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2009 Secondary Reading Council Conference
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Join us for a Reading Safari! All participants are invited to the Awards & Author Luncheon on Saturday. |
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ReLeah Cossett Lent, author of Engaging Adolescent
Learners and Literacy Learning Communities, will explore how to develop embedded professional development using professional learning communities as a vehicle for ongoing study and staff development. Remember "reading across the curriculum?" In the 21st Century, reading is no longer a compilation of strategies that works equally well in science, social studies, math and English. Instead, reading is a tool that differs according to purpose, text, and context. ReLeah Cossett Lent, author of Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking and Learning in the Content Areas, will show how reading supports academic study that deepens thinking and engagement in all content areas. Whether you are teacher, coach, or administrator this session will engage and motivate you to work more effectively with all young adult readers. SRC will make every effort to have these books and the new title, Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking and Learning in the Content Areas available for purchase and autographing. |
Terry Trueman was born on December 15, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, but grew up in Seattle. He attended the University of Washington, where he received his B.A. in creative writing. He also has an M.S. in applied psychology and an M.F.A. in creative writing, both from Eastern Washington University. The father of two sons, Henry and Jesse, Terry Trueman makes his home in Spokane, Washington, where he has lived since 1974. His novel, Stuck in Neutral, was a Printz Honor recipient. Inside Out, his second novel was released in August 2003. In October of 2004, his third novel Cruise Control was released -- a companion to Stuck in Neutral that tells brother Paul McDaniel's intimate side of the story. Hodder Books released Swallowing the Sun, which follows a teen's heroic efforts to save friends and family after his Honduran village is destroyed by a devastating mudslide, in October of 2003 (only in the UK). And No Right Turn, Trueman's fourth US and fifth all-around novel. Trueman's hobbies include his Sea Ray boat and his 1976 Corvette Stingray, and his Corvette, fiery red! One of his heroes is poet Charles Bukowski. He considers Terry Davis and Chris Crutcher two invaluable mentors. For more about Terry and his books, please go to http://www.terrytrueman.com/index.htm |
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SRC members who heard Kelly Gallagher speak at the 2008 SRC Conference have asked for more “Gallagher on writing.” In response, we have requested that he return this year to our Orlando venue. We are grateful and excited that Kelly will provide sessions on both reading and writing at the SRC 2009 Conference. He will use his newest book (to be released in March 2009) as a focal point for his session on reading, "Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It". We will make every effort to have his new book and others available for signing. Kelly Gallagher is a full-time English teacher at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California, where he has taught twenty-two years and a former co-director of the South Basin Writing Project. He is the author of Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for the Middle and High School, Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, Teaching Adolescent Writers, and Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Read more about Kelly Gallagher: www.kellygallagher.org |
Alane Ferguson was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1957. She attended the University of Utah and Westminster College where she studied journalism. Later, Alane became interested in writing for children, mostly, she says, to follow the example of her mother, successful author Gloria Skurzynski. Her mother has written over fifty-seven books for children, while Alane is currently completing her thirty-second. Alane and her mother co-authored a series for National Geographic. Their novel, Wolf Stalker, was the first work of fiction National Geographic had published in its as of then 109 year history. Wolf Stalker was nominated for the 1998 Mystery Writer's of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award and the newest and 13th book in the series, Night of the Black Bear, was launched in spring of 2007. A recipient of the 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award as well as the Belgium's Children's Choice Award for her young adult novel Show Me the Evidence, Alane was also a nominee for her third young-adult mystery, Poison. She received a 2007 Edgar nomination for her young adult novel, The Christopher Killer, the first in the Sleuth Forensic Mystery series. Alane won the Children's Crown Classic Award for Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid, the American Bookseller's Association's "Pick of the List" for her picture book entitled The New Pet, and has been on numerous ALA Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Readers and Young Adult's Choice list. To learn more about Alane and her novels go to her webpage at http://www.alaneferguson.com/index.html or blog with her at http://alaneferguson.blogspot.com/ |
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Enrique A. Puig has over 25 years of teaching experience and is the Director of the Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Center, a project of Just Read, Florida, at the University of Central Florida. His expertise in literacy education and coaching has been called upon by colleagues in school districts across the country and at the Ohio State University, Texas Tech University, Purdue University, and the University of Central Florida. He has presented at national and international conferences. The Florida Department of Education has recognized him as a Title I Distinguished Educator. Enrique has co-authored The Literacy Coaching: Guiding in the Right Direction and The Literacy Leadership Team: Sustaining and Expnading Success. |
Becky Bone is a National Literacy Consultant for the Scholastic Classroom & Library Group and consults with teachers, literacy coaches, principals, and district level administrators nationwide. As a formerteacher, Becky worked with all levels of students including struggling and advanced readers and writers in the Central Florida area. She has also served as Curriculum Coordinator, and was voted Teacher of the Year in 1997. Becky has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Central Florida, National-Louis University, and Southern College. She was a national presenter/facilitator for Janet Allen’s “It’s Never Too Late” literacy institutes, and has presented district-wide keynote addresses for teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators. In addition, Becky has presented at national conferences including IRA, NCTE, and NMSA, as well as the Lexile National Conference. Becky has also been a featured speaker at local, state, and regional conferences. An avid reader and writer, Becky is a Teacher-Consultant for the Central Florida Writing Project where she also served as an instructor for the summer writing project. She has also attended the University of New Hampshire’s Reading and Writing Program summer institute. Becky has been published in NCTE’s Voices from the Middle, and Scholastic’s Administrator Web site. |
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