G.17 Title: DOES IT REALLY MATTER
HOW KIDS THINK? IDEAS AND INSIGHTS INTO HELPING STUDENTS GROW AS READERS
Description: This interactive session
will focus on how young children think about reading and about themselves as
readers and the relationship that it has on their reading progress. We will use
video clips and artifacts to discuss ways to help children develop 'generative
theories.' Participants:
Diane Stephens, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Kelly Still, Lexington Richland
School District
Tara Thompson, Lexington Richland
School District
Location: Room 302, Level Three, MGM
Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
G.20 Title: WRITER'S WORKSHOP IN
PRE-KINDERGARTEN: CULTIVATING TEACHER LEADERSHIP AND LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT IN A
STATE AND FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM
Description: This panel presentation
will provide a glimpse of a multi-year project in which teachers in a federally
state subsided prekindergarten program and a university instructor explore
writers workshop in three diverse classrooms.
Participants:
Erin Miller, University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Heather Silver, Horrell Hill Elementary
Hannah Stair, Horrell Hill Elementary
Lori Tilley, Horrell Hill Elementary
Location: Room 307,
Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30-AM – 10:45AM
G.21 Title: UNDERSTANDING
OURSELVES AND OTHERS: HOW GLOBAL PICTUREBOOKS HELP CHILDREN DREAM, CONNECT,
IGNITE!
Description: In
this session the presenters share how they used art and writing experiences
with global children’s literature to help pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and
first grade children understand themselves as cultural beings and how then
studying another culture further enhanced and enriched the children’s
intercultural understandings of themselves and others.
Participants:
Prisca Martens, Towson University
Stacy Aghalarov, Pot Spring
Elementary School
Margot Clarke-Williams, Pot Spring
Elementary School
Michelle Doyle, Pot Spring
School
Laura Fuhrman, Pot Spring
School
Christie Furnari, Pot
Spring School
Jenna Loomis, Pot Spring
School
Liz Soper, Pto Spring School
Darlene Wolinski, Pot
Spring School
Ray Martens, Towson University
Location: Room
304, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30 AM
- 10:45 AM
H.08 Title: TEXTS
DON'T WRITE THEMSELVES-AUTHORS (AND ILLUSTRATORS!) DO: REFRAMING THE IDEA OF MENTOR TEXTS IN THE
WRITING WORKSHOP
Description: While
the term mentor texts is popular, in fact, it’s the authors and illustrators
who are mentors, not the texts themselves. Two teachers of writing join a
beloved mentor, award-winning writer and illustrator Marla Frazee, to show how
powerful mentorship can be in a writing workshop for beginning writers.
Participants:
Lisa Cleaveland, Jonathan Valley Elementary School
Marla Frazee, Beach Lane Books
Katie Wood Ray,
Independent Author and Consultant
Allyn Johnson, Beach Lane Books -
Respondent
Location: Premier
Ballroom Room 313, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday
11/17 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
I.15 CONSTRUCTING CRITICAL
KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSE IN THE CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE ELEMENTARY
CLASSROOMS WITH CRITICAL AND GLOBAL TEXTS
Level: Elementary
Topic of Interest: Literature
Description: The
purpose of this conversation is to ignite conversations and response around
critical and global texts in classrooms. The presenters will facilitate
discussion of international texts, critical conversations, and tools needed to
create analytical learning. Examples will be examined in groups. These groups
will come back together and synthesize understandings.
Participants:
Jeanne Fain, Middle Tennessee State
University
Bobbie Solley, Middle Tennessee
State University
Location: Room 304, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
J.17 Title: CARING PRACTICES IN EARLY LITERACY CLASSROOMS:
CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL NOTIONS
Level: Elementary Topic of Interest: Other
Description: Caring relationships are foundational to literacy
teaching/learning. However, when families ways of using and supporting
literacies and learning are not valued in classrooms, caring environments
cannot be achieved. This panel shares stories from diverse settings to suggest
a new definition of caring from a critical and culturally relevant perspective.
Participants:
Gloria Boutte, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
George Johnson, South Carolina State University
Kindel Turner Nash, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
Dinah Volk, Cleveland State
University, Cleveland, OH
Susi Long, Chair
Location: Room 307, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
J.25 Title: RECONNECTING,
REIGNITING, AND REALIZING THE DREAMS WE DREAMED
Level: Teacher
Education, Elementary Topic of Interest: 21st-Century
Literacy Description: Presenters will discuss how
collaboratively writing a literacy standards document for The National Board of
Professional Teaching Standards reignited their passions as educators and
impacted their classroom practice and research in early childhood language and
literacy development with particular focus on English language learners and
visual and digital literacy. Participants:
Stella Nowell, University of Wyoming Lab School, Laramie
Becky McGraw, Cherokee County
School District
Jonathan Gillentine, Rev. Benjamin Parker
School
Jennifer Strachan, Montgomery County
Public Schools
Location: Room
109, Level One, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 2:45 PM -
4:00 PM
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