TARA 2011 Speakers:

Breakout session:

Gail Carson Levine will discuss her nonfiction book for children, Writing Magic - how she came to write it and how she still uses it in writing workshops. She’ll reveal the origins of several of her novels and provide a sneak preview of upcoming books.

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• Session 1:
  Awakening the Writer through Writing Workshop

• Session 2:
  Inspired to Write: Helping Students Find Purpose, Elaborate on Ideas, and Use Interesting Language in Their Writing

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• Keynote Summary: “Ten Reasons to be a Teacher”

• Breakout Session: “Read Aloud Strategies for the Non-Fiction Text"

• Breakout Session:  “Read Aloud Strategies for the Young Reader”

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•  القراءة والخصوصيّة الحضاريّة: كيف نطوي صفحة موروثاتنا الخفيةReading and cultural determinism: how to fight back against our soft inheritance

•   استخدام دروس القراءة كقاعدة للمهاراتReading the world in a grain of sand: using reading as a skills platform

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•     Book Leveling System in Arabic   تصنيف مستويات كتب أدب الأطفال

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• Session 1: Motivating Middle School Writers

• Session 2: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

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• Session 1: (In English) Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures (All levels)
• Session 2: تطبيق استراتيجيات كيجن للتعلم التعاوني "جميع المراحل" – باللغة العربية
• Session 3: (In English) Morning Meeting And Literacy (K- 8)

• Aspects of literacy development: Oral language and family involvement

• The Art of Storytelling in Reading Development

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• Session 1: The Dog in the Wood – Writing a Novel from Family Memoir

• Session 2: “Wanting is just another kind of hunger” –
  Inspiration and Challenges of Writing a Book set in

• Reading like a Writer
  
  The writing you get out of your students can only be as good as the classroom literature that surrounds and sustains it. This workshop will help teachers give their students a precious gift; books and authors to use as models for their own writing. Participants will return to their classrooms with a structure to teach students how to Read like a Writer and an extensive bibliography of mentor texts to support the Lucy Calkins writing curriculum

• Content First: Reading with Purpose

• 86 Types of Text: Real Demands on Real Readers

• How to Rewrite Text (Without Really Rewriting it)