Proposal Title
Concurrent Session III
Description
"Information Please!", Nancy Zirkle & Debbie Bowen. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
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What do snakes and stars and sunken treasures have in common? Why, they are all wonderful topics for informational texts! Come along as we explore research-based activities for teaching students in grades K-6 how to read and think critically about informational texts. Strategies for all teachers, librarians, reading specialists, etc.
"It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme: Using Poetry across the Curriculum", Margaret Scott & Anna Ford. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
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Presenters will share cross-curricular poetry activities based on poetry mentor texts and fiction and nonfiction read-alouds. Participants will be engaged by writing poems using mentor texts and poetry frames and by examining professional and children’s poetry books and student work samples.
"Bringing Black History to Life", Kelly Starling Lyons (author). Audience: Primary, Intermediate
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Using slideshows, music, show-and-tell and readings, children’s book author Kelly Starling Lyons will share how history inspires her work and ways to get kids plugged in. Participants will leave with a list of children’s books that salute black history and tips on connecting kids with stories from the past. Learn more about Kelly at www.kellystarlinglyons.com.
"Voices from the Titanic: Discovering History Through a Poet's Eyes", Allan Wolf (author). Audience: Intermediate, Jr. High/Middle High School
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Come explore the most famous ship in the world and meet a few of the passengers who sailed on her doomed maiden voyage. Poet and author, Allan Wolf, will guide you through a tour of his novel in verse, The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic. Featuring music, slides, readers theatre, and a five-foot-long foam rubber Titanic "puppet," this author session will bring to life the famous ship as well as some of those who sailed her.
"Balancing Books & Boards", Kathleen Roberts. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
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This session will address the need to create lessons that incorporate both text and technology. Understanding why and how these lessons are created will help participants create their own ideas for lessons. Books include different types of text (fiction and nonfiction) while boards includes different types of technology
"To Pin or not to Pin: How Pinterest is Impacting the Classroom and the Library", Sara Southall. Audience: All
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This presentation will examine the ways in which Pinterest, a pinboard-style photo-sharing website which allows users to create theme-based image collections, has become a popular site for providing ideas for classroom teachers and librarians. Issues of copyright, digital cultivation and Pinterest’s impact on curriculum and instruction will be explored.
Location
Ruffner
Start Date
7-19-2013 1:30 PM
End Date
7-19-2013 2:30 PM
Concurrent Session III
Ruffner
"Information Please!", Nancy Zirkle & Debbie Bowen. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
-
What do snakes and stars and sunken treasures have in common? Why, they are all wonderful topics for informational texts! Come along as we explore research-based activities for teaching students in grades K-6 how to read and think critically about informational texts. Strategies for all teachers, librarians, reading specialists, etc.
"It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme: Using Poetry across the Curriculum", Margaret Scott & Anna Ford. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
-
Presenters will share cross-curricular poetry activities based on poetry mentor texts and fiction and nonfiction read-alouds. Participants will be engaged by writing poems using mentor texts and poetry frames and by examining professional and children’s poetry books and student work samples.
"Bringing Black History to Life", Kelly Starling Lyons (author). Audience: Primary, Intermediate
-
Using slideshows, music, show-and-tell and readings, children’s book author Kelly Starling Lyons will share how history inspires her work and ways to get kids plugged in. Participants will leave with a list of children’s books that salute black history and tips on connecting kids with stories from the past. Learn more about Kelly at www.kellystarlinglyons.com.
"Voices from the Titanic: Discovering History Through a Poet's Eyes", Allan Wolf (author). Audience: Intermediate, Jr. High/Middle High School
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Come explore the most famous ship in the world and meet a few of the passengers who sailed on her doomed maiden voyage. Poet and author, Allan Wolf, will guide you through a tour of his novel in verse, The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic. Featuring music, slides, readers theatre, and a five-foot-long foam rubber Titanic "puppet," this author session will bring to life the famous ship as well as some of those who sailed her.
"Balancing Books & Boards", Kathleen Roberts. Audience: Primary, Intermediate
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This session will address the need to create lessons that incorporate both text and technology. Understanding why and how these lessons are created will help participants create their own ideas for lessons. Books include different types of text (fiction and nonfiction) while boards includes different types of technology
"To Pin or not to Pin: How Pinterest is Impacting the Classroom and the Library", Sara Southall. Audience: All
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This presentation will examine the ways in which Pinterest, a pinboard-style photo-sharing website which allows users to create theme-based image collections, has become a popular site for providing ideas for classroom teachers and librarians. Issues of copyright, digital cultivation and Pinterest’s impact on curriculum and instruction will be explored.
