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Mon, Apr 30, 2012

	Assessment	IRA Council Activity	Literacy and Learning	Literacy and Technology	Struggling Readers	Teaching Adolescent Learners	Teaching Early Literacy and Beginning Readers	Teaching Elementary Learners	Teaching English Language Learners	Teaching the Relationship Between Reading and Writing	Other
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM			General Session: GS01 - Opening General Session Speaker Dr. Steve Perry
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM			Featured Research Session: FR1 - The IRA Literacy Research Panel: Big Ideas, Literacy Needs, and National Priorities
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM			Research Poster Session: RP1 - Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Teaching Edge: TE01 - Exemplary Reading and Writing Practices: Raising Achievement and Sustaining Results							Research Poster Session: RP1 - Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
11:00 AM - 1:45 PM	Symposium: 138 - Making the Most of Writer’s Workshop: Conferencing with Students Keeping the Common Core in Mind Workshop: 320 - Using Descriptive Feedback to Improve Student Learning: Effective Strategies to Enhance Assessment 'For' and 'As' Learning Symposium: 674 - Understanding Comprehension through Miscue Analysis: Supporting Students to Read Proficiently		Symposium: 343 - Readin', Writin', and 'rithmetic Revisited Through the Common Core Standards Symposium: 1219 - New Neighbors: Using Children's Books to Build Bridges Between New Arrivals and Long-term Communities Symposium: 773 - Implementing Partner Reading and Content, Too (PRC2): Differentiating Instruction and building students' confidence and abilities in informational reading and learning Workshop: 1671 - Retreading Tired, Flat, and Worn Out Graphic Organizers: Integrating Poetry and Academic Art in the Content Areas Symposium: 1718 - Putting the Common Core in Context: Intentional uses of culturally relevant children’s literature in standards-based instruction Workshop: 288 - Literacy Coaching at the Secondary Level: Promising Practices for Success Symposium: 1404 - Genre with Purpose: Reading and Writing Narrative, Informational, Procedural, Persuasive, and Dramatic Genres K - 8 Symposium: 1402 - Literacy Coaching: Supporting Literacy Instruction for Diverse Student Populations, a Symposium of the Urban Diversity Committee	Symposium: 1253 - IRA TEACHERS' CHOICES COMMITTEE presents: Celebrate Teaching:Books come alive with Technology!	Workshop: 1101 - Using RTI to Promote Whole-School Change in Literacy Workshop: 936 - Catching Falling Readers: 20 Minutes Per Day ©2011 Workshop: 1455 - What Can Word Callers Teach Us So that We Can Teach Them? – Insights from Good Decoders Who Struggle with Comprehension and Interventions to Help Them Make the Shift to Meaning-Focused Reading	Workshop: 1192 - Reading, Writing, & Thinking through a Historian Lens: Integrating Disciplinary Literacy into Social Studies Instruction Symposium: 474 - Historical Fiction and the Common Core Standards: Unraveling Fact from Fiction Workshop: 1478 - Turning critical literacy skills into scientific literacy: helping science students in differentiated classrooms evaluate and use multiple sources.	Workshop: 1430 - Better Books for Guided Reading: Exploring the Ways Text Selection Relates to Comprehension, Word Recognition, and Student Independence Symposium: 822 - Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Early Literacy Instruction: Designing Instruction, Preparing Teachers, and Recognizing Programs of Excellence	Symposium: 629 - "There are Many Ways to Learn to Be a Writer:" Celebrating Writing with a Lunch-Time Writers Club Symposium: 271 - Using Poetry for Word Study, Fluency, and Comprehension Instruction Workshop: 1099 - Engaging Every Child in Literacy: Using KEEN Differentiated Learning strategies to help students love learning and achieve higher in the classroom! Workshop: 874 - Constructing Meaning with a Focus on Generating Inferences: A Working Model, Research Evidence and Practical Classroom Applications to Support the Differentiation of Comprehension Instruction Symposium: 1550 - Nonfiction Books Bring to Light Those History Makers Who Might Have Been Left in the Dark: In a Fun Way	Workshop: 1487 - Promoting positive instruction for adolescent immigrant English Learners: Examining cultural discourses around immigration and scaffolding instruction through content literacy strategies Symposium: 1116 - Improving Instruction for Academic Language and Literacy Development: A Capacity Building Approach	Workshop: 1203 - The Art of Reading and Writing: Creative Strategies for Teaching the Recursive Nature of Reading and Writing for Supporting Standards-Driven Curriculum Symposium: 423 - “Involving the School Community and Strengthening Learner Outcomes in Literacy through Authentic Projects including Young Authors' Programs, Writing Fairs, Vocabulary Bee/Parade &Wax Museums”
