G.17 Title: DOES IT REALLY MATTER HOW KIDS THINK? IDEAS AND INSIGHTS INTO HELPING STUDENTS GROW AS READERS
Description: This interactive session will focus on how young children think about reading and about themselves as readers and the relationship that it has on their reading progress. We will use video clips and artifacts to discuss ways to help children develop 'generative theories.' Participants:
Diane Stephens, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Kelly Still, Lexington Richland School District
Tara Thompson, Lexington Richland School District
Location: Room 302, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
G.20 Title: WRITER'S WORKSHOP IN PRE-KINDERGARTEN: CULTIVATING TEACHER LEADERSHIP AND LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT IN A STATE AND FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM
Description: This panel presentation will provide a glimpse of a multi-year project in which teachers in a federally state subsided prekindergarten program and a university instructor explore writers workshop in three diverse classrooms.
Participants:
Erin Miller, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Heather Silver, Horrell Hill Elementary
Hannah Stair, Horrell Hill Elementary
Lori Tilley, Horrell Hill Elementary
Location: Room 307, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30-AM – 10:45AM
G.21 Title: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS: HOW GLOBAL PICTUREBOOKS HELP CHILDREN DREAM, CONNECT, IGNITE!
Description: In this session the presenters share how they used art and writing experiences with global children’s literature to help pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade children understand themselves as cultural beings and how then studying another culture further enhanced and enriched the children’s intercultural understandings of themselves and others.
Participants:
Prisca Martens, Towson University
Stacy Aghalarov, Pot Spring Elementary School
Margot Clarke-Williams, Pot Spring Elementary School
Michelle Doyle, Pot Spring School
Laura Fuhrman, Pot Spring School
Christie Furnari, Pot Spring School
Jenna Loomis, Pot Spring School
Liz Soper, Pto Spring School
Darlene Wolinski, Pot Spring School
Ray Martens, Towson University
Location: Room 304, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
H.08 Title: TEXTS DON'T WRITE THEMSELVES-AUTHORS (AND ILLUSTRATORS!) DO: REFRAMING THE IDEA OF MENTOR TEXTS IN THE WRITING WORKSHOP
Description: While the term mentor texts is popular, in fact, it’s the authors and illustrators who are mentors, not the texts themselves. Two teachers of writing join a beloved mentor, award-winning writer and illustrator Marla Frazee, to show how powerful mentorship can be in a writing workshop for beginning writers.
Participants:
Lisa Cleaveland, Jonathan Valley Elementary School
Marla Frazee, Beach Lane Books
Katie Wood Ray, Independent Author and Consultant
Allyn Johnson, Beach Lane Books - Respondent
Location: Premier Ballroom Room 313, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
I.15 CONSTRUCTING CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSE IN THE CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS WITH CRITICAL AND GLOBAL TEXTS
Level: Elementary Topic of Interest: Literature
Description: The purpose of this conversation is to ignite conversations and response around critical and global texts in classrooms. The presenters will facilitate discussion of international texts, critical conversations, and tools needed to create analytical learning. Examples will be examined in groups. These groups will come back together and synthesize understandings.
Participants:
Jeanne Fain, Middle Tennessee State University
Bobbie Solley, Middle Tennessee State University
Location: Room 304, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
J.17 Title: CARING PRACTICES IN EARLY LITERACY CLASSROOMS: CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL NOTIONS
Level: Elementary Topic of Interest: Other
Description: Caring relationships are foundational to literacy teaching/learning. However, when families ways of using and supporting literacies and learning are not valued in classrooms, caring environments cannot be achieved. This panel shares stories from diverse settings to suggest a new definition of caring from a critical and culturally relevant perspective.
Participants:
Gloria Boutte, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
George Johnson, South Carolina State University
Kindel Turner Nash, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Dinah Volk, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Susi Long, Chair
Location: Room 307, Level Three, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
J.25 Title: RECONNECTING, REIGNITING, AND REALIZING THE DREAMS WE DREAMED
Level: Teacher Education, Elementary Topic of Interest: 21st-Century Literacy Description: Presenters will discuss how collaboratively writing a literacy standards document for The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards reignited their passions as educators and impacted their classroom practice and research in early childhood language and literacy development with particular focus on English language learners and visual and digital literacy. Participants:
Stella Nowell, University of Wyoming Lab School, Laramie
Becky McGraw, Cherokee County School District
Jonathan Gillentine, Rev. Benjamin Parker School
Jennifer Strachan, Montgomery County Public Schools
Location: Room 109, Level One, MGM Grand Time: Saturday 11/17 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
