Teachers, Students, and Families Together: Nurturing Literate Communities
Presented in cooperation with the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT)
Harrah's Las Vegas
3475 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Hotel Registration is available online or by phone at 888-458-8471 listed as The Literacies for All Summer Institute. You will have to use the group code of SHTL11 to get the discounted room rate which is $59.00 on Wednesday & Thursday per night and $89.00 on Friday & Saturday per night.
Group room rates are based on block availability until June 20, 2011. A credit card is required at the time of booking and a deposit equal to one night’s room & tax will be charged. A 72 hour cancellation notice is required prior to your arrival date to receive a refund of your deposit.
Register Online at: https://secure.ncte.org/forms/wlu/registration/
Register by Mail with the Registration Form 
Deadline July 15, 2011
Additional Registration Resources including rates and FAQs.
Building Classroom Reading Communities
Thursday, July 21 from 11:45 a.m. -- 6:00 p.m. for $65 (includes lunch)
This preconference program will engage participants in demonstrations of how to conduct retrospective miscue analysis with small groups of students within a classroom setting. Students talking about their miscues and exploring miscues and reading strategies of others establishes classroom reading communities benefiting all readers. By attending this workshop, participants will gain a greater understanding of the reading process and learn ways of encouraging readers to learn with, and from, one another. Organizing more sustainable classroom reading communities and developing strategies for using Socratic Circle techniques in their reading curriculum will be shared. Participants will take away new ways of listening to children read, new lenses of understanding how children learn most by listening and talking to one another as readers, and how to build stronger communities of readers.
Presenters:
Rita Moore, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Victoria Seeger, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
Ernest Morrell, Thursday Opening Session
Mariana Souto-Manning, Friday Opening Session
Kadir Nelson, Saturday Opening Session
Linda Christensen, Sunday Closing Session
Read more about the speakers here.
Just Voices: Literacy and Social Justice
Friday, July 22 from 12:45-2:00 p.m. (tickets required $48.00 per person)
In Las Vegas high schools, teachers and youth engaged in the Just Voices project have discovered what can happen when they have opportunities to interact with “writers of conscience” and to read and grapple with issues of social justice as portrayed by visiting authors and explored in their own worlds. Just Voices teachers will share stories of the impact and power of this project on themselves and their practice, as well as on the youth they teach, many of whom are on the brink of dropping out of school. Come join educators from across the country to discuss and exchange ideas!
Featuring local Las Vegas educators:
Viviana DeArmas, Jane Newton, Elizabeth Strehl, Sydney Venable
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