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM			Co-sponsored Session: 323 - Children's Choices: Visual Literacy Through Graphic Novels & Picture Books Equals Winners
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Exhibitor Session: 160 - Read Naturally's Reading Assessments: A Foundation for an RTI Model	Council Activities: 963 - Making Your First IRA Convention Productive and Enjoyable	Session: 216 - Using Children's Literature to Address Bullying, Foster Empathy & Create a Safer Learning Environment in the Classroom IRA Staff Session: SS06 - What Works for Literacy? Lessons from European Literacy Research and Projects IRA Board Session: PP01 - The Art of Making Text Explicit: Show and Tell Co-sponsored Session: 302 - Challenges in Preparing Teachers of Reading: A Look Back and a Look Forward Session: 1438 - Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Current Issues, Concerns and Considerations for Classroom Instruction and Academic Research Session: 1663 - Reading Green Across the Curriculum: Environmental Literacies IRA Staff Session: SS03 - Literacy Initiatives of the International Development in Asia Committee (IDAC) Councils and Affiliates Session: 1048 - Selective Tradition and Availability of Multicultural & Health Literature in Schools: Implications for Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Co-sponsored Session: 1731 - Exploring Relationships Between Research and Classroom Practice NCRLL Session: 920 - Using Leveled Text to Differentiate Instruction for Students in the Content Areas Session: 745 - Collaboration: The Key to Implementing and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities IRA Past President: PP05 - A Conversation with Kenneth Goodman	Session: 951 - eThemes, Newsy, and This Week in Newsy: FREE Online Resources for 21st Century Learners Session: 782 - The 21st Century Literacy Workshop -Using iPads to promote reading, writing and collaboration in the primary classroom. Session: 1609 - Making Ourselves Heard: Using Web 2.0 to Engage Adolescents in Literacy Learning	IRA Board Session: 1732 - The Next Step in Vocabulary Instruction Session: 715 - Mystery Passages and Manipulatives: Active Learning Techniques that Build Essential Comprehension Skills IRA Past President: 1091 - From Struggling Readers to Successful Readers: Purpose and Practice	Session: 1251 - Powerful, Playful Approaches to Poetry	Session: 1296 - Role-Taking in Small Book-Discussion Groups By First Grade Boys in a Single-Gender School: A Sociocultural Perspective. Session: 1114 - Early Literacy: Rethinking the Reading Development from PreK-3rd GradeIn this session, we explore the research, best practices, and lesson learned for developing PreK-3rd grade literacy success. Session: 619 - Reading Workshop Group Curricular Piloting Project: Workshop for ALL Learners K-3 in Public, Private, and Charter Schools, and in Urban and Non-Urban Settings	Session: 1559 - Making Language Visible in the Mathematics Classroom: Effective Use of Singapore Math Strategies Session: 201 - Vocabulary Instruction: From Research to Classroom Practice for Non-ELL and ELL Elementary Students IRA Past President: 500 - Reclaiming Comprehension Session: 1604 - For the Love of Words: Engaging Elementary Students in Active Word Study		Session: 941 - Reading Like a Writer & Writing Like a Reader: Facilitating Students to Interconnect Their Reading & Writing Spanish Session: 1643 - La comprensión y recepción de la lectura crítica literaria en estudiantes universitarios de la Licenciatura en Letras
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM			Featured Research Session: FR2 - Literacy Instruction for K-12 Students Living in Poverty Featured Research Session: FR3 - Computer Analyses of Texts and the Readers’ Cognitive and Emotional States as They Read	Featured Research Session: FR3 - Computer Analyses of Texts and the Readers’ Cognitive and Emotional States as They Read
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM			Featured Research Session: RIP1 - RESEARCH INTO PRACTICETeacher as Researcher Grant: Research on Literature and Writing Instruction Luncheon: LL01 - Monday Primary Literature Luncheon featuring Peter Reynolds							Featured Research Session: RIP1 - RESEARCH INTO PRACTICETeacher as Researcher Grant: Research on Literature and Writing Instruction
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM			Research Poster Session: RP2 - Literacy Instructional Practices					Research Poster Session: RP2 - Literacy Instructional Practices		Research Poster Session: RP2 - Literacy Instructional Practices
