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Wed, May 2, 2012

	Assessment	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
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Workshop: 1064 - How to take, analyze, and use student Running Records to guide formative assessment in your classroom	Workshop: 176 - Using 21st Century Skills in Student-led Book Clubs Symposium: 428 - Short, real-world nonfiction articles combined with collaborative writing strategies strengthen students’ “test taking skills,” as well as evoke student curiosity, engagement, and college skills. Symposium: 119 - Professional learning and leadership: An international resource for the art, craft, and science of disciplinary literacy acquisition and instruction Symposium: 1283 - Celebrating Reader Engagement as a Critical Component of RTI: How to Make It Happen Special Interest Group (SIG): 344 - SIG: Promoting Reading Engagement for Creative and Gifted Students Special Interest Group (SIG): 1324 - SIG: Specialized Literacy Professionals: What's Hot in Literacy: Best Practices in the Age of the Common Core Symposium: 556 - Strategies for Success in Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Modeling, Mentoring and Guiding Learners to Higher Levels of Achievement. K-5.	Workshop: 980 - Using Media Literacy Skills to Teach the Power of Persuasion: Focusing on Mobile Technologies in Education Symposium: 1263 - Nuancing New Literacies: book clubs, videogames, digital stories, and their implications for literacy teaching	Workshop: 1088 - Preparing Struggling Readers for the Demands of the Common Core Standards: Accelerating Learning Gains for Struggling Readers in Elementary and Middle School Symposium: 817 - Differentiated, Evidence-Based, Across-the-Curriculum Interventions for Struggling Readers: Guiding Students to Meet Text Demands During Reading-Group and Content-Area Instruction Special Interest Group (SIG): 825 - SIG: Helping Struggling Readers Succeed: A Presentation of the Disabled Reader Special Interest Group	Symposium: 1073 - Bullies, Brats, and Bystanders: Combating Negative Peer Pressure with Young Adult Literature Special Interest Group (SIG): 347 - SIG: Beyond the Common Core: Pathways to Lifelong Literacy Workshop: 1610 - Infusing Informational Text in English/Language Arts and Reading Classrooms Workshop: 1401 - Guided Highlighted Reading: A Reading Strategy to Scaffold Students to Independent Reading of Difficult and Complex Texts from Common Core Appendix B Workshop: 757 - Contagious Inspiration: Four teachers learn about the recursive nature of writing through collaboration, imitation, and celebration	Workshop: 519 - Happy Birthday, Dear Author: Creating and Implementing an Author Study Program in the Primary Grades Special Interest Group (SIG): 1146 - SIG: Literacy Development in Young Children Special Interest Group Symposium:Supporting the Development of Comprehension in the Early Years	Symposium: 818 - Capacity for Change: Multi-Year, Embedded, Whole School Professional Development in Literacy Symposium: 1691 - School wide reform across states and contexts: Using technology and collaboration to develop instructional leaders and impact student achievement Workshop: 968 - Connecting Literacy and Science Through Talk, Writing and Reading. Participants will see how literacy strategies can be used to deepen science thinking and reasoning.	Workshop: 679 - Connecting Content and Language for English Learners- Combine, Ignite, Fuse: The synergy of language, literacy and science	Workshop: 1363 - Refreshing Literature Circles and Making Text Connections with Foldables Workshop: 162 - Show Me How! Teach Students to Apply Strategies and Skills
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Session: 669 - Text Complexity and the Common Core State Standards: Using Lexile Measures to Gauge College and Career Readiness	Session: 986 - More in Common Than You Think: Using Close Reading and Analytic Writing to Address the Needs of the Common Core IRA Past President: 1720 - Common Core State Standards: Seizing the Moment to Strengthen Your School's Literacy Instruction Session: 1334 - Honoring the Voices of All Students: Multicultural Literature and Social Development Exhibitor Session: 931 - "Tiered" Reader Response Activities for the Common Core Session: 950 - Family Literacy Nights: The Who, What, When, Where and Why to Effectively Plan and Host Family Literacy Nights in Your School Library IRA Board Session: 1734 - Common Core Sense: Literacy Practices to Support the Standards Session: 713 - Windows to the Past: Using Historical Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books to Bring Black History to Life Session: 1269 - Helping Students Comprehend Increasingly Complex Texts: Using "Stepped-up" Small Group Lessons to Increase Agency and Ability	IRA Past President: 771 - Keys to Successfully Implementing the ELA Common Core State Standards	Session: 1139 - Going Multimodal with Reader’s Theater: An Innovative New Approach Combining Effective Differentiated Reading and Writing Strategies to Develop Diverse Learners’ Fluency for Comprehension IRA Board Session: 621 - Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers Session: 537 - Responding to Struggling Readers with a Critical Literacy Intervention: Using Philosophy for Children to