Presenter Information

Summer Literacy Institute

Proposal Title

Concurrent Session II

Description

Sessions

"3 Week Genre Units to Teach Reading & Writing", Michelle Antonacci and Lori Gross. Audience: Elementary

  • A 3-week genre unit of instruction along with its imbedded, research-based instructional delivery models will be presented. The reciprocal reading and writing process, teacher/student metacognition, partner reading and verbalization, and the gradual release of responsibility model will be discussed. The unit can then be replicated with other genres.

"Listen My Children and You Shall Hear: Inquiry and Historical Poetry", Elayne Anderson and Patty Lambusta. Audience: Elementary/Middle

  • In this session we will share a structured Guided Inquiry unit that ensures rigorous learning with meaningful connections across the English and social studies content areas. This poetry unit will get your students excited about authentic inquiry and writing their own historical poems.

"Researching with Primary Sources: The Samuel W. Tucker Story", Nancy Silcox (author). Audience: Grades 3-12

  • Civil rights lawyer Tucker organized a 1939 sit-in to protest Alexandria (VA) Library's "whites only" policy. Challenging public school segregation during "Massive Resistance," his 1968 Supreme Court case hastened school integration. Explains research using primary sources and how teaching inquiry skills improves students’ reading for information, note taking and summarizing proficiency.

"Cli-fi: The Hottest New Sub-genre", Lynne Farrell Stover (author). Audience: Middle/High

  • Cli-Fi, fiction featuring climate change, portrays humans dealing with extreme weather situations. Discover how the dire events of rising water, extreme heat, and freezing temperatures are contributing to the popularity of some relevant and thought-provoking literature. This interactive session includes hands-on lessons, a topical bibliography, and door prizes.

"Creating Avenues of Instruction", Scott Cassell. Audience: Middle/High

  • With the advent of capstone projects, more self-directed learning, and independent work being utilized in the 21st century classroom, the time has come for us to look at the details that often are overlooked in our instructional plans. We will discuss the ways in which teachers and librarians can assess many the skills that are often taken for granted and how the lack of these small skills have a negative impact on many of our more complex learning objectives.

"Writing, publishing, and promoting young adult literature", Kristy Gillespie (author) and Sidney McPhail (author). Audience: All

  • Learn firsthand from two authors (a teacher and a high school student) as they discuss the processes they went through to write, publish, and promote their books.

Location

Ruffner

Start Date

7-17-2014 2:45 PM

End Date

7-17-2014 3:45 PM

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Jul 17th, 2:45 PM Jul 17th, 3:45 PM

Concurrent Session II

Ruffner

Sessions

"3 Week Genre Units to Teach Reading & Writing", Michelle Antonacci and Lori Gross. Audience: Elementary

  • A 3-week genre unit of instruction along with its imbedded, research-based instructional delivery models will be presented. The reciprocal reading and writing process, teacher/student metacognition, partner reading and verbalization, and the gradual release of responsibility model will be discussed. The unit can then be replicated with other genres.

"Listen My Children and You Shall Hear: Inquiry and Historical Poetry", Elayne Anderson and Patty Lambusta. Audience: Elementary/Middle

  • In this session we will share a structured Guided Inquiry unit that ensures rigorous learning with meaningful connections across the English and social studies content areas. This poetry unit will get your students excited about authentic inquiry and writing their own historical poems.

"Researching with Primary Sources: The Samuel W. Tucker Story", Nancy Silcox (author). Audience: Grades 3-12

  • Civil rights lawyer Tucker organized a 1939 sit-in to protest Alexandria (VA) Library's "whites only" policy. Challenging public school segregation during "Massive Resistance," his 1968 Supreme Court case hastened school integration. Explains research using primary sources and how teaching inquiry skills improves students’ reading for information, note taking and summarizing proficiency.

"Cli-fi: The Hottest New Sub-genre", Lynne Farrell Stover (author). Audience: Middle/High

  • Cli-Fi, fiction featuring climate change, portrays humans dealing with extreme weather situations. Discover how the dire events of rising water, extreme heat, and freezing temperatures are contributing to the popularity of some relevant and thought-provoking literature. This interactive session includes hands-on lessons, a topical bibliography, and door prizes.

"Creating Avenues of Instruction", Scott Cassell. Audience: Middle/High

  • With the advent of capstone projects, more self-directed learning, and independent work being utilized in the 21st century classroom, the time has come for us to look at the details that often are overlooked in our instructional plans. We will discuss the ways in which teachers and librarians can assess many the skills that are often taken for granted and how the lack of these small skills have a negative impact on many of our more complex learning objectives.

"Writing, publishing, and promoting young adult literature", Kristy Gillespie (author) and Sidney McPhail (author). Audience: All

  • Learn firsthand from two authors (a teacher and a high school student) as they discuss the processes they went through to write, publish, and promote their books.