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

Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

The newest blog post from Literacy Lines, the Keys to Literacy blog:
Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Submit an Article to the MRA Primer!!

Please consider submitting a manuscript to the next issue of the MRA Primer. The topic is Disciplinary Literacy, and we encourage you to submit articles relevant to adolescents!

Manuscript Submission Guidelines 

Deadline: March 1, 2017

The Primer welcomes original contributions on all facets of reading, language arts, and literacy education. Guidelines are as follows:

• Manuscripts are limited to no more than 6,000 words including references and other material (tables, charts, etc.) 
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced in 12 point font and should be saved as Microsoft Word documents 
• Manuscripts should be prepared according to the style specified by the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) style manual 

Each manuscript should include a cover sheet containing (a) the manuscript title, (b) the author’s name, affiliation, position, preferred mailing address, email address, telephone number(s), and fax number. No identifying information should appear elsewhere in the manuscript.

Submit a manuscript to Jo Ann Thompson: jothompson25@comcast.net by March 1, 2017.

Adolescent Literacy Resources from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Adolescent Literacy (link to the full issue here)

DESE writes the following in their latest issue of Teachers' Top 3:  Readers have asked for resources related to literacy and adolescent literacy in particular. Here are a few suggestions that might be helpful: On ESE's humanities web page, you'll find links to the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read and Poetry Out Loud; the National Writing Project and its local counterparts in Boston, Buzzards Bay, and Western Massachusetts; and the Massachusetts Reading Association. The National Council of Teachers of English has a web page devoted to high school. ASCD's "Educational Leadership" publication frequently focuses on literacy, and one edition included this article on "Supporting Older Students' Reading." AdLit.org offers multimedia resources. If you're looking for a book to keep on hand, one staff member recommends "Strategies That Work," by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis. Have a favorite adolescent literacy resource or suggestion? Please share it on Twitter with the hashtag #top3fromESE!

Secondary Reading Interest Group of the ILA

Get the latest information and resources from the Secondary Reading Interest Group of the International Literacy Association via our newsletter here.

Mass Reading Association Conference

See the updated brochure at http://massreading.org/conference/.

Request for Participants to Participate in Secondary Literacy Research

Hello,

My name is Rachelle Savitz, and I am currently working on my doctorate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, under the direction of Dr. Richard Allington.  My national dissertation study focuses on teachers’ perspectives of the RTI implementation and confidence of the implementation at their schools.  My target audience is anyone that is currently working at the secondary level (grades 6 – 12) with either Tier 1 (General Education classroom) or Tier 2 and Tier 3 literacy intervention.  This survey will take around 10 minutes to complete.  The findings from this survey will allow for discussion to take place from teachers’ points of view regarding their own confidence, and confidence in their school’s implementation of RTI.  

Survey Link: https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8J5BG4mkVA1FwCV 

If you would like to provide additional information, please feel free to contact me at rsavitz@vols.utk.edu or 352-215-2454.

Kind regards,

Rachelle Savitz
Graduate Assistant
Literacy Studies
University of Tennessee