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Booktalking: Transforming Dormant to Passionate Readers
Nicole Paylor
Creating and delivering great and memorable booktalks can transform dormant readers into passionate readers who crave new books. Making booktalking a daily practice allows students to hear about 180 books each year and enables them to become better consumers of the books they want to read. This session will provide the tools and activities you need to create a vibrant booktalking culture on your campus or in your classroom.
Raleigh-Durham
Booktalking: Transforming Dormant to Passionate Readers
Steve Black
Creating and delivering great and memorable booktalks can transform dormant readers into passionate readers who crave new books. Making booktalking a daily practice allows students to hear about 180 books each year and enables them to become better consumers of the books they want to read. This session will provide the tools and activities you need to create a vibrant booktalking culture on your campus or in your classroom.
Denver
Building a Love of Reading Campus-Wide
Brandon Blom and Todd Nesloney
Book Prom!? Secret Society of Readers?! Literacy-O-Lanterns?! Two administrators–one from California; the other from Texas–will share their journey to focus on building a love of reading campus-wide, and getting rid of rewards and computer-based reading programs.
Universal City
Building a Thriving Reading Culture
Donalyn Miller, Teri Lesesne, and Annie Ward
We all envision a world where children participate in supportive reading communities at school and home, but launching and sustaining a thriving reading culture takes intentional planning and long-term support. In this session, explore the components of successful reading communities and practical suggestions for building this foundation with your students and children.
Greenwich
Building Reading Cultures and Communities Together
LaQuita Outlaw and JoEllen McCarthy
A strong literacy culture is caught not taught. Explore principles of passion that support reading communities and the partnership between principals, literacy coaches, and librarians in building that culture. Discover new titles, tips, and techniques for walls and halls that can immediately energize your classroom and schoolwide reading culture.
Greenwich
Choice Leads to Advocacy
Stacey Riedmiller
Come learn easy-to-implement strategies and instruction for the inquiry-based reading and writing classroom. Learn how to lead a classroom culture where students are in charge of taking on big issues through choice reading and writing.
Raleigh-Durham/Greenwich
Believe in the power of independent reading.