Workshop Materials and Handouts (Creating Support for Effective Literacy Education) - Tapa blanda

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Connie Weaver is a teacher, writer, and speaker on whole language, reading process, and related topics. She is a Professor of English at Western Michigan University and a former director of the Commission on Reading of the National Council of Teachers of English. Recently she has co-founded Michigan for Public Education, a citizens' group advocating educational equality and excellence. She has also received the Charles C. Fries award for outstanding leadership to the profession. Connie has done keynote presentations focusing on myths about whole language, success for all students in the whole language classroom, a balanced approach to reading, and understanding the phonics-whole language controversy. Topics for workshops and/or breakout sessions have included phonics in whole language classrooms, understanding and educating students with an attention deficit disorder in whole language classrooms, reconceptualizing dyslexia through miscue analysis, theme exploratiLORRAINE GILLMEISTER-KRAUSE, a teacher for more than twenty-five years, teaches thirty miles west of Montreal, Canada, in a one-room schoolhouse, which received the NCTE Center of Excellence in English language Arts Award in 1989. She has been active in the whole language movement and has been a member of the board of directors of the Whole Language Umbrella.GRACE VENTO-ZOGBY has taught children ages six through thirteen for seventeen years. She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Whole Language Umbrella and IRAs Whole Language Special Interest Group, and she is founder of the Utica Area TAWL. Currently Grace is a reading specialist at Sauquoit Valley Elementary School, Sauquoit, New York.