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Session: 1109 - When Texts Get Complex: Assessing Comprehension, Crafting Goals, and Getting Students to the Next Level.		Session: 945 - Disciplinary Literacy and the Common Core: Wisconsin's Vision for bringing Literacy to life in ALL subjects IRA Past President: 309 - Making Sense of the Common Core State Standards Session: 1095 - Poetry and Reciting: How Immersion in Poetry Enhances Reading, Writing and Learning in the Elementary Classroom Session: 1100 - Creating the “GRLS: Girls Reading Literature Society” Program: A University/Library Partnership Focused on Extracurricular Literacy for Underserved Girl Readers Session: 445 - Teaching and Celebrating Writing Across the Curriculum in the Context of Common Core State Standards Exhibitor Session: 923 - SAE International's A World In Motion K-3 Literacy Based STEM Education Program IRA Invited Speaker: IS01 - Talk About Understanding:Enhancing Students’ Understanding through Discourse	Session: 1451 - Using the SORAB To Discover and Explore the Online Reading Skills and Dispositions of Middle School Students	Session: 1009 - Unlocking the Alphabetic Code for Struggling Beginning Readers: Explicit Phonemic Alphabetic Connections Exhibitor Session: 1729 - Only Connect: Helping Your Students Make Connections Through Audiobooks	Session: 554 - Celebrating Schoolwide Adolescent Literacy Success: Literacy in Context (LinC) Generates Powerful Results for Comprehension of Expository Text IRA Board Session: 1459 - An Inquiry into the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy: How Connections with NSES Science Teaching Standards Energize Disciplinary Teaching and Learning, Grades 6-12	Session: 390 - Nurturing Emergent Literacy Skills in Young Learners (Early Childhood) Session: 626 - The Top 10 Reasons to Teach Babies and Toddlers to Read and Engage Literacy Learners from Birth to Age 4 Session: 449 - Comprehension in the Air: Using the Oral Story as a Mentor Text for Teaching Comprehension Strategies in the Primary Classroom	IRA Past President: 600 - Maximizing Reading Motivation in the Age of Common Core Standards Cancelled: 1143 - CANCELLED: Nurturing Voluminous Vocabularies: Engaging Students Who Live in Poverty in Active Word Learning Session: 878 - Think Outside the Book--Bringing Nonfiction Alive through Hands-On Projects and Activities that Engage Readers and Make Them Want to Learn More	Session: 326 - Implementing RTI With English Learners	Session: 664 - Untangling Embedded Ideas in Complex Sentences and Text Structures: Teaching Comprehension to Meet Today's Challenges Session: 459 - The REAL Heroes' Journey: Using Nonfiction Stories about Children in the Civil Rights Movement to Teach Social Justice and Narrative Arc
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM		Council Activities: 966 - Celebrating Leadership
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM			Featured Research Session: RIP2 - RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: Culturally Diverse Children's and Young Adult Literature in a 21st Century Classroom					Author Panel: AP2 - AP 2: Early Literature Author Panel		Featured Research Session: FR4 - What are the Recommendations for the Future of Research on the Reading and Writing Connection
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM					Teaching Edge: TE02 - When Readers Struggle in the Intermediate Grades: Teaching That Works				Featured Research Session: FR5 - English Learners Panel Discussion: Current Research and Impact of Common Core Standards
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM				Dissertation Research Poster Session: RDP1 - IRA Outstanding Dissertations							Dissertation Research Poster Session: RDP1 - IRA Outstanding Dissertations
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM										Special Interest Group (SIG): 477 - SIG: Language Experience Approach to Literacy
3:00 PM - 5:45 PM			Workshop: 509 - Developing Global Civic Responsibility and English Language Development Through International Literature and Social Action Special Interest Group (SIG): 1352 - SIG Writing to Meet the Language Arts Common Core State Standards Workshop: 1379 - The Daily5 and Cafe Menu: Making it work for you! Get ready to change the way you teach reading. Foster excitement, while still teaching the basics, using Gail Boushey and Joan Moser's model. Special Interest Group (SIG): 982 - SIG: Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading (OTER) Program and Annual Meeting Workshop: 1620 - Using Reading, Talk, and Writing to Support Scientific Understanding: Dynamic and Interactive Strategies for Helping Your Students Meet the Common Core Standards Symposium: 392 - Using Data to Accelerate Literacy Achievement: The Story of Two Schools Special Interest Group (SIG): 1247 - SIG: Nurturing Young Literacy Lives To Make a Difference in the World Symposium: 722 - Defending