Leverage Accountable Talk and Critical Thinking. Exhibitor Session: ES02 - A Roadmap to Improve Literacy with Secondary Students: Helping Struggling Readers Make Dramatic Gains with System 44 and READ 180 Session: 1482 - Independent Reading, Student and Text Leveling, Formative Assessment, Conferencing, and Home Reading Routines Lead Urban Kindergartners to Read on Grade Level: Testimony from the Field	Session: 611 - Roping in Runaway Readers: Engaging Adolescent Learners in Reading and Writing Activities Exhibitor Session: 708 - Strategies for Comprehending Short Complex Informational Texts: Preparing Adolescents to Meet the Demands of the Real World Exhibitor Session: 266 - Effective Vocabulary Instruction for Middle and Secondary Students: The Word Roots Connection	Session: 788 - Learning to Read and Reading to Learn: Non-Fiction Literature and the Common Core, K-2 Session: 525 - PALS in Immigrant Communities: A Bilingual Family Literacy Project with New Canadians IRA Past President: 319 - Using Core Curriculum State Standards in Content Area Thematic Instruction and the Language Arts Block: Motivating and Differentiating Instruction (preK to grade 4)	Session: 1149 - The Power of Visual Learning and Storytelling: Helping young children develop social, emotional, health and safety, and cognitive skills through visual models and within recognizable contexts Session: 868 - Make Every Minute Count: Classroom Management Strategies for All Teachers: A Mentor Teacher's Practical Strategies and Tools that Increase Student Engagement and Enrich Learning	IRA Board Session: 814 - Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in K-6 Classrooms
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM		Special Interest Group (SIG): 513 - SIG: Teachers as Researchers: Transforming Teaching Practices Through Inquiry Special Interest Group (SIG): 665 - SIG: Diversifying Instruction at the Primary, Elementary, and Middle Schools Levels Special Interest Group (SIG): 1389 - SIG Literacy Challenges in Latin America: Studies of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru					Special Interest Group (SIG): 374 - ROUND TABLE SEATING for SIG: Concern for Affect in Reading Education (C.A.R.E.)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM		Featured Research Session: RIP5 - RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: Engaging Books, Engaging Talk, and Engaged Readers: The How and the Why Teaching Edge: TE06 - Powerful English Language Arts Teaching in 21st Century Classrooms	Research Poster Session: RPS6 - Technology in Literacy Education
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM		IRA Staff Session: SS07 - IDCC Workshop
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM		Teaching Edge: TE07 - Interactive Think Aloud Lessons: Surefire Ways to Engage Students and Improve Comprehension
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM		Session: 990 - Putting the Person Back in Personalized Instruction: Using Professional Development to Deliver On-Demand Differentiation Session: 181 - Using PIRLS 2006 to Explore the Emphasis on Teaching Reading Skills and Strategies Internationally Session: 1642 - EngageALL: An Engagement Model of Academic Literacy for Learning in Content-Area Classrooms Cancelled: 1476 - CANCELLED: Confronting the "Full" Page: Guided Writing of Non-Fiction without Plagiarism Co-sponsored Session: 1595 - With Rigor for All: Helping Students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 Meet Common Core Standards for Reading Literature IRA Board Session: 649 - Reacquainting Learning with Understanding: Making a Difference in Reading Comprehension Session: 851 - Reading and Writing AS Content Area Curriculum! More than Adding Activities;Literacy must be the Curriculum. Author Panel: AP8 - AP 8: Graphic Novel Author Panel	Session: 153 - “Ask An Expert:” How to Use Web Tools to Collaborate With Content Specialists Session: 904 - An intervention using speech recognition software: Effects on oral reading fluency for high school LEPs	Session: 1687 - Enhancing Pre-service Teacher Candidates’ Confidence Levels in Teaching Reading Employing a One-on-one Tutoring Practicum Experience IRA Past President: 389 - We could teach everyone to read, but will we?	Session: 410 - Awakens with Tears on Her Cheeks: Teaching Global Young Adult Literature Through a Cosmopolitan Lens IRA Board Session: 866 - The Common Core Standards: Teaching Middle School and High School Students to Comprehend Informational Text Session: 1292 - Reading IS Cool...Creating a Literacy Rich Environment in Middle Schools!	Session: 353 - Can We Fix It? Yes We Can: Building Content Literacy through Content Area Instruction Using Project-based Learning in the Early Elementary Classroom Session: 122 - Harnessing the power of music to boost kindergarteners and struggling first graders in recognizing and writing high-frequency words, using directionality and one-to-one match, and writing messages.	Session: 204 - Probable Passages: Using Story Structure to Write and Revise a Predictive Passage and Enhance Comprehension Session: 1097 - Teaching With Humor: We Remember What We Laugh At Exhibitor Session: 249 - Teaching vocabulary from word roots: An Instructional routine for the elementary grades Session: 341 - Using Basal Readers Effectively: From Dutiful Fidelity to Intelligent Decision Making Exhibitor Session: 797 - Standard 10-Dive deeper in to the important issues emerging out of the Common Core Standards movement: text complexity and range of writing. We will define these issues, and overview examples.	Session: 860 - Understanding the effect of vocabulary on English language learners when building knowledge systematically within and across grades
