MRA Conference Adolescent Literacy Track

If you work with adolescents, you may want to follow the Adolescent Literacy Track at the MRA Conference. Here are our recommendations for sessions that should be of interest to literacy educators who work with adolescents.

Presenter (s)	Title of Session	Time	Day of Session
Thursday
Patricia Kelley, Lisa Rizoli, & Andrew Tomaski	Using the Workshop Model for Literacy Acquisition in All Content Area Classrooms (5-8)	10:00 AM -11:00 AM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Mary Ann Cappiello, Erika Dawes, Shannon DeLello, Gary Harrison, Samantha Loh, & Kellie Tingle	Transitioning to Text Sets (K-8)	10:00 AM -11:00 AM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Donalyn Miller	Conferring with Readers: Finding the Focus (all)	11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Katherine K. Frankel, Jennifer Rabold, & Susan Fields	Authentic Writing Across Disciplines in Secondary School (6-12)	11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Amanda Grundel	Literacy in Motion: Strategies for Getting Secondary Students Up and Moving While Reading (6-12)	11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Jeff Anderson	Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences, Grammar, & Beyond (5-10)	1:00 PM- 2:30 PM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Joan Sedita	Reading and Writing from Sources (K-12)	1:30 PM -2:30 PM	Thursday, April 6, 2017
Friday
Mass Association for College & University Reading Educators (MACURE)	Research Roundtable	10:00 AM-11:00 AM	Friday, April 7, 2017
Raymond Pape	Close Reading and the New Literacies (9-12)	10:00 AM-11:00 AM	Friday, April 7, 2017
Jenn Manak, Amanda Charchafliah, Tania DeSousa, Alison Kennedy, Janine Meagher, & Meg Spada	Action Research in Literacy Education: For the Love of Literacy Teaching and Learning (all)	11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Friday, April 7, 2017
Vicki Jacobs	Teaching for Inquiry: What’s Literacy Got to Do With it? (5-12)	11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Friday, April 7, 2017
Bindy Fleischman	Exploring the USBBY 2017 Outstanding International Books List (preK-12)	1:00 PM- 2:30 PM	Friday, April 7, 2017