This convention session strand focuses on whole langage theory and practice and is sponsored by the Whole Language Umbrella (WLU). The sessions provide understandings of critical literacy, inquiry and collaborative learning, and that integrate lliteracy with other sign systems and knowledge systems, situated in social, historical, political, and cultural contexts.
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Opening Session: 9:30-10:45 a.m.
A.29 Creating Cultures of Literacy through Inquiry
Faculty from three diverse elementary schools across the country will share the beliefs and practices that have been foundational in creating cultures of literacy through inquiry. In all three settings, literacy is used as a primary tool for learning, for inspiring conversations, posing powerful questions, developing units of study, and taking critical social action.
LISTEN to Heidi Mills discuss this session.
- Mike Oliver, Kris-Ann Florence, Gwen Struble, Jeanie Germaine, Zaharis Elementary School, Mesa, Arizona
- Heidi Mills, University of South Carolina and Center for Inquiry, Columbia
- Jennifer Hiro, Innovations Public Charter School, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
- Timothy O’Keefe, Center for Inquiry, Columbia South Carolina
Session B: 11:00 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
B.13 Light One Candle (General)
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B.21 Serving Two Masters: Professional Development to Create Passionate, Intellectual Readers–with an in Spite of Data (Elementary)
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B.25 Exploring the Possibilities for a Better Tomorrow: Using Literature to Examine Ourselves and Our World (Elementary-Middle)
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Session C: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
C.26 Revisiting Reading Strategies: Seeking Clarity and Aligned Effective Instructional Practices (Elementary-College)
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C.36 From Byway to Highway: Moving Effective Secondary Workshop Instruction from the Classroom to the District (Elementary-Secondary)
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Session D: 2:30-3:45 p.m.
D.04 Cultivating New Teachers for Diverse Classrooms (General)
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D.22 Book Choice Matters: Teaching Young Learners How to Make Wise Independent Choices (Elementary)
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D.24 Journeys of Thought: Teaching Students to Use Writing to Develop Critical Thinking Skills (Elementary-Middle)
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Session DE: 2:30-5:15 p.m.
DE.01 2009 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts (Elementary-College)
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Session E: 4:00-5:15 p.m.
E.17 Keeping Our Language and Our Instruction within the Child’s Zone
(Elementary)
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E.18 Supporting Beginning Readers in an RTI Climate: Miscue Analysis as a Response to Intervention (Elementary)
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Session F: 8:00-9:15 a.m.
F.06 Stitching Together Art, Literacy, and History with Gee’s Bend Quilts
(General)
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F.07 Reviviing Reading in the Post-NCLB World (General)
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Session G: 9:30-10:45 a.m.
G.16 Assessing comprehension Between the Traditional Standards (General)
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G.30 Learning Between the Lines: Professional Development as Inquiry
(Elementary-College)
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Session I: 1:15-2:30 p.m.
I.20 Creating Space for Critical Talk: Empowering Students Beyond the Text (Elementary)
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Session J: 2:45-4:00 p.m.
J.18 Why Is Our Community So Polluted? Second Graders Read Between the Lines (Elementary)
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J.29 Making Meaning in Early Childhood Education: Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Literacy through the Arts (Elementary-College)
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Session K: 4:15-5:30 p.m.
K.05 Revitalized Visualization Using Sensory Information (General)
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Session L: 8:30-9:45 a.m.
L.07 Photovoice: Visual Literacy as Action (General)
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L.16 Reading Between the Lines: Looking at Familiar Children’s Books through a Critical Literacy Perspective (Elementary)
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Closing Session: 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
M.19 Reading Like Writers, Writing Like Readers: Teaching Students to Study the Craft of Writing
This panel presentation focuses on teaching students to read texts as writers in the study of craft. The presenters will focus on how to teach students to read as writers, and how to use texts in studies of genre and the qualities of good writing.
- Carl Anderson, literacy consultant K-12, Brooklyn, New York
- Janet Angelillo, literacy consultant K-12, Yorktown Heights, New York
- Daniel Feigelson, New York City Department of Education, New York
Workshop W.14
Conferring, Today: A Decade After How's It Going?
(Grades K-8, teachers, coaches, administrators)
It’s been ten years since the publication of Carl Anderson’s book on conferring with young writers, “How’s It Going?” (Heinemann). In this day-long workshop, Carl will share his newest thinking about conferring. Carl will discuss:
- the link between writing assessment and conferring
- developing a repertoire of conferences
- developing a conferring ‘toolkit’ of mentor texts
- methods for improving conferring school-wide
Dan Feigelson, author of "Practical Punctuation" (Heinemann), will co-lead this workshop with Carl.