Contemporary Literacy Research to Tough Audiences Special Interest Group (SIG): 1634 - SIG Concerned Educators of Black Students: The Implementation of Innovative and Enriching Strategies to Facilitate the Process of Building of Life-Long Readers Symposium: 296 - Developing a State Literacy Plan: Pennsylvania's Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Plan Special Interest Group (SIG): 769 - SIG: Leaders of ALL Ages: Working Together - Learning from Each Other Special Interest Group (SIG): 1330 - SIG International Partnerships for Critical Thinking/Active Learning	Symposium: 1616 - Literacy 2.0 Goes to Second Grade: How Teachers Engage Students in Designing and Collaborating with Digital Tools Workshop: 1121 - International, USA/New Zealand Collaboration Achieves Accelerated Progress in Middle Years Literacy Scores - join this workshop to see how and why. Special Interest Group (SIG): 557 - SIG: Middle School Reading: Critical Thinking, Literature, and Technology in the Middle School Classroom: Using technology to support literature circle conversations Symposium: 1212 - Beyond the Printed Word: Audiobooks and Digital Literacy, an interactive symposia highlighting the positive effects of integrating audiobooks into the classroom curriculum	Symposium: 1580 - Engaging Different Learners: Can’t We Foster Inclusive Literacy? Workshop: 478 - Setting Up and Managing an Effective RtI Lab for Early Reading Intervention Symposium: 1373 - Essentialities of Instruction: Struggling Readers, English Language Learners, Autistic, and Learning Disabled students, Finding Keys for Engagement	Workshop: 1025 - Accessing the Inaccessible: The Power of Multiple Approaches to Content Area Instruction Workshop: 960 - Sustaining Strategic Readers: Techniques for Supporting Content Literacy, Grades 6-12 Workshop: 1230 - Guided Reading in the Middle Grades: A Concise and Powerful Approach to Differentiated Reading Instruction for Grades 5-9	Workshop: 488 - So You're Planning To Adopt: Choosing and Using a Core Reading Program, K-2	Symposium: 330 - The Differentiated Difference: The Tale of Two Schools Workshop: 744 - Using Information Text in the Elementary Grades: Teaching Text Structures in Trade Books, Core Reading Programs, and Content Area Text Books to Improve Knowledge Acquisition and Comprehension Workshop: 938 - Meeting the Challenges of the Common Core: Teaching Text Features in the Elementary School Classroom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Session: 1272 - The Literacy Coach's Game Plan: Utilizing formative assessments to improve teacher collaboration and student learning Session: 462 - The Dynamic Learning Maps Assessment: Supporting Access to Literacy for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities		Session: 1029 - Using multimodal texts to enrich disciplinary literacy: Elementary and secondary perspectives in science and history Session: 1140 - Why There’s No Such Thing as Teacher-Proofing: How Teachers Adapt Prescriptive Lessons for More Equitable Reading Instruction IRA Staff Session: 696 - Reading Research Quarterly: Future Directions Exhibitor Session: 1591 - Celebrating Teaching: Engaging Readers, Developing Content Knowledge, and Teaching Content Literacy Skills with Quality Nonfiction Books Session: 1181 - Creating a Balanced Literacy School: The dynamic duo of the Literacy Team and Grade Level Teams to support and enhance school wide success in literacy Session: 455 - Spelling – the last frontier? An exploration of the disconnect between theory and practice in spelling pedagogy. IRA Past President: 908 - Engaging the disengaged Teenager in Academic Literacy Co-sponsored Session: 454 - Celebrating Teaching: Influencing the Literacies of Children and Youth	Session: 1703 - You Want Me to Blog in PE? A Study of How Adolescents Skillfully Make Connections between In-School Learning and Out-of-School Living IRA Staff Session: 1319 - ReadWriteThink.org Presents: Engaging Learners With “Games” in the Elementary Classroom	Exhibitor Session: 1465 - Bringing Joy Back Into the Classroom with Extensive Read Alouds Session: 597 - Differentiating Reading Instruction for Success with RtI: Interactive Tools, Targeted Lessons and Tiered Activities Session: 139 - Motivating the Unmotivated Through Student Engagement Author Panel: AP3 - AP 3: Reluctant Readers Panel Session: 127 - Close the Reading Achievement Gap Through Summer Reading Session: 587 - Sharply Increasing Reading Motivation, Comprehension, and Fluency Using a Powerful Recording Technique	Session: 1244 - Three Big Questions in Vocabulary Instruction for Content-Area Adolescent Literacy: Which Words Should I Teach? How Should I Introduce Them? How Do I Design a Flexible Vocabulary Journal? Session: 540 - When Content Reading Makes No Sense: The Challenge Facing Adolescent Readers and