Session+3

Target Audience: Grades 3 - 12 Reading math and science text poses unique challenges to students. In this session, participants will examine these challenges and learn how to help students use text to enhance their understanding of important math and science concepts.
 * USM READS - October 11, 2010 Session 3 Presentations ** **Sue Beers - **Reading to Learn: using Text to Understand math and Science
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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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Guided Reading at USM ** Target Audience: Prekindergarten – Grade 4 How can we do it better? What do we need to supplement what we already have? Samples of guided reading “kits” that Scholastic sells (authorized by Fountas and Pinnell) will be available. Kits include leveled books (real fiction and nonfiction), running records for every level, skills and strategy charts, and more.
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Deborah Appleman - **Content Teacher or Reading Teacher: Lessons from the Trenches Target Audience: Grades 9 - 12 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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Cristy Jefson - Health **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> Education and Reading Literacy <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%;">Strategies for teaching skills-based health education instruction (analyzing influences, accessing information, goal setting, decision making)
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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: All Grades <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">You didn’t get to session one or two or want even more information on using visual tools for teaching content? Roger will tailor this session to attendees specific needs; answer more questions, and provide additional information on using visual tools.