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM						Featured Research Session: RIP6 - RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: Promising Practices for Emergent Writers: Collaborative Writing, Digital Composing, Concept Mapping, and Science Journals
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM		Luncheon: LL03 - Wednesday Book and Author Luncheon with Christopher Paul Curtis
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM		Teaching Edge: TE08 - The Daily 5: Fostering Independent and Enthusiastic Readers
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Session: 1470 - Using IRA/NCTE Standards for Assessment and the Common Core Standards to Assess Secondary Readers for Learning and Growth	Session: 547 - Transforming the Summer Literacy Program Into a Literacy Camp: Implications for Enriching Classroom Instruction for Struggling Readers and Writers Session: 910 - Helping Students Understand Why Characters Do What They Do: Using the Action Cycle Approach in Literature Discussion Groups Session: 724 - Navigating the Terrain of Academic Writing: Supporting and Empowering Graduate Student Writers Co-sponsored Session: 1730 - Reclaiming Reading: Teachers, Students, and Researchers Regaining Spaces for Thinking and Action (CELT) Session: 1526 - Racial literacy as Deliberate Pedagogy: Helping teachers learn to facilitate discussions of "race” Session: 452 - Celebrate Picture Books as Mentor Text: A Rich Resource to Develop Deep Comprehension and Powerful Writing Session: 1681 - Bringing “real” books back into reading: Using trade books to extend the strategies and skills from core reading program IRA Invited Speaker: IS09 - What Should Be Common in the Common Core State Standards? Session: 837 - The Graphic Novel Classroom: Teaching & Learning with Images Co-sponsored Session: 1598 - NCTE Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award: A description of the criteria for this award and a discussion of the thirty books honored in 2011	Session: 363 - Can We Talk? A Model for Active Reading Comprehension Using Technology.Many Students Enter Secondary schools Lacking the Comprehension Skills to Understand Literature and Content-Area Reading Session: 591 - WikiMedia: Strategies and Resources for Teaching Media Literacy with Web 2.0 Session: 1502 - A Case for Digital Storytelling: How One Teacher’s Literacy Instruction Resulted In “Blood on the River” Session: 1433 - Giving Students A Global Voice And Connecting One Student To Another With Web 2.0 Tools: Creative and Collaborative Choices For Publishing Student Writing and Creating Authentic Online Reading Sources	Exhibitor Session: 148 - Word Warm-ups: Quick Exercises for Word Mastery Session: 738 - Serious Comics: Creating and Using Graphic Books (Novels and Nonfiction) that Empower Visual Learners Session: 1016 - Transforming Literacy Practices, Transforming Lives: How a focus on literacy in 9th grade led to dramatic success in 5 large, urban high schools IRA Board Session: 1569 - Early Intervention for Struggling K-2 Readers and Writers: What Seems to Be Working, and What's Not Session: 143 - Reciprocal Teaching and Partner Read working together for your struggling reader. These user friendly strategies can be taken back to your classroom and used right away.	Session: 534 - Comics in the Classroom: Using Graphic Novels Across the Secondary Curriculum Session: 1076 - Questioning the Author, the World and Ourselves: Reading America's Stories Beyond the Lines		Exhibitor Session: 692 - Differentiated Small-Group Reading Lessons: Strategy-Based Groups in Action Session: 1150 - The Daily5 and You- Are you wondering how to keep your students actively engaged while you are teaching small group lessons or conferencing? Discover how to do this with the Daily5. Session: 144 - Comprehension That Works! Taking Students Beyond Ordinary Understanding to Deep Comprehension Session: 1599 - Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction: Six Guidelines from the Wyoming-Colorado MCVIP Research Team	Session: 779 - Picture This: Engaging English Language Learners in Creating Picture Books to Strengthen Essential Literacy Skills Session: 1464 - 10 Authentic and Scaffolded Writing Lessons for an ELL Writing Workshop to Improve Not Only Writing but Reading, Listening and Speaking Cancelled: 1335 - CANCELLED: The Effects of Dual-Language Reading Curricula on Achievement Outcomes of English and Spanish Learners in a K-5 Title I Two-Way Immersion School: A Case Study	Cancelled: 586 - CANCELLED: Think Like an Author: Creative Writing Strategies From A Professional Novelist Session: 1659 - Integrating Reading and Writing: Using Children's Literature as Model Texts to Study Author's Craft to Develop Critical Writing Skills Session: 1721 - An Integrated Approach to Teaching Reading, Spelling, Phonics, Writing, Proofreading and Editing

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