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Chapters International Reading Institutes Lester Laminack, Georgia Heard, Katherine Bomer & Dan Feigelson 18th - 19th October 2012,Singapore |
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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 Non Fiction in the Teaching of Reading There is renewed and increased interest in non-fiction in the teaching of reading and writing. As greater attention is being placed on the role of non-fiction we are being urged to increase the collection of non-fiction material in our classroom libraries and to make stronger connections between literacy instruction and subject specific teaching. Over these two days we will explore non-fiction with attention to:
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), and his 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). Katherine Bomer All Students Have Brilliant Things to Say About Books: Deepening Comprehension and Interpretation Through Read Aloud Conversation Katherine will give us the tools to help our students talk deeply and critically about books, whether in whole class read aloud discussions, in partnerships, or in small groups. Once children learn how to listen well to each other and take turns sharing ideas, they can help each other understand and interpret texts at deeper levels than we can imagine. In this workshop we will think and grow ideas together about how to help our students build great conversations by first teaching then how to talk well with partners about the books we read out loud. Then we can teach our students to think actively while listening to the read aloud, how to prepare for talk by doing small, informal bits of writing or drawing, and how to use the community to help grow deeper ideas about texts--all lessons that they will carry with them as they read independently and with partners. Katherine Bomer taught for over ten years in primary and intermediate grades, and her classrooms have been featured in Annenberg Foundation video productions that are broadcast on public television stations across the US. She currently teaches "Teaching of Composition" courses in the graduate program in Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She worked for six years as a professional developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project with Lucy Calkins, and currently consults nationally and internationally, presenting workshops in school districts as well as demonstrating and coaching inside K-8 and high school classrooms about approaches to teaching reading and writing. Katherine's latest book, Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching from the Brilliance in Every Student's Writing [Heinemann] and its DVD companion, Starting with what Students Do Best [Heinemann], offer a transformative new approach to assessing and responding to student writing, even the most spare or difficult to understand. She also authored Writing a Life: Teaching Memoir to Sharpen Insight, Shape Meaning, and Triumph Over Tests [Heinemann, 2005], and For a Better World: Reading and Writing for Social Action [Heinemann, 2001], with Randy Bomer. Schools invite her to coach them in creating visions for their year-long curriculum in reading and writing, and to help them form teacher and administrator study groups to continue their learning. As a frequent and popular keynote speaker, Katherine combines a teacher's practical advice, a writer's love of language, and a powerful plea for social justice. |
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| Grade 3 - 5 Institutes | |||||
| Georgia Heard Going Beneath the Surface: Deepening Reading Comprehension Together we will explore how to guide students in navigating complex text by going beyond a literal interpretation to a deeper understanding. We will study specific mentor texts -- especially poetry and short text -- that require students to dig beneath the literal meaning and infer a deeper sometimes "hidden meaning." We will consider the role of figurative language in texts of all genres, and focus on multiple comprehension strategies that will enable students to understand complex texts of all genres. Georgia Heard is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project where she worked as senior staff developer in the New York City schools for seven years. For the past twenty years, Georgia has been a frequent keynote speaker at conferences, a consultant and visiting author in school districts throughout the U.S, Canada and around the world. She is the author of numerous professional books on teaching writing including her most recent A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades (Stenhouse, 2009) and Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School (Heinemann,1999) which was cited by Instructor Magazine as "One of the Ten Best Books Every Teacher Should Read." She has also authored many children's books including her most recent poetry anthologies The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems and Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems (Roaring Brook Press). |
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| Grade 5 - 8 Institutes | |||||
| Dan Feigelson Making Comprehension Concrete: Assessing and Challenging Readers 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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| 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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| USD 720/- Closing date 15th September 2012 | |||||
| USD 670/- Early Bird offer till 1st April 2012 |
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| Special Group Discount for 8 or more participants USD 620/- 15th February 2012 | |||||
| Investment includes Certificate of Participation for 17 Professional Development hours. | |||||
| This also includes Lunch, 2 coffee breaks and workshop handouts. | |||||
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| United World College of South East Asia. East Campus. |
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| Contact: | |||||
| Shonal Agarwal CEO Website: shonal@chaptersinternational.com chaptersinternational@gmail.com Website: www.chaptersinternational.com |
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