Thursday, October 8, 2009

More Words, More Children: Empowering At-Risk Children Through Reading

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Join us for a one-day conference where you’ll learn how introducing or putting more words in at-risk children’s lives will help improve their literacy skills and overall quality of life.

Keynote Speaker
Susan B. Neuman, Ed.D.

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Former U.S. assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education and professor of educational studies specializing in early literacy development at the University of Michigan

Featured Speaker
Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.

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Professor of urban education, University of Illinois at Chicago and director of the Center for Literacy will share ideas on how to address the growing literacy problem facing at-risk students kindergarten through third grade.

5 CPDU CREDITS AVAILABLE

SOLUTION PARTNERS

Learn How To Get More Words To More Children

IN SCHOOL

Engaging Instruction

• Reading In Motion will address how to make instruction more engaging using arts-based whole group instruction, small groups for more eyeball-to-eyeball instruction and feedback loops for more practice.

More Eyeball-to-Eyeball Instruction

• Lynn Fielding of Kennewick School District in Washington will present Kennewick’s model for assuring students are reading at or above grade level by third grade by providing more direct instructional time.

AT HOME & IN COMMUNITIES

Role of Parents

• Flora Rodriquez-Brown, director of Project FLAME and professor of education and coordinator of bilingual/ESL training programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago will share family literacy issues and ESL programs designed to increase improve the Latino parents and home literacy environments of their children ages three to eight.

• Sharon Darling, president and founder of National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and Laura Westberg, senior director of NCFL will address the role of parents and how parents can gathering more books and why they are important to helping deliver more words to more children.

Take away concrete tactics to use from our Solution Partners during the breakout sessions at the conference.

Who Should Attend:
Teachers, Reading Teachers, Reading Specialists, Reading Coaches, Lead Literacy Teachers, Principals, Administrators, Graduate Students, Parents

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (click here)

Registration
Regular Rate: $165 inclusive breakfast and lunch
Graduate Student Rate: $115 inclusive breakfast and lunch

Registration Form (click here)
Contact summit@readinginmotion.org for more information.
Check out the Summit brochure.

A special note of thanks to our sponsors:

Sponsorship opportunities available: Contact sid@readinginmotion.org

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