PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS  


NATIONAL

National Council of Teachers of English
International Reading Association

STATE 

Florida Reading Association (FRA)

Professional Organizations for Teachers of Reading from the Florida Department of Education Website

• Florida Association for Media in Education
• Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
• Florida Reading Association (FRA)
• Secondary Reading Council of Florida
• Florida Reading Initiative (FRI)
• Florida Literacy Coaches Association
• Reading First
• Florida Book Awards

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FLORIDA COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (FCTE)
Conference  October 17 - 19, 2013     Radisson Resort at the Port, Cape Canaveral http://www.fcte.org 

LOCAL

Lee County Reading Council
http://www.leecountyreadingcouncil.com/

CONFERENCES  

THE CONFERENCE CALENDAR    A database where you can search by year, month, state and more .    

Reading and Meaning, Louis Rosenblatt and Gary Paulsen

Where is the meaning of the text when reading?  In the text, the author?   Louis Rosenblatt showed us the way, and Gary Paulsen said it poetically.    Meaning is made by the reader.  


“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.” 
― Louise Rosenblatt, Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays


If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.” 
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room


And that means. . . 

And why do we read? Pleasure, for Information?

Efferent reading = scientific or public.  The purpose of the reading is focused on learning through reading.

Aesthetic reading = artistic or private. The purpose of the reading is experiencing the text and the literary world created by the author. 

“No two readings, even by the same person are identical. Still, someone else can read a text differently and paraphrase it for us in such a way as to satisfy our efferent purpose.  But no one else can read aesthetically- that is, experience the evocation of – a literary work of art for us” (Rosenblatt, p. 1375).

With the current focus on the Common Core Standards , what is happening to our understanding of the reading process, how and why students reader?  

Creating a Site: A Weebly or Blog Site -- Tutorials and Exploring Pinterest

Check out WEEBLY SITE TUTORIALS
The only limitation is you are allowed 2 sites for free.

A Collection of Tutorials for Weebly 

Collection 2 Tutorials for Weebly 

A Printable Weebly Tutorial

A 21 Page PDF Print Weebly Tutorial

Check out BLOG SITE TUTORIALS

A 19 Page PDF Print Blog Site Tutorial

Tutorials for Educational Blogging

Blogger Tutorials on a Blog Site - Categoried by What You Are Working On

A Collection of Blogger Tutorial that You Can Subscribe to On You Tube

Check out PINTEREST FOR TEACHERS

Edudemic - A Teacher's Guide to Pinterest

Tutorials for Beginners on Pinterest

Check out
One of the resources I have been developing is my Pinterest Site to include a couple of Boards with resources for students in this class.

They are Teaching Reading Pinterest Board, Teaching in General Pinterest Board, Content Area Reading Board and you can check out other boards in general.  I really like the infographics board that I explored lately.

Videos and Podcasts - Strategies Models

Check out these great videos and demonstrations of new strategies.

Videos Comprehension

Stephanie Harvey and Harvey Daniels   short podcast

Chris Tovani  Thoughtful Reading (4 tips)  short podcast

Anchor Charts

Modeling Ways to Think About Text

What’s the Big Idea  Understanding the Author’s Message

Making Prediction and Reading Aloud

Comprehension Strategies Overview

For Younger Students

Lesson Characterisitic of Non-FIction Texts

Questioning Strategies Lessons

Say Something Chart Lesson  Hats

For Older Students

Project Based Learning

Whose Voice, Whose Learning

Whose Voice, Whose Learning?

As students . . . .

The more we ask “How long does it have to be?”

The more we ask “What do you want?”

The more we ask “How can I please you?”
The more we ask “Where’s the rubric?”

The more we ask “What do I need to do?”

The more we ask “What are your expectations?”

As teachers . . . . .

The more we provide step-by –step instructions,

The more we clarify directions,

The more we take other’s standards, benchmarks, rubrics or other assessment tools.
The more we develop rubrics and assessments

The more we use other’s materials, resources, and ideas.

The farther we are from
our expectations for ourselves, our goals, our plans, our thinking.

The bigger the chasm

The deeper the hole

The farther away we are from

LEARNING, GROWING AND THINKING. 

The more SILENT OUR VOICES.

RESOURCES for "Big Ideas" About Teaching Reading

HERE ARE RESOURCES TO CONSIDER IN THINKING ABOUT THE BIG IDEAS RELATED TO TEACHING READING. 

PART 1 of the TEXT     (What do you do in these areas, what do you think you can do better or enhance in these “big ideas” area. 

BUILDING A LITERATE COMMUNITY – p 35 – 36 ways you do this, or can enhance or make it more.
FINDING OUT WHAT STUDENTS ARE THINKING  p 39-40
BOOK SELECTION – (STUDENT CHOICE)  see p 37-38    Reading Workshop HELPING STUDENT CHOOSE  p 64 -74
TEACHER MODELING – See p 32
AUTHENTIC READING SITUATIONS with VARIETY OF GENRES  P 33

Adolescent About Teaching Reading   (article) 

About Comprehension (Article)

Content Area Literacy

SCHOOL WIDE REFORM


Richard Allington Videos

What Does and Doesn't Work Allington (2 min video)

Two Things Good Teacher Do (Allington - 3 min Videos)

Putting Books in Students Hands, Professional Development for Teachers    (Allington - 3 min video) 


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