Literacy Pre-Institute
    Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
    9:00 am - 5:00 pm, McKimmon Center

    Pre-registration for the symposium and the literacy institute has closed. No on-site registration.

Keynote Address: Dr. Judy Cheatham Dean of Adult Education Director of Graduate Programs in TESOL, Greensboro College "A Family Affair: What K-12 Teachers Should Know about Family Literacy and the LEP Child"

Keynote Address: Dr. Debbie Linville Assistant Professor of Education Coordinator of Elementary Education Salem College "Collaborative Literacy Learning and the Development of English Language Learners' Literate Identities"

Breakout Sessions for elementary school educators:

Supporting Strategic Reading and Writing in ESL Early Literacy Groups

Beth Brinson, Kenansville Elementary School, Duplin County Schools

Please help me teach these young ESL children to read and write. Show me how to make my teaching meaningful and interesting while actively involving my students. Help me link listening, speaking, reading and writing in order for my students to acquire literacy.

Putting the Pieces Together: Key Components of a Literacy Workshop

Dr. Debbie Linville, Salem College

English language learners flourish in classrooms where a rich array of meaningful literacy experiences and authentic learning opportunities are offered on a daily basis. In order to enable America’s newcomers to become functionally and joyfully literate, a variety of whole-class, small-group, and individual instructional options are necessary. Guiding principles and practices of a comprehensive literacy workshop model will be the focus of this session.

Shared Reading and the English Language Learner

Cynthia Hovis, Lincoln County Schools

Instruction through shared reading can be used successfully with English language learners of all ages. Learn strategies to teach skills that can be taught through shared reading:  how to make your instruction visual and interactive and how to use the technique with older students.

Breakout Sessions for middle and high school educators:

Older Non-Readers: Starting ESL with Students Who Have Never Read

Dr. Joe Riggs, Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Schools

This is nuts and bolts, here’s (almost) everything you need to do it, presentation to begin ESL reading and writing instruction for older non-readers. Leave with materials and methodology to teach with confidence. No crayons.

The Values-Centered Classroom: From Compliance to Engagement

Claudia Haskins, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

By choosing content based on universal themes and life changing questions, ESL teachers can motivate and actively engage English Language Learners in their own literacy enhancement. Strategies to advance literacy will be presented; participants will share their own experiences in how how they choose and use values-centered content.
 

Survival Skills vs. Content Area Support:  What's a Teacher to Do?

Dr. Judy Cheatham, Greensboro College

This interactive workshop will address the issues involving literacy  development in middle and secondary ELL students.  Our goal will be to take the seven skills needed in reading and apply those to both survival skills and the content areas.