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Welcome to the 2019 Literacy Association of Tennessee Annual Conference in Murfreesboro, TN!
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Sunday, December 8
 

3:00pm CST

Charting with the Chicks: Connecting Across the Contents
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Participants will learn ways to incorporate movement into their classroom while using interactive anchor charts that utilize pictures, songs, poems, and other types of stimulus to make connections and create/prove inferences. By adding these activities to their instruction, their content will be spiraled through the year, allowing students to retain information by accessing their knowledge in a way that encourages them to see their curriculum in the world around them.
Speakers
ES
MM

Sunday December 8, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm CST
Mirabella B
  FEATURED SPEAKER - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

3:00pm CST

"Too Many Letter Sounds...Too Many Phonics Rules...Too Many Sight Words" How to Use Brain Science as a Roadmap to Fast-Track Phonics for Reading!
Did you know that the brain has a backdoor for accelerated learning that’s easily hacked into? Using brain science as a road map, discover how to target daily reading and writing instruction to “backdoor” social and emotional learning systems that transform hard phonics skills into child’s play! Take advantage of learning loopholes rooted in brain plasticity with powerful “backdoor” teaching tools that will leave you armed and ready for Monday morning!
Speakers
avatar for Katie Garner

Katie Garner

Author, Keynote Speaker, Marenem, Inc
Katie Garner, M.Ed. (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an international keynote speaker and literacy consultant with thirty years of experience working in classrooms around the world, and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2019 3:00pm - 4:50pm CST
Broadlands A, Broadlands B
  FEATURED SPEAKER

4:00pm CST

Accelerating Access to Complex Texts: Close Reading for Diverse Learners
Students are expected to read closely and to comprehend deeply to meet the higher expectations of the standards. In this interactive session, participants will have an opportunity to become familiar with engaging activities that address close reading of authentic complex texts, critical thinking, collaborative conversations between students, and vocabulary-building. Participants will explore practices that address closer examination of texts through collaboration with the purpose of uncovering deeper meaning. Emphasis will be placed on developing students who will become confident, proficient readers.
Speakers
avatar for Barbara Andrews

Barbara Andrews

Senior National Literacy Consultant, Benchmark Education
Barbara Andrews has been a classroom teacher, Reading Recovery teacher, Literacy Facilitator, and district administrator for 27 years. Barbara worked extensively with English learners during her entire teaching career. As a retired educator, Barbara is now a national literacy consultant... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2019 4:00pm - 4:50pm CST
Cambridge B
  FEATURED SPEAKER

4:00pm CST

Building Vocabulary with the Chicks
Teachers must intentionally work to build their student’s vocabulary constantly throughout their instructional day. Our training includes brain-based vocabulary activities that naturally build student language without using vocabulary lists and dictionary definitions. Participants will leave with a multitude of new, active, and exciting activities to fit the needs of all students, including their English Language Learners
Speakers
ES
MM

Sunday December 8, 2019 4:00pm - 4:50pm CST
Mirabella B
  FEATURED SPEAKER
 
Monday, December 9
 

10:00am CST

Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Literacy
Unlock potential and accelerate learning for every student, powering progress toward college and career readiness. Learn how Achieve3000 can bring literacy instruction into every classroom to build key reading skills while developing disciplinary knowledge and vocabulary.
Speakers
BB

Monday December 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Mirabella H
  BREAKOUT SESSION, ES

10:00am CST

Plan, Prep, and Pump Up your family engagement!
Family Involvement holds such a valuable part in
student success. Come learn how to plan, prep, and
pump up your Family Engagement events that brings
in the crowds. Guild Elementary has an average
school population of 700 students and average
450-600 in attendance at their Family Engagement
Events. Discover how to develop stronger family
partnerships where students and families learn
together through free, fun, engaging opportunities for
families to learn and grow together.
Speakers
avatar for Kim Harkreader

Kim Harkreader

NCLA Chapter Chair, Guild Elementary
Passionate about all things literacy engagement

Monday December 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Broadlands A
  BREAKOUT SESSION

10:00am CST

"Too Many Letter Sounds…Too Many Phonics Rules…Too Many Sight Words..." How to Use Brain Science as a Roadmap to Fast-Track Phonics for Reading!
Did you know that the brain has a backdoor for accelerated learning that’s easily hacked into? Using brain science as a road map, discover how to target daily reading and writing instruction to “backdoor” social and emotional learning systems that transform hard phonics skills into child’s play! Take advantage of learning loopholes rooted in brain plasticity with powerful “backdoor” teaching tools that will leave you armed and ready for Monday morning!
Speakers
avatar for Katie Garner

