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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.   Cheryl Harness                  Luncheon $27
       
12:00 - 1:30   ELEMENTARY GRADES LUNCHEON - Teaching Children to Respect the Earth: Lynne's passionate respect for the Earth and ability to write children's books gives her a unique position to use our democratic society to enable children to learn how to make a difference in their world. She will share many of her books that were inspired by her love of the natural world and how using nature to integrated the curriculum makes a child's learning relevant.    Lynne Cherry                      Luncheon $27
       
12:30 - 1:30   Exactly What is the Rest of the Class Doing During Small Group Instruction, One on One Conferring or Individual Assessment?   FEATURED SPEAKERS:
The Sisters - Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
       
12:30 - 1:30   Luring Readers with Improvisation & Readers Theatre   FEATURED SPEAKER:            Nancy Polette
       
12:30 - 1:30   Take Reading to Heart: The Power of a Comprehensive Approach!    April DeCesare
       
12:30 - 1:30   Literacy Across the Prekindergarten Curriculum   Brian Gifford, Janice Wood, Bronwyn McLemore
       
12:30 - 1:30   Creating Joyful Readers with Supported Independent Reading   Nancy Allison
       
12:30 - 1:30   Oral Prosody Through Music Rehearsal Techniques   Elizabeth Bears
       
12:30 - 1:30   More "Time to Teach" Reading   Tracy Fettinger
         
12:30 - 1:30   The Bilingual Bag   Nanette Avery
       
12:30 - 1:30   Technology: Breathing New Life into the Literacy Program   Deborah Kozdras, James Welsh, Kathryn Laframboise, Ann Hall
       
12:30 - 1:30   Reading Toolkit - A Staff Development Program   Elaine Stewart, Lissette Moller
       
12:30 - 1:30   Marginal Rubrics: A Strategy for Improving Student Writing   Sharon Kossack, Jaan Roegge
       
12:30 - 1:30   Sensory Reading Strategies   Linnie Comerford
       
12:30 - 1:30   Passion for Publishing. . . Don't Teach Class Without It!   Chelsea Jenkins
       
12:30 - 1:30   Using the Arts to Invigorate Reading Instruction   Jeffrey Fessler
       
12:30 - 1:30   How to Initiate a School-Wide Readers Theatre Festival    Lavinia Draper
       
1:45 - 2:45   Exploring Racial Literacy in the Elementary Classroom   FEATURED SPEAKER:
Rebecca Rogers
       
1:45 - 2:45   The Reading Brain: Implications from Recent Brain Research   Andrea Rosenblatt
       
1:45 - 2:45   Florida Literacy Coaches Association Meeting   Brian Dorma
       
1:45 - 2:45   The Tale of Two Artists   FEATURED AUTHOR:               Michael Elsohn Ross
       
1:45 - 2:45   Literacy Across the Primary Curriculum   Brian Gifford, Janice Wood, Bronwyn McLemore
       
12:30 - 1:30   Finding Time to Tutor During the School Day   Nora Hoover
       
12:30 - 1:30   Achieve Success: Comprehensive Literacy at its Best!   Jefferey Dane
       
1:45 - 2:45   Effective Intervention - the Six Steps from Sound to Text   Angelee Eames
       
1:45 - 2:45   The Heart of Reading - Teaching Comprehension Strategies with Anchor Charts   Donna Tidwell, Rebecca Powell
       
1:45 - 2:45   Reading Comprehension Strategies:  Reader's Toolkit   Teresa Bouchard
       
1:45 - 2:45   Implementing a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) Model of Service Delivery Using Data-Driving Tailored Professional Development in Literacy   Ava Byrne
       
1:45 - 2:45   Adolescent Literacy: From Striving Readers to Thriving Readers   Debra Hopkins
       
1:45 - 2:45   Read Alouds in the Upper Grades   Cynthia Dwyer
       
1:45 - 2:45   Getting All Students to Think . . .And Helping it Make Sense!   Julie Tamell
       
1:45 - 2:45   Perspectives on Reading Comprehension & English Language Learners   Valerie Wright, Jane Govoni
       
1:45 - 2:45   Improving Fluency to Improve Comprehension   Barbara Denbow
       
1:45 - 2:45   Promoting Literacy with a Little Help from the Dolphins   Catherine Renaud, Megan Merdstock
       
3:00 - 4:15   FOURTH GENERAL SESSION: On the Shoulders of Giants: Looking Backward to Move Forward   Janet Allen
         
    SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TOWN    
    Choose from:    
    Emeril's    
    Universal CityWalk    
    Sam Snead's & Chocolate Party    
    Downtown Disney