Tentative 2008
Kentucky
Reading Association Conference Schedule
The Galt House Hotel,
Louisville, Kentucky
Thursday, September 25, 2008
3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Registration
4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Exhibitor Set -Up
4:30 p.m.-6:00
p.m.
Pre-Conference Institute
Reception
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Pre-Conference Institutes (Choose
one; $20 pre-paid with
registration; limited to 120 participants in each session; 50 in Laura Robb session
attendees must be registered for the conference)
Grades K-12:
Linda Diamond,
Author and
CEO of Consortium On Reading Excellence (CORE) will be presenting from her new Vocabulary
Handbook.
Grades K-6:
Valerie Ellery, Author of IRA publication
Creating Strategic Readers, will
be presenting instructional methods organized around the five essential components
of reading.
Grades 4-12:
Laura Robb,
Author, teacher,
and literacy coach will be presenting her new Adolescent Reading/assessment
program,
Teaching Reading in Middle School.
Friday, September 26, 2008
7:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Registration
7:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Exhibits Open
8:15 a.m. –
9:30 a.m.
General Session: Linda Diamond
will present:
Literacy
Equity
9:30 a.m.-
9:50 a.m
Exhibit Browsing and Author Signing
9:50 a.m. -
12:00 p.m.
Extended Workshops:
Featured Speakers: Valerie Ellery
Laura Robb
Linda Gambrell
9:50 a.m.- 10:50 a.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speaker:
Nancy Polette
Jacquie McTaggart
Marie Bradby
10:50 a.m.- 11:10 a.m.
Exhibit Browsing and Author Signing
11:10 a.m.- 12:10 p.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speakers - TBA
12:15 p.m.- 1:40 p.m.
Kentucky Bluegrass Awards Luncheon ($10
pre-paid
with registration; limited to 400 participants;
attendees
must be registered for the conference)
Featured Speaker
– TBA -
Bluegrass
Award Winning Author
1:50 p.m.-
2:50 p.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speakers – TBA
2:00 p.m. –
4:10 p.m.
Extended Workshops:
Featured Speakers: Linda Gambrell (1:00-3:00p.m.)
Freddy Hiebert
2:50 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Local Council Networking
3:30 p.m.-4:30
p.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speakers:
Nancy Polette
Jacquie McTaggart
Marie Bradby
4:45 p.m.-5:45
p.m.
General Session:
Keynote Speaker: Laura Robb
6:00 p.m.
Author
Signing
Evening on Your Own: Explore
Louisville
!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
7:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Registration
8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Exhibits Open
7:15 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
General Session:
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Allington
9:50 a.m.–
12:00 p.m.
Extended Workshop Sessions:
Featured Speakers: Dick Allington
Janet
Allen
Freddy
Hiebert
9:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speakers: Allison Hart
Marie Bradby
D. Anne Love
Nancy Polette
Jacquie McTaggart
Marie
Mitchell & Mason Smith
10:50 a.m. -11:10 a.m.
Exhibit Browsing and Author Signing
11:10 a.m.-12:10
a.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speaker - TBA
12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Author’s Luncheon – Have lunch and rich
discussion with
a variety of children’s/young
adult authors. ($10.00 pre-paid
registration, limit 200 participants)
12:40 p.m.
-1:40 p.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Featured Speakers – Allison Hart
D. Anne Love
Marie Mitchell & Mason Smith
1:40 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
Exhibit Browsing and Author Signing
2:00 p.m.-3:15
p.m.
General Session: Professional
Learning Communities
Keynote Speaker: Taffy Raphael
2:00-3:15
Janet Allen (CCLD Closed Session)
3:15 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
Author Signing and Closing Remarks
Really Good Door Prizes- Must be present
to win!