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Annual Conference

FRA’s 44th
Annual Conference

Wyndham Orlando Resort
October 19 – 22, 2006

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
   

Saturday, October 21, 2006

   
         
7:00 - 8:00   DELEGATE'S BREAKFAST - Invitation Only    
       
8:00 - 9:00   Research without Copying   FEATURED SPEAKER:        Nancy Polette
       
8:00 - 9:00   Take Reading to Heart: The Power of a Comprehensive Approach!    April DeCesare
       
8:00 - 9:00   Go Outside and Play   FEATURED AUTHOR:             Marianne Berkes
       
8:00 - 9:00   Make it Meaningful: Connecting Reading Instruction with Literacy Center Practice for All Children   FEATURED SPEAKER:
Susan Nations
       
8:00 - 9:00   Secret Stories - Cracking the Reading Code with the "Brain in Mind!"   Katie Garner
       
8:00 - 10:15   RESEARCH ROUNDTABLES   Laurel Stanley Becky Beran, Katie Chowdhury, Kristen Shumbera, Andrea Rosenblatt
       
8:00 - 9:00   CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD: How to Incorporate the Nominated Books into Your Elementary Curriculum   Shannon Ayrish, Pat Camber, Sharon Hinsley, & Nancy Reddick
       
8:00 - 9:00   Help Me Reading Strategies. . . I'm in Suspense   The Apron Ladies - Terri Heidger, Beth Stevens, Rachel Chappell
       
8:00 - 9:00   Assisting the Reluctant and Remedial Reader with Electronic Texts   Terence Cavanaugh
       
8:00 - 9:00   Reaching All Readers with Blazing Books   Becky Bone
       
8:00 - 9:00   Boys Behaving Badly:  A model for Using Literacy Centers in Middle School   Lynette Prevatte
       
8:00 - 9:00   50 Best Books for Teaching Science, Math, History, Values, and Everything Else - And Kids Like Them Too!   Judy Sommer
       
8:00 - 9:00   Make it Fun! Hands-on Strategies for Teaching Essential Skills   TBA
       
8:00 - 9:00   CPR for Struggling Readers: Differentiated Instruction for Intensive Reading   Jane Feber
       
8:00 - 9:00   Bell Ringers that Work: Building a Sense of Urgency in Your Secondary Students   Virginia Harper
       
8:00 - 9:00   Reader's Theater - A differentiated Instructional Approach to Fluency Curriculum   Christina Plasencia
       
8:00 - 9:00   Words . . . The Heart of Reading: Consider the Walls   Martha Todd, Mandy Stephens
       
8:00 - 9:00   Power of Longman Learner's Dictionaries for Low-Level Learners   Stephanie Garcia
       
8:00 - 9:00   Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling   Larry Bedenbaugh
       
8:00 - 9:00   Preservice Teachers' Experiences as They Learn to Become Literacy Educators in Diverse Settings   Kim Shea, Maura Santiago, Kimberly Schwartz
       
9:15 - 10:15   From A-Z the Bag Ladies Make-n-Takes are "Lifesavers"   The Bag Ladies - Ann Steck & Vicki Sellers
       
9:15 - 10:15   Tapping into Technology: Discover how Your Students Can Become Enthusiastic Writers and Even be Published   FEATURED AUTHOR:             Margriet Ruurs
       
9:15 - 10:15   The A, B, C's of Manatees   FEATURED AUTHOR:            Steve Swinburne
       
9:15 - 10:15   Connections for Kids   Sandy Gardner
       
9:15 - 10:15   Secondary Reading Council Meeting   Roxana Hurtado
       
9:15 - 10:15   RESEARCH ROUNDTABLES                                            Double Session 8:00-10:15   Laurel Stanley Becky Beran, Katie Chowdhury, Kristen Shumbera, Andrea Rosenblatt
       
9:15 - 10:15   Football Coach & Reading Coach: Transferable Skills?   Evan Lefsky
       
9:15 - 10:15   Singing in Shared Reading   Luana Mitten
       
9:15 - 10:15   Visual Arts: Engaging Families to Build Early Literacy Skills   Gigi David
       
9:15 - 10:15   Activating the Brain to Get to the Heart of Reading   Pamela Davidson            
       
9:15 - 10:15   Getting Right to the Heart of the Matter: Exploring Critical Issues Through Literature Response   Sharon Peck, Cheryl Kreutter
       
9:15 - 10:15   Powering -up Your Language Block   Leah Verne, Kassandra DiMarino
       
9:15 - 10:15   Reading to Learn/Learning to read   Pamela Houze
       
9:15 - 10:15   Reading Logs: Putting Metacognition at the Heart of Reading Instruction   Karri Williams, Cindy Vanderpool, Beth Warren
       
9:15 - 10:15   From Dream to Reality: One teacher's journey implementing an after-school tutoring program in reading   Valorie Fish
       
9:15 - 10:15   Engaging the mind through the fingers: Teachers' stance and online interaction in content areas   Susan Wegmann
       
9:15 - 10:15   Secrets to Student Writing Success   Mark Diamond
       
9:15 - 10:15   Toying with Writing: Mini-Lessons for a Kid's World   Teri Mitchell
       
9:15 - 10:15   CPR: Get to the heart of the matter   Sonja Perkins
       
9:15 - 10:15   Secret Stories - Cracking the Reading Code with the "Brain in Mind!"   Katie Garner
       
10:30 - 11:45   THIRD GENERAL SESSION: Vocabulary: the Key to Reading, School, and Long Term Success   Jack Pikulsky
       
12:00 - 1:30   MIDDLE GRADES LUNCHEON - Creating Books for Young Time Travelers: Equipped with paintings, drawings, a paintbox in constant use since the Nixon Administration, and perhaps, her harmonica, Cheryl Harness will share how she has created her many historical picture books, overcame a youth spent with more than her share of siblings and boyfriends, and, not incidentally, how she came to write her first historical novel, Just for You to Know.