Katie Garner

Author, Keynote Speaker, Marenem, Inc
Katie Garner, M.Ed. (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an international keynote speaker and literacy consultant with thirty years of experience working in classrooms around the world, and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy... Read More →

Monday December 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Oakleigh C
  FEATURED SPEAKER

10:00am CST

Charting with the Chicks: Connecting Across the Contents
Participants will learn ways to incorporate movement into their classroom while using interactive anchor charts that utilize pictures, songs, poems, and other types of stimulus to make connections and create/prove inferences. By adding these activities to their instruction, their content will be spiraled through the year, allowing students to retain information by accessing their knowledge in a way that encourages them to see their curriculum in the world around them.
Speakers
ES
MM

Monday December 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Mirabella B
  FEATURED SPEAKER

10:00am CST

LAT Diversity Committee Book Showcase & Grant
This session will highlight the importance of using diverse books in the classroom, showcase books in this year's LAT Diversity Committee Book Grant, and describe the grant application procedures. Two general themes of books will be discussed: books with differently-abled characters and books, in which characters are change-making women.
Speakers
LD

Monday December 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Cambridge B
  FEATURED SPEAKER

11:00am CST

Vocabulary Enactments: A Key to Unlocking Meaning
Students of all ages can develop facility in learning vocabulary using various text sources through the use of vocabulary enactments. Enacting vocabulary words can offer children access to understanding powerful ideas and can help them bridge the language in the texts to make real-worlds connections. At the same time teachers can extend learning by having their students participate in literacy processes, such as discussion, storytelling, retelling, and purposeful writing that support the use of the vocabulary in context. In this session the presenters will first demonstrate and then engage the audience participants in activities that will support teaching targeted vocabulary taken from four texts. Using different genres, a demonstration of enactment strategies will occur through storytelling, song and movement to support authentic integration of literacy processes. Additional follow-up literacy strategies appropriate for classroom use will be presented to extend comprehension of the vocabulary words introduced.
Speakers
PJ

Pamela Jukes

Higher Education - Western Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University
Dr. Pamela Jukes is a Professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the School of Teacher Education. She brings rich experience to her teachers and teacher candidates as she taught elementary school before... Read More →
DJ

Dr. Judy Pierce

Professor, Western Kentucky University
Storyteller: Motivational Key Giver of Tales
BJ

Monday December 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Broadlands B
  BREAKOUT SESSION

11:00am CST

"Too Many Letter Sounds…Too Many Phonics Rules…Too Many Sight Words..." How to Use Brain Science as a Roadmap to Fast-Track Phonics for Reading!
Did you know that the brain has a backdoor for accelerated learning that’s easily hacked into? Using brain science as a road map, discover how to target daily reading and writing instruction to “backdoor” social and emotional learning systems that transform hard phonics skills into child’s play! Take advantage of learning loopholes rooted in brain plasticity with powerful “backdoor” teaching tools that will leave you armed and ready for Monday morning!
Speakers
avatar for Katie Garner

Katie Garner

Author, Keynote Speaker, Marenem, Inc
Katie Garner, M.Ed. (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an international keynote speaker and literacy consultant with thirty years of experience working in classrooms around the world, and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy... Read More →

Monday December 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Oakleigh C
  FEATURED SPEAKER

11:00am CST

Low-Verbal and Non-Verbal Strategies to Maximize instruction for Newcomers and Struggling Readers
This session will be a hands-on demonstration of low-verbal and non-verbal strategies that can scaffold instruction for newcomers and struggling readers. This is an invited session by LAT Diversity Committee.
Speakers
SW

Monday December 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Cambridge B
  FEATURED SPEAKER

3:10pm CST

The Heart of the Matter: Facilitating the Magic of Literacy among English Language Learners
There is a saying that goes, “The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.” The connection between this saying and the challenges faced by teachers dealing with students from different linguistic (and cultural) backgrounds will be the center of this presentation. At the beginning of the session, participants will take on the position of “the other” and evaluate their attitudes and dispositions related to working with English Language Learners. This will be followed by presentation of research-based information on these group of learners in today’s classrooms in the US, which will be supported by real-life stories. Specific strategies will also be discussed and/or modeled throughout the session. Towards the end, participants will collaboratively generate different measures to effectively open the magic of, and through, literacy for the ELLs.
Speakers
RF

