6th Annual Kansas Regional Reading Recovery Conference February 23, 2004 - Cost, location - Schedule - Keynote Speaker - Featured Speakers - More presenters Location: Memorial Union, Emporia State University Cost: $95 This is an outstanding professional development opportunity featuring nationally recognized speakers with twelve conference sessions for classroom teachers and Reading Recovery professionals. Schedule: 7:15-8:00 am Shuttles run from parking lots (north side of campus to Memorial Union; view campus map) 7:30-8:00 am Registration, refreshments, vendor displays 8:00-8:15 Welcome and Introductions – Dr. Connie Briggs, Dr. Kay Schallenkamp 8:15-9:30 Keynote Address:  Dr. Lester Laminack 9:30-10:00 Break - Book signing, refreshments, vendors, transition to concurrent sessions 10:00-11:15 First Concurrent Session - Lance Gentile - Maryann McBride - Mary Rosser - Suzanne Deweese and Connie Briggs 11:15 -12:30 p.m. Luncheon - Speaker – Norma Cregan, KSDE 12:30-1:45 p.m. Second Concurrent Session - Lance Gentile - Maryann McBride - Flo Thorton-Reid - Suzanne Deweese and Connie Briggs 1:45-2:15 Break - refreshments, vendors, transition to next concurrent sessions 2:15-3:30 Third Concurrent Session - Lester Laminack - Flo Thorton-Reid - Mary Rosser - Suzanne Deweese and Connie Briggs 3:30 p.m. Conference concludes - Shuttles run from Memorial Union to parking lots on north side of ESU campus ^ top of page Keynote speakers Lester Laminack - is a professor and department head at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education. Lester has published many articles and books for teachers, and is the author of two children's books, The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, and Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth. "Making Meaning from Memories: Writing and Reading Memoir in the Elementary Classroom” - Explore how the process of one writer can inform instruction in our classrooms. Author and educator, Lester L., will lead us through the writing of his picture book memoir and share implications for classroom writing instruction. Session: “A Close Study of Writers Craft in Saturdays and Teacakes” - Join Lester on a close study of the writing in his newest book. Learn to Identify the craft then explore and name the purpose for each writing move. And from these learn to generate mini-lessons for your writers. Lance Gentile - has been involved in teaching, teacher training, research, and writing for nearly forty years. He focuses on the development of oral language, second language acquisition, and the social and emotional factors related to language and literacy acquisition. “Responding Effectively to Hard to Reach Children Whose Stage of Oral Language Development Interferes With Accelerated Learning” - Participants learn how to identify stages of language development, infuse language development across each component of instruction, select texts to support each stage of language acquisition and prompt for expansion and refinement of language. “Interacting Effectively With Hard to Reach Children When Stress Responses Interfere with Accelerated Learning” - Identify adverse stress responses at point of difficulty or error. Participants are introduced to the Stress Response Scale based on the research and work of the presenter. They will learn how to respond more effectively to children who perceived learning to read and write as threatening. ^ top of page Featured Speakers Maryann McBride, Reading Recovery Trainer, Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland “To Teach or Not to Teach” - Clay writes that Reading Recovery teachers must make “skilled decisions moment by moment during the lesson.” This session will focus on teacher decision-making across the Reading Recovery lesson. ^ top of page Mary Rosser, University of Maine, Reading Recovery Trainer “Roaming Around the Known: Promoting Powerful Processing from The Start” - In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore a repertoire of teaching practices which power literacy learning from the beginning of a child’s program in Reading Recovery. Participants will view, discuss and analyze video clips or teaching which supports secure, constructive, independent literacy learning as the basis for child’s continued success in reading and writing. ^ top of page Floretta Thornton-Reid, Georgia State University, Reading Recovery Trainer “Tell Me What’s Goin’ On” - Participants will explore orientating the child to a story in a manner that enables the child to step up and meet the challenge of literacy processing on novel text. ^ top of page Betsy Kaye, Texas Women's University, Reading Recovery trainer Dr. Betsy Kaye is a trainer of Reading Recovery teacher leaders at Texas Women's University. Prior to joining the university, she taught elementary students in special education, Reading Recovery and the classroom. Her research interests include exploration of change over time in young student's literacy and early intervention. Her sessions include: 12:30-1:45 p.m. - "Discovering the Power of Roaming Around the Known" - Discovery is a "keynote" of roaming around the known. In this session, participants will explore the early weeks of a child's RR program and learn how opportunities to build fluency on the known can reveal surprising strengths. 2:15-3:30 - "Supporting Strategic Problem Solving over Time" - Reading Recovery teachers must make "highly skilled decisions moment by moment during the lesson" (Clay, 1993. p. 9) to support students' acceleration. In this session, participants will use the Guidebook, video clips, and records to closely explore teaching for effective processing over time in reading. Teacher-student interactions will be highlighted as participants learn how to support and extend student's use of reading strategies. ^ top of page