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Target Audience: Grades 3 - 12 The key predictor of reading success is how much background knowledge students bring to the reading task. In this session, ideas and tools for building and accessing prior knowledge will be presented.
 * USM READS - October 11, 2010 Session 2 Presentations ** **Sue Beers - **Making Learning Stick: Accessing and Building Prior Knowledge


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Kate Tayloe - ** Creating 21st Century Readers Target Audience: Grades 6 - 12 This presentation will describe ways to motivate and support readers while building and utilizing 21st century skills.


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Casy O’Keefe - ** Phonics Instructions vs. Reading Ability (Session 2 of 2) Target Audience: Preprimary Phonological Awareness is the foundation for phonics instruction and is strongly correlated with later reading ability. Developmentally appropriate practices for phonological awareness are interactive and engaging as well as necessary to support early literacy. This workshop will explore the use of everyday classroom routines such as snack time, calendar, transitions, and storybook interactions as meaningful contexts to facilitate phonological awareness development in young children.


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Abby Schaber - **Implementing Guided Reading as Part of an Effective Literacy Framework Target Audience: Prekindergarten – Grade 5 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">This session will focus on giving children the opportunity to develop as individual readers while participating in socially supported activities. Teachers can expect to walk away from this session with an understanding of the purpose of guided reading, as well as tools for implementing differentiated instruction in both reading skills and reading strategies. Additionally, there will be a make-and-take component of the session, specific to each grade/skill level.


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Deborah Appleman - **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Content Teacher or Reading Teacher: Lessons from the Trenches <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Target Audience: Grades 9 - 12 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">This interactive session will draw from exercises in my recent NCTE book, Adolescent literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of literature. We will take one fiction and one non-fiction text and consider hands-on approaches to teaching both reading and interpretation


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Daniel Boldin, Boswell Book Company - **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">book presentation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Target Audience: Physical Education and Fine Arts <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">A plethora of books will be presented. Titles will be those to “stir” the adult and adolescent reader in the area of physical education and fine arts. Your department just might want to get in on the latest that is available! Jump start your reading!


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Roger Essley - **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Visual Tools in the Content Area <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Target Audience: Grades 6 – 12 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">We’ll see how the same hands-on tools that support emerging readers and writers also help advanced placement high school students develop 21st century digital-visual literacy skills. We’ll also explore research that underscores how essential visual supports are if we want to reach all learners, especially those who struggle with text skills. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Explore the way visual notes helps students anchor and amplify reading comprehension and make class discussion more focused and inclusive. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">See how students use drawing to build definitions that make words more meaningful and make definitions that stick. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">See how integrating text and pictures make content more memorable and accessible, providing effective differentiation for your text challenged kids and your high flyers. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Try a visual verbal writing tool that offers a natural approach to prewriting and an exciting antidote for dreaded revision.