-2 Institutes | |||||
| Lester Laminack Making Every Read Aloud an Intentional and Purposeful Together we will explore the art and function of read-aloud experiences in the elementary classroom. We will consider three broad intentions and six specific purposes for making read aloud an essential part of every day. Lester will demonstrate the art of reading aloud well with specific attention to tone, intensity, pacing and mood. We will explore how read-alouds can be a powerful tool in building language and literacy concepts. We will study how a set of thoughtfully selected and intentionally used picture books can be the scaffold to strengthen topic-specific teaching and learning. Come explore how a well-chosen text set can be organized to include read aloud, literature circles, and independent reading that will layer in vocabulary, scaffold concepts and help students visualize what they are reading in content area materials. Lester L. Laminack is Professor Emeritus from department of Birth-Kindergarten, Elementary and Middle Grades Education, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he received two awards for excellence in teaching [the Botner Superior Teaching Award and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award]. Lester is now a full-time writer and consultant working with schools throughout the United States. He is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English and served three years as co-editor of the NCTE journal Primary Voices and as editor of the Children’s Book Review Department of the NCTE journal Language Arts (2003-2006). He also served as a teaching editor for the magazine Teaching K-8 and wrote the Parent Connection column (2000-2002). He is a former member of the Whole Language Umbrella Governing Board, a former member of the Governing Board and Secretary of the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children, and a former member of the Board of Directors for the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking. He served as the Basic Reading Consultant to Literacy Volunteers of America from 1987 through 2001. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Our Children’s Place. His academic publications include several books including Learning with Zachary (Scholastic), Spelling in Use (NCTE), Volunteers Working with Young Readers (NCTE), andhis contributions to The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (NCTE), Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature (Heinemann) Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum (Heinemann) and two books from Scholastic Cracking Open the Author’s Craft (2007) and Unwrapping the Read Aloud (2009) from Scholastic. In addition he has several articles published in journals such as The Reading Teacher, Science and Children, Language Arts, Primary Voices, and Young Children. Lester is also the author of six children’s books: The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, Trevor’s Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth, Saturdays and Tea Cakes, Jake’s 100th Day of School, Snow Day! and, Three Hens and a Peacock all from Peachtree Publishers. He has three new titles under contract including, Sam Loves Pink (Peachtree), BULLYING: Working Toward Kindness and Civility and Human Compassion. Taking a Proactive Stance Through Guided Read-Aloud and Conscious Conversations (Heinemann), and The Writing Teacher’s Troubleshooting Guide (Heinemann). |
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| Grade 3 - 5 Institute | |||||
| Dan Feigelson
Making Comprehension Concrete: Assessing and Challenging Readers, Grades 4 - 8 Perhaps the most important job of the upper elementary and middle school reading teacher is to teach students to sustain comprehension over longer and longer texts. The problem is that commercial assessments typically look at a child’s reading level using only short passages. In this two-day institute, Dan will explore new ways to use reading conferences, book-talks, and informal writing-about-reading in our workshop instruction. Teachers will come away with hands-on strategies for both assessing comprehension over time and pushing young readers to think more deeply about narrative and informational texts. Dan Feigelson is a literacy consultant who specializes in all aspects of reading and writing workshop, grades 2-8. He has worked extensively in New York City schools as a teacher, principal, staff developer, curriculum writer, and local superintendent. An early member of the Teachers College Writing Project (led by Lucy Calkins and Shelley Harwayne), Dan served as a fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Learning, where he helped develop literacy standards for cities across the United States. He is featured in many instructional videos and web materials, and has led institutes, workshops and lab-sites around the country. A regular presenter at national literacy conferences, Dan is the author of Practical Punctuation: Lessons In Rule Making And Rule Breaking For Elementary Writers (Heinemann, 2008). He is currently working on a new book about teaching reading comprehensione in K-8 classrooms. |
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| Grade 4 - 8 Institute | |||||
| Ellin Keene To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension Instruction How do we know if children comprehend? What helps a student retain and reapply what they learn? Are there identifiable behaviors, actions and thinking patterns associated with children who understand deeply and think critically? Based on observations in hundreds of classrooms, a clear pattern of actions and thinking outcomes emerges and can be described, taught and internalized by students. We can teach children to understand more deeply and lastingly through modeling and discussing what it looks, sounds and feels like to comprehend. In this session, we’ll explore the Dimensions and Outcomes of understanding as described in Ellin’s 2008 publication, To Understand and her 2011 publication, Talk About Understanding. Ellin Oliver Keene has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, non-profit director and adjunct professor of reading and writing. For sixteen years she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition. She served as Deputy Director and Director of Literacy and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the University of Pennsylvania for 4 years. Ellin currently serves as Director of Research and Development for the PEBC, as senior advisor to Heinemann Professional Development and works with schools and districts throughout the country and abroad. Ellin is author of To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension (Heinemann, 2008), co-author of Comprehension Going Forward (Heinemann, 2011), Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, 2nd edition (Heinemann, 2007) and of Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies (Shell Educational Books, 2006) as well as numerous chapters for professional books and journals on the teaching of reading as well as education policy journals. Her forthcoming book/dvd is Talk About Understanding. |
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| All Educators, Assistants, Administrators and Literacy Coaches, for grades K-8 Central office curriculum and instruction coordinators and university instructors in teacher training |
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| You choose one presenter whose workshop you will attend for 2 days. The Keynote and Panel discussions are common for the full group. |
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| Euro- 495/- Closing date 1st September 2012 | |||||
| Euro 450/- Early Bird offer till 1st March 2012 |
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| Special Group Discount for 8 or more participants Euro 400/- 15th January 2012 | |||||
| Investment includes Certificate of Participation for 16 Professional Development hours. | |||||
| This also includes Lunch, 2 coffee breaks and workshop handouts. | |||||
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| Warsaw | |||||
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| Shonal Agarwal CEO Website: shonal@chaptersinternational.com chaptersinternational@gmail.com Website: www.chaptersinternational.com |
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