Summer 2009 Literacy Institute

Using The Continuum of Literacy Learning as a Tool to Plan for and Assess Your Students' Reading (K-8)

Learn how to analyze students' reading behaviors and support their development from emergent to self-extending.

Topics will include observing readers and using the data to plan for teaching, exploring the development of reading across the grades, analyzing children's reading behaviors, and working with readers through whole group, small group and individualized teaching. Learn how to plan across the year by studying grade level competencies through the Continuum of Literacy Learning and discover how to help your students deepen their understandings by talking and writing about their reading.

Dates and Location

• Monday-Thursday, July 13-16, 2009
• 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
• Lesley University
  University Hall Amphitheatre (2nd floor)
  1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140

Overview and Schedule

This institute is designed for K-8 classroom teachers, reading teachers, literacy specialists and Title I teachers.

• Keynotes on the Continuum of Literacy Learning by literacy experts and authors, Irene Fountas, Margaret Crosby, Toni Czekanski, Cindy Downend Jill Eurich, Kathy Ha, and Diane Powell
• Keynote by museum educator Megan Lambert, creator of The Whole Book Approach
• Interactive breakout sessions, grouped by grade level
• Specific approaches tailored to primary, intermediate and middle-school educators
• Information on a variety of reading contexts, including Interactive Read Aloud, Shared & Modeled Reading (primary), Reading Minilessons (grade 3 and above), Guided Reading (all grade levels) as well as Literature Circles (grade 3 and above)

Download the tentative schedule, complete with session descriptions [pdf].

Speakers

Irene C. Fountas, Professor and Author, Lesley University
Irene Fountas is a professor in the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. where she directs research-based literacy projects. She has been a classroom teacher, language arts specialist and consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad. A recipient of several awards for her contributions to literacy, Fountas has co-authored numerous books and articles related to language and literacy teaching with Gay Su Pinnell. Their latest publications are the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System, Grades K-8 and The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach and Support.

Megan Lambert, Museum Educator, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Mass.
Megan Lambert earned a BA at Smith College and an MA in Children's Literature at Simmons College. Her original storytime models, The Whole Book Approach and the Book in Hand Storytime, create interactive shared reading experiences connecting verbal and visual literacy skills and are the basis for her work with children at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and in outreach programs. She also leads professional development programs on these approaches and on other topics related to the study, use, and enjoyment of children's literature. A freelance writer and reviewer for several journals, Megan has served as a visiting professor at colleges and universities through New England, most recently in the Simmons College MFA in Writing for Children program at The Carle, and at Mt. Holyoke College and Boston University.

Additional primary and intermediate/middle presentations by Lesley University Literacy Collaborative faculty members:

Required Books

All participants are required to have The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach and Support by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann, 2007) and Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Reading, K-8 by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann, 2006). Please have the required texts with you on day one of the institute. Heinemann will be exhibiting on day one (Monday) and will be selling both books for a discount.

Course Credit Assignments

• 2 Graduate Credits [PDF]
• 3 Graduate Credits [PDF]

Cost

Non-credit fee (mailed paper registration): $575 (24 PDPs)

Non-credit fee (online registration): $550 (24 PDPs)

Credit Options: 2 or 3 credits

Credit Fee: $790/credit plus $30 registration fee

• 2 Credits =$1,580 (45 PDPs) plus $30 registration fee = $1,610
• 3 Credits = $2,370 (67.5 PDPs) plus $30 registration fee = $2,400

Registration Information

Registering for Graduate Credit

Participants registering for this institute for graduate credit must register using the PDF forms below. Non-credit registrants may register online.

1) Complete a standard registration form AND

2) Complete a credit registration form

• Primary educators (grades K-2) taking the institute for credit should indicate the following course title and number on the Credit Registration Form: Summer Primary Literacy Institute–EEDUC 6020.30

• Intermediate/middle educators (grades 3-8) taking the institute for credit should indicate the following course title and number on the Credit Registration Form: Summer Intermediate/Middle Literacy Institute–EEDUC 6030.30

3) Paying for graduate credit with a credit card? Please also complete a credit card authorization form.

4) Paying for graduate credit with a voucher? Submit the original voucher with your forms. Please read the policies printed on the voucher regarding their use.

Please return all forms and payment information to the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 or fax the forms to 617.349.8490. Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative staff will take students' credit registration forms to the registrar and register them.

Registering for Non-Credit

• Submit a standard registration form (see below registration forms) with payment to Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery & Literacy Collaborative OR
• Register online via our secure, online registration system. All payment methods are accepted within the online registration system (PO, check, credit card).
• PLEASE NOTE: NON-CREDIT PARTICIPANTS PAYING BY CREDIT CARD MUST REGISTER ONLINE.

• Register for the Summer 2009 Literacy Institute Online!

Registration Forms

• Standard Registration Form [PDF] (for non-credit and credit students)
• Credit Registration Form [PDF] (for credit students only)
• Credit card authorization form [PDF] (for students paying for graduate credit with a credit card)