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| RESERVE THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR. YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS IT! Sam Houston Area Reading Council (SHARC) & Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading (TAIR) FALL CONFERENCE Saturday, October 3, 2009 8:30a to 3:30p The Woodlands High School 6101 Research Forest Drive The Woodlands, TX 77381 Featuring: Dr.Joyce Armstrong Carroll & Dr. Stephen Krashen and breakout sessions throughout the day by exemplary educators Name_____________________________________________________________________________ Home Telephone: ___________________ E-mail: _____________________________________ Grade Level_______ School_______________________________ District_______________________ 6 Hours Professional Development Credit Pre-registration fee: $40 including lunch (Pre-registration deadline September 25) Full-time student and Conroe ISD registration fee: $20 including lunch On-site registration: $50 (no lunch guaranteed) Make checks payable to TAIR and mail to Mindy Butler, 5418 Upper Lake Dr., Humble TX 77346. Purchase orders accepted. Contact melindasbutler@earthlink.net. |
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| Dr. Stephen Krashen Dr. Joyce Armstrong Carroll |
| SHARC and TAIR Fall Conference Saturday, October 3, 2009 8:30 am to 3:30 pm |
| Phone number is 281-333-2598 or 281-772-5981 Fax line is 281-333-423 |
Stephen Krashen, Emeritus Professor of Education
at the University of Southern California, is a
linguist, educational researcher, and activist. He is
best known for developing the first comprehensive
theory of second language acquisition, introducing
the concept of sheltered subject matter teaching,
and as the co-inventor of the Natural Approach to
foreign language teaching. Dr. Krashen has
published more than 350 papers and books,
contributing to the fields of second language
acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He
promotes the use of free voluntary reading as “the
most powerful tool we have in language education,
first and second.” In 2005 Dr. Krashen was
inducted into the International Reading
Association's Reading Hall of Fame and the National
Association for Bilingual Education Executive
Board. His publications include The Power of
Reading: Insights From the Research, Condemned
Without a Trial: Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual
Education, Foreign Language Education the Easy
Way, Under Attack: The Case Against Bilingual
Education, and Three Arguments Against Whole
Language and Why They Are Wrong.
Anything But Reading
Both the popular media and professional literature
are filled with suggestions on how to improve
reading, but the one approach that actually works
is rarely mentioned: provide readers with a supply
of interesting and comprehensible books. Instead,
we are given advice that is dead wrong as a means
of improving reading, advice that leads only to
reading-like, advice that teaches students to use
strategies that are innate or strategies they will
acquire anyway as they read.
at the University of Southern California, is a
linguist, educational researcher, and activist. He is
best known for developing the first comprehensive
theory of second language acquisition, introducing
the concept of sheltered subject matter teaching,
and as the co-inventor of the Natural Approach to
foreign language teaching. Dr. Krashen has
published more than 350 papers and books,
contributing to the fields of second language
acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He
promotes the use of free voluntary reading as “the
most powerful tool we have in language education,
first and second.” In 2005 Dr. Krashen was
inducted into the International Reading
Association's Reading Hall of Fame and the National
Association for Bilingual Education Executive
Board. His publications include The Power of
Reading: Insights From the Research, Condemned
Without a Trial: Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual
Education, Foreign Language Education the Easy
Way, Under Attack: The Case Against Bilingual
Education, and Three Arguments Against Whole
Language and Why They Are Wrong.
Anything But Reading
Both the popular media and professional literature
are filled with suggestions on how to improve
reading, but the one approach that actually works
is rarely mentioned: provide readers with a supply
of interesting and comprehensible books. Instead,
we are given advice that is dead wrong as a means
of improving reading, advice that leads only to
reading-like, advice that teaches students to use
strategies that are innate or strategies they will
acquire anyway as they read.
In her fifty-year career, Joyce Armstrong Carroll
has taught every grade level from primary to
graduate school. In the past twenty-eight years,
she has trained teachers in the teaching of writing
as Co-director of the New Jersey Writing Project in
Texas, now Abydos Learning International. A
nationally known consultant, she has served as
President of the National Council of Teachers of
English and on numerous NCTE committees. With
her husband Edward E. Wilson, Dr. Carroll co-
authored Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing,
Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud, and the
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar: Communication
in Action Series: Grades 6-12. Other publications
include Jesus Didn’t Use Worksheets: A 2000-Year-
Old Model for Good Teaching, Conclusions: The
Unicorns of Composition, Dr. JAC’s Guide to
Writing with Depth, The Best of Dr. JAC, Dr. JAC’s
Reading and Writing Workshop Primer, Dr. JAC’s
Phonics Friendly Book, Authentic Strategies for
High-Stakes ELA Tests, Inspiring the Classics
through Children’s Literature and more than fifty
articles.
Reading and Writing Lessons from the Brain
"We were never born to read," says Maryanne Wolf
in her stunning book Proust and the Squid. Come
hear how human beings invented writing and
reading and what these lessons have wrought over
the centuries. Carroll will punctuate her talk with
15 brain factoids. Come hear, participate, and
grow dendrites!
Dr. Carroll’s mantra is, “If you teach it, they will
learn.”
has taught every grade level from primary to
graduate school. In the past twenty-eight years,
she has trained teachers in the teaching of writing
as Co-director of the New Jersey Writing Project in
Texas, now Abydos Learning International. A
nationally known consultant, she has served as
President of the National Council of Teachers of
English and on numerous NCTE committees. With
her husband Edward E. Wilson, Dr. Carroll co-
authored Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing,
Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud, and the
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar: Communication
in Action Series: Grades 6-12. Other publications
include Jesus Didn’t Use Worksheets: A 2000-Year-
Old Model for Good Teaching, Conclusions: The
Unicorns of Composition, Dr. JAC’s Guide to
Writing with Depth, The Best of Dr. JAC, Dr. JAC’s
Reading and Writing Workshop Primer, Dr. JAC’s
Phonics Friendly Book, Authentic Strategies for
High-Stakes ELA Tests, Inspiring the Classics
through Children’s Literature and more than fifty
articles.
Reading and Writing Lessons from the Brain
"We were never born to read," says Maryanne Wolf
in her stunning book Proust and the Squid. Come
hear how human beings invented writing and
reading and what these lessons have wrought over
the centuries. Carroll will punctuate her talk with
15 brain factoids. Come hear, participate, and
grow dendrites!
Dr. Carroll’s mantra is, “If you teach it, they will
learn.”