Ruth Facun-Granadozo

Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University
Multilingualism makes me build strong connections

Monday December 9, 2019 3:10pm - 4:00pm CST
Mirabella I
  BREAKOUT SESSION

4:10pm CST

A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
Just as an artist paints a picture with a brush, a writer paints a picture with words. In order for students to be literate today, they must be able to manage texts in many forms. In this session you will encounter new and inventive techniques to inspire your students to use images to help them to reveal layers of meaning in all types of reading including picture and chapter books, content area literature, images, poetry, and even informational text. Discover how to engage all of your students, no matter what their reading levels may be, in practicing authentic meaning-making. High-quality literature can provide an access point into engaging instruction that exemplifies how to use comprehension strategies, develop core knowledge and expand your students’ vision of the world. All students deserve rich literacy experiences that embody excellence and equity. In this session will use Trevor Bryan’s The Art of Comprehension ‘Access Lenses’ to help unlock your students’ full potential and Dr. Jan Richardson’s Seven Steps for Selecting High-Quality Picture Books to help all students connect and expand their knowledge of different cultures, experiences and concepts found in other content areas.
Speakers
SH

Sharron Hofer

District Literacy Coach K-5, Wilson County Schools
Reading comprehension, joyful unraveling of meaning.
CB

Cathy Birchett

District Literacy Coach K-5, Wilson County Schools
Passionate lifelong leaner, educating our future.
M

Missy

District Literacy Coach K-5, Wilson County Schools
Love it. Learn it. Live it.

Monday December 9, 2019 4:10pm - 5:00pm CST
Oakleigh C
  BREAKOUT SESSION
 
Tuesday, December 10
 

9:30am CST

Bridging School and Community Literacy Strategies to Support Language Acquisition
Current research on key literacy strategies will be presented. Using that research, participants will identify ways they can connect their current literacy strategies to support ELs language acquisition through family engagement.
Speakers
DC

Dr. Crystal Cook

Advisor, Family and Community Engagement, Shelby County Schools
Animated educator focused on family literacy!
HP

Tuesday December 10, 2019 9:30am - 10:20am CST
Mirabella B
  BREAKOUT SESSION

10:30am CST

Hands-on Multisensory Activities with Music, Movement, and More
Participants will learn about differentiated instruction with examples of effective multi-sensory strategies utilizing music, movement, and centers to raise literacy achievement of all students who might have learning difficulties, including those with ELL, articulation, or autistic problems, and high poverty populations.
Ready Reading also provides for those students who are ready for acceleration beyond the regular classroom instructional materials.
Examples of actual lessons and of student work in core areas help you implement ideas from this session for successful teaching, whether as a stand-alone phonics/beginning reading program, as a replacement for inadequate phonics instruction in your basal reading program, or as a supplement to materials mandated for use in your school.
Speakers
FC

Tuesday December 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am CST
Mirabella H
  BREAKOUT SESSION, ES

10:30am CST

Reading for Meaning with Read Live
Learn how to develop fluency, support vocabulary, and promote comprehension by combining three powerful, research-based strategies: teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. Learn how to meet standards and accelerate the achievement of developing and struggling readers. These effective strategies are demonstrated using Read Naturally’s web-based software program, Read Live.
Speakers
BD

Tuesday December 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am CST
Mirabella G
  BREAKOUT SESSION, ES

11:30am CST

Are picture books really for middle and high school students? Yes, they are!
Imagine you walk into a K-5 classroom and see fascinating picture books and think to yourself, I want to read that book! If you have that feeling of enthusiasm when you read to your students, your students will be excited as well. This session will provide you information on how to utilize picture books to teach the elements of literature in the middle/high school classroom. The presentation will include modeling and explanation of strategies to effectively implement picture books in your middle/high classroom. Participates will delve into high-level picture books, wordless picture books, and picture books pertaining to social studies and STEM. Additionally, attendees will engage in collaborative discussions on how to best apply picture books in a middle/high school classroom. Come and learn how to effectively incorporate picture books in your middle/high school classroom and leave with ideas that you can use in your teaching.
Speakers
KW

Kelli Wisener

7th and 8th grade ELA teacher , Obion County Schools
Happy life, loving family, teaching reading

Tuesday December 10, 2019 11:30am - 12:20pm CST
Mirabella B
  BREAKOUT SESSION
 
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