2009 National Reading Recovery & K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference
February 7 – 10, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio

Mark your calendar for this outstanding offering of professional development.

2009 Reading Recovery Conference

View at Your Convenience.  An easy, low-cost way to further your professional development from your home, office or conference room.

Negotiating the Literacy Lives of Boys through Building a Literacy Community
Presenter: David Booth, professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

An expert in this field, David Booth helps educators understand issues involved in boys’ literacy learning and then provides proven methods to engage them as readers and writers. This powerful presentation includes a downloadable handout and encompasses the following topics:

• Connecting Home, School, Community
• Helping Boys Become Print Powerful
• Assisting Boys in Becoming Writers
• Structuring Literacy Events for Students

All you need to view this 60-minute, on-demand webcast is a computer with high speed internet access. For more information, or to register, click here:
http://rrcna.org/development/web_conference/Literacy_Lives_Of_Boys.asp.

Webinars – Live
Live online presentations on timely topics include opportunity for questions and answers.

Coming this fall – For Reading Recovery Teachers and Teacher Leaders
Janet Bufalino and Shannon Henderson discuss how teachers use prompts to keep children learning at their cutting edge. Teaching for Powerful Processing