You can download the Program for the Fall Leap into Literacy Conference and plan your Breakout session selections in advance. Registrations are due by Sept. 26.

1. LEAP into LITERACY II Strategies to take your students
CONFERENCE
up, up, and away!
REGISTRATION 8:15am - 08:45 am
Check-in
Registration for Sessions A & B
Breakfast
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION OF 8:45am - 9:00 am
GUEST SPEAKER
Lesley Roessing, Director, Coastal Savannah Writing Project
GUEST SPRAKER, Bryan Marshall 9:00am - 10:00 am
AGENDA
“Multi-Genre, Multi-Media Reading & Writing”
BOOK SIGNING & BOOK SALE 10:00am - 10:25 am
Speaker Book Signing October 1, 2011 8:15 AM –12:45 PM
Book sale sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Armstrong Center, Savannah, GA
BREAK-OUT SESSION A 10:30am - 11:30 am
BREAK-OUT SESSION B 11:45am-12:45 pm
CSWP INFORMATION SESSION 12:45pm - 1:00 pm
Fall Leap into Literacy II Conference
Director and Associate Directors will be available for questions about hosted by Coastal Savannah Writing Project
professional development opportunities and the 2012 Summer Institutes. http://cswp.armstrong.edu
https://facebook.com/coastalsavwp
Guest Speaker: Bryan Marshall, Songs of Freedom
“Multi-Genre, Multi-Media Reading & Writing”
S TA F F
Director Lesley Roessing
Associate Director Donna J. Loyd
Dr. Marshall is co-author and member of the creative team of Songs of Freedom, an interdisciplinary,
Associate Director Barbara Grimm multi-media, interactive, educational project about the Underground Railroad. The project uses text,
video, storytelling, and contemporary music to engage students and enrich learning.
Associate Director, Technology Julie Warner
Administrative Assistant Carmen Singleton

2. Comics in the Classroom to Motivate Writers (K-6) Room 104 Free Writing to Build Fluency and Confidence in Room 104
Teachers are well aware that not all students come to class loving to Jessica Gamache Jessica Clemmons
& Vicki Kirkland
Student Writing (Grades K-6) & Betsy Martin
write. This workshop will explore the benefits of using comics to Free writing has been a successful, well-researched strategy in the writ-
engage reluctant writers at all grade levels to find ideas for writing, ing classroom for over forty years. The use of free writing—in all
organizing thoughts thinking critically, focusing on a topic, and content areas and at all grade levels-- increases fluency in writing. This
experiencing writing success. session will demonstrate how free writing can inspire even budding
writers to express ideas and thoughts with confidence.
Observation Stations to Develop Informational Room 107
Drama to Inspire Dialogue and Character Room 107 Sonya Tokerud-
BREAK-OUT SESSION B
Writing (Grades 1-8)
BREAK-OUT SESSION A
Heidi Lamb Hoelscher
Development in Writing (All Grades) Long before children enter a classroom, they have honed their skills of
Students can learn to add sparkle and life to their fiction writing! This observation—an essential ingredient in good writing. This session will
session will explore the use of dramatic improvisation as a strategy to demonstrate the use of “observation stations” to provide young writers
develop fictional characters and to create lively character dialogue in with the time and place for looking closely at details in nature and to
students’ writing. record their observations in words and pictures. Information on publish-
ing children’s nonfiction writing will be included in this session.
Wordless Texts to Help Students Conceptualize New Room 124
Christina Aaron Reader’s Theatre to Increase Reading Fluency Room 124
Vocabulary Words (Grades 1-8) LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! The use of Reader’s Theater has Donna Ward
Requiring students to “memorize new vocabulary words” rarely allows
students to take ownership of new words. This workshop will focus on the proven to be an exciting motivator of reading. The “show” begins with
use of collaborative writing to respond to illustrations in wordless picture participants’ performing in a Reader’s Theater. Strategies and resources
books or in a digital storyboard format. Through collaborative writing, for classroom use of this strategy will be provided. What’s the best
students learn to contextualize new words and to write an original text. This part? Students will actually look forward to the next story they are
strategy allows for differentiated instruction and is applicable in all content
areas and grade levels.
Differentiating Language Instruction by Writing for Room 125
Mentor Texts to Enhance Students’ Point of View Room 125 Deidre Ward
Caroline Phillips Authentic Audiences
and Voice in Writing (All Grades) & Paulina Tawil Real writers write for a specific purpose. Authentic, functional, writing
The use of literature, specifically picture books, can enhance students’ gleans a platform of uniting people in a caring open environment of
writing at all levels. This presentation will focus on strategies to pro- learning. By arranging and allowing students to write for authentic
mote the development of strong voice and unique points of view in purposes and audiences, teachers can truly differentiate language in-
students’ writing. struction and make student writing matter.
Room 126 Logos, Pathos, & Ethos to Develop and Improve
The Writer’s Notebook: Improving Voice in Student Room 126
Lisa Sumner Persuasive Writing (6-12) Nickie Nolasco
Writing (All Grades) Teachers often wonder how to prepare students for a high-stakes writing
The Writer’s Notebook changes lives! With the use of Writer’s Note- assessment and at the same time continue best practice methods. In this
book in the classroom, both teacher and students will grow as writers. workshop participants will learn how to integrate the study of argumen-
Specific strategies for implementing the Writer’s Notebook as well as tation and persuasive writing into daily lessons. Through applying Aris-
the Writing Workshop approach will be provided. Writer’s Notebook totle’s logos (logic), pathos (emotion), and ethos (personal experience),
mundane test preparation plans can be transformed into meaningful
is useful and adaptable for all grade levels and content areas.
What Are They Reading? A Review of Popular Meeting Suite
Connecting Readers with Text Writing in Poetry in Two Meeting Suite
Donna Pinckney Adolescent Lit and Ways to Hook Reluctant Readers Lesley Roessing
Voices (Grades 5-12)
Martin Teachers need to be familiar with literature that students will read and
Student writers often find it difficult to engage with a text and its char- methods to entice students to read more. Presenter will introduce YA
acters. This presentation will demonstrate how the use of poetic dia- novels of diverse genres, reading levels, and interest levels and model
logue (or poetry in two voices) can ease student writers into making different ways to introduce these books to your students.
meaningful connections with the characters, real or fictional, in the
text. Resulting poetry reveals a depth of understanding as well as
identification with the text.
TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHERS T O IMPRO VE T HE T E ACHING OF LIT E RACY