their Teachers	Exhibitor Session: 495 - Improving Phonemic Awareness, Listening, Speaking and Literacy using the Interactive Response to Intervention (RTI) tool: FONEMZ®, with students of all ages, including at risk and disabled learners IRA Past President: PP02 - The Presentation of Early Literacy Activities which Enhance the Effectiveness of Reading and Writing Instruction for Preschoolers	Session: 1416 - Teaching With Laughter: Engaging with Humor Session: 1622 - Enhancing Visual Literacy: Reading the Visuals in Picture Books Session: 1644 - New Insights About Students with Comprehension Problems: Let's Focus on Connecting Ideas within a Text	Session: 1216 - Similarities and differences in the reading comprehension strategies of Chinese and English readers: Implications for Chinese/English bilingual children	Spanish Session: 1405 - La lectura y la composición escrita del género narrativo en estudiantes universitarios para el aprendizaje y desarrollo de la escritura. Una experiencia compartida en el aula
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM			Research Address & Awards: RA1 - The Role of Disciplinary Literacy Instruction: Delivering and Expanding on the Common Core State Standards
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM			Session: 1086 - Making Comprehension Count—in Reading Classrooms and on Tests Session: 1716 - Ideation as Transmediation: A Strategy Lesson of Technology-Enhanced Content Learning Spanish Session: 1429 - Lectura crítica de géneros académicos en la educación universitaria. Transformación de la posición de los estudiantes frente al saber Session: 1206 - Transformative Reading: Applying Mezirow's Transformation Theory to Reading Instruction Session: 627 - Fostering Engagement and Content Knowledge of Literacy Instruction at the University Level through Collaboration and Promotion of Accountability Session: 207 - Collaborating to Engage Readers: Learn How Librarian and Teacher Partnerships Can Increase Reading for Pleasure by Incorporating Book Clubs, Author Visits and Author Skypes in Your School IRA Invited Speaker: IS03 - Teaching Reading with Pizzazz!	Session: 1607 - Common Core Standards, Computers & Content Literacy: Strategies for Answering the Burning Questions of Disciplinary Teachers About Using the Digital Universe to Meet the New Standards Exhibitor Session: 1214 - Vocabulary on the Go: How Technology can Transform Word Learning Co-sponsored Session: 807 - Expanding Early Literacy Experiences Using Technology Session: 362 - Reading Workshop 2.0: New Texts, New Lessons, New Understandings	Session: 663 - Struggling Readers and the Common Core State Standards: How Can I get Them College and Career Ready? Session: 791 - "Handy" Strategies for All Readers: Basic core reading strategies are correlated to physical manipulatives enabling students to effectively transfer strategies independently using a Helping Hand.	Session: 1108 - Instructional renovations: Addressing the mismatch between readers' abilities and characteristics of content area texts Session: 865 - “What If Normal Isn’t the Only Way to Be?”: A Critical Analysis of (Dis)ability in Young Adult Literature Session: 970 - You don’t understand; I’m not a reading teacher—I teach math!	Exhibitor Session: 126 - Read Naturally's GATE: Direct Instruction for Phonics, Fluency, and More! Session: 331 - Simple Sane Solutions to Build Fluency and Vocabulary in Seconds by Implementing Research-Based Activities in Creative New Ways Cancelled: 1670 - CANCELLED: Evidence-based Approaches to Writing Instruction for Young Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children	Session: 659 - Traveling Around the World Through Children’s Literature Session: 694 - Vocabulary Framing: Supporting Student Vocabulary Learning and Language Use in a Multiphase Vocabulary Instruction Project (MCVIP) Session: 670 - Effects of Two Programs (Reading Only and Reading-Music) on the Development of Vocabulary and Morphosyntaxic Abilities of Second Graders Session: 1551 - Differentiation: An Avenue By Which All Learners Can Utilize Higher-Order Thinking Skills	Session: 1564 - Discovering Signal Words: Teaching Upper Grade English Learners to Comprehend "True" Chronological Orders of Events and Cause/Effect Relationships in Content Area Texts Session: 1491 - Choice, Conversation and Comprehension: Gains made when ELL's choose leveled, culturally relevant text; engage in daily, wide, independent reading; journal and discuss content in 4th - 7th grades.	Session: 1117 - Do You Really Need a Separate Writing Block? Cancelled: 340 - Cancelled: Writing About Reading: Using Response Journals to Support Reading Comprehension in an Urban Third Grade Classroom
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM			Session: 1657 - Poetry Olio

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