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Creating an Independent Reading Canon for Black Boys
Kim Parker
Attendees will explore the illustrious history of texts for black boys (1970s-present). This session will provide strategies to build classroom libraries that draw on their students’ cultural backgrounds, use a proposed “canon” as a foundation to develop a transformative independent reading program for black boys, and develop a plan for creating meaningful literacy lives
for students.
Raleigh-Durham/Greenwich
Creating Passionate Readers
Pernille Ripp
How do you protect or ignite a passion for reading in all of your students when it seems like outside forces stand in your way? In this session, we will explore practical ideas for how to create a passionate reading environment where all students feel like they belong. Chicago/Raleigh-Durham/Universal City
Developing Identity and Empathy through Independent Reading
Chad Everett
During this session, participants will step inside Chad Everett’s classroom as he models how independent reading can be harnessed as an opportunity to help students foster positive self- identities and develop empathy and understanding for others. Participants will explore how to move beyond simply providing access to diverse texts to critically examining how to incorporate diverse texts within their instruction.
Chicago/Denver
Empowering Readers Within and Beyond Walls
Andy Plemmons
In this session, we will explore family book clubs, genre ed libraries, student-developed collections, collaborating with classrooms beyond your school, and other methods for empowering students’ voices through literacy and developing a global community of readers.
Universal City
Engaging Middle School Readers
Donalyn Miller with Teri Lesesne in Chicago
Too many children express a lack of interest in reading as they move into middle school. Whether our middle school readers have lost their reading motivation or have never felt this spark in the rst place, it is never too late to engage children with reading. In this session, explore strategies for engaging middle school readers and preview titles with high interest to middle schoolers. Chicago/Denver/Raleigh-Durham
It Takes a Village: Working Together to Create a School Filled With Readers
Colby Sharp and Sue Haney
Get a bird’s-eye view of a reading year at Parma Elementary School. Learn how this Michigan school promotes reading through innovative means, such as author visits, book birthdays, booktalks, independent reading, classroom libraries, read-alouds, assembly read-alouds, book holidays, and more. Chicago/Universal City
Lights! Camera! Action!: Using Video To Cultivate Authentic, Joyful Reading Lives!
Brad Gustafson and Jennifer LaGarde
Jennifer and Brad will share how video can be used to cultivate authentic reading communities where: student voice is ampli ed, reading is celebrated as a joyful pursuit, students and teachers are engaged in authentic, meaningful conversations about books and reading, and technology is seen as a tool for growing readers, rather than a distraction from learning.
Denver
Believe in the power of independent reading.