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	INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION
	ARKANSAS READING ASSOCIATION
	NWARC'S FACEBOOK

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"Sweet" Saturday was held on February 27, 2010. Area in-service and pre-service teachers gathered at Washington Elementary in Fayetteville, Arkansas for a day of professional development and treats. Local teachers and specialists identified as being experts in the field of literacy were invited to present six varied 30-minute informative workshops on relevant topics from elementary to middle-level literacy. Download THIS Adobe PDF file for more information.

Nearly 60 teachers and pre-service teachers gathered in the library for the NWARC meeting.

Debi Smith raffled gifts to attendees.

Jade House happily stopped her presentation for a quick photo opportunity.

Karmen Bell is pictured with some of her undergraduate students, Rebekah Reaves, Heather Hart, and Kayce Mardis.

Kathleen Alessi -Response Journals
Do you need ideas to better prepare your students for the Benchmark without doing test-prep worksheets? Do you want your students to be more engaged in text and assume responsibility ýfor higher-order thinking? By implementing Reading Response Journals in your classroom students are actively thinking, talking, and writing throughout the reading of the text. In this 30-minute session learn some fresh ideas about how to incorporate journals in your literacy block while holding students accountable for their thinking!
Access Reading Response Journals;download THIS Adobe PDF file
Access Reading Response Notebooks;download THIS Adobe PDF file

Heidi Cohen - Literacy in the Information Age
The Internet is a valuable tool for teachers and students alike. It allows students the ‎opportunity to visit far off places, practice skills, and research a wide range of topics. This ‎requires technological literacy which should be a part of any balanced classroom. Participants ‎will be given the opportunity to evaluate a variety of different sites available on the web. The ‎literacy websites chosen for this session were selected to provide teachers with interactive ‎resources of all kinds. Research search engines, benchmark practice, ESL, games, books, and ‎author study sites will be reviewed. Bookmark these great sites to help you in your classroom.
Access Reading Websites; download THIS Adobe PDF file

Jade House - "Figuring It Out" - Vocabulary and English Language Learners
‎Yada, yada, yada! What does that ‎mean? If a native English speaking child ‎encounters 15,000- 30,000 ‎unknown words per year, can you ‎imagine how difficult it is for an ‎English Language Learner? Participants will learn the research ‎behind teaching new words and ‎ways to enhance student ‎understanding.

Grace Kerr
Engaging Middle Level Readers Research has shown that even students ‎who are excellent readers in elementary ‎school can fall behind academically in ‎later grades if literacy instruction is not ‎sustained at the middle and secondary ‎levels. This workshop provides middle ‎school teachers with resources and ‎strategies to assist students with ‎developing preferences for self-‎selected recreational reading and with ‎accessing academic texts more ‎effectively. Participants will be given ‎materials to share with parents and ‎ideas for forming partnerships between ‎the school and home as a means to instill ‎in students a lifelong love of reading.‎

Susan Richmond - Putting Reading Fluency in Perspective
Fluency is described as one ‎of the most important ‎elements that effects how ‎well children learn to read. ‎This presentation will ‎address the research, and ‎norms that address fluency. ‎There will also be a ‎demonstration of the ‎strategies and instruction ‎that will help to make all ‎students more fluent ‎readers.
Access Fluency Practice; download THIS Adobe PDF file
Access Fry List First 100 Words; download THIS Adobe PDF file
Access Fry List Second 100 Words; download THIS Adobe PDF file
Access Fry List Third 100 Words; download THIS Adobe PDF file ‎‎

Kim Sutton, Ed.S.- Reader's Theatre
Reader’s Theater is a wonderful way to allow children to express themselves in a natural way: ‎Through acting! Drama, as many teachers are discovering, is not only fun, it also encourages ‎emotional growth, motivation, and engagement. This strategy has also been effective in ‎improving reading fluency, promoting listening and speaking skills, and transforming reluctant ‎readers into bookworms! During this presentation, participants will learn how to gather scripts, ‎implement rehearsal time into an already cramped school day, create scripts, and have fun ‎watching their students actively engage in the reading process.
Access the PowerPoint Presentation; download THIS Adobe PDF file

Jumpstart's Read for the Record's worldwide campaign raises awareness about the crisis in early literacy through celebrating the joy of reading with children. The Northwest Arkansas Reading Council invited area pre-schools and public schools and to join the millions of record-breakers to read Eric Carle's classic in celebration of the book's 40th anniversary.

We supported Jumpstart's year-round work in America's schools by hosting a public reading at Borders Books in Rogers, Arkansas. Children were able to hear a public reading of The Very Hungry Caterpillar along with other Carle titles.

The campaign's goal is always to set a new world record for the greatest number of people reading the same book on the same day. Due to the efforts of the Northwest Arkansas Reading Council members and officers, we contributed over 4000 participants to Read for the Record 2010!