Reading Conference
Higher education level
The Reading Conference is a great resource for higher education instructors. It not only offers topics of interest to those teaching literacy at college levels, it's also a forum for presenting your research and sharing ideas with other literacy colleagues. The conference also offers a graduate course that allows you to earn master's or doctoral level credit while focusing on literacy issues that matter to you.
Following is a sampling of institute and session topics from last year's conference that relate to subjects of interest to higher education literacy instruction. Topics addressed in the poster sessions, keynote speeches, and virtual presentations may also apply. We will update this list with the upcoming conference details during Spring Semester 2009.
- How to save a life with literacy strategies through the ages
- Giving purpose to independent reading: Conferencing models to increase comprehension
- Hit the remote! Switch channels before they do!
- Motivation to write
- To correct or not to correct? That is the question: addressing the issue of home language versus formal English
- Literature circles: engaging and exciting readers
- Reading for all!
- Reading and study strategies for developmental reading
- Best practice for English language learners
- Understanding multiple literacies
- Literature circles for fiction and nonfiction
