Friday, October 10- Luncheon/Workshop (Letter
& Registration Form)
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Location: Milleridge Inn, Jericho, Garden Room Sponsor: Grace Andresini--Great Source,
Rigby and Steck Vaughn, Inc. Speaker: Mr.
Scott Miller, professional development specialist and
reading & language arts consultant
for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental Publishers
Friday, December 12 - Luncheon/Workshop (Letter
& Registration Form)
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00
p.m.
Location: Milleridge Inn,
Jericho, Garden Room Sponsor: Danielle Lewandowski
of Bedford St. Martin’s Press Speaker: Victor Jaccarino, Lead
Chairperson of English 6-12 Herricks Schools
Pricing:
$32.00 for LILAC members and $38.00 for non-members
If
you have any questions, please feel free
to call
Adrienne Robb-Fund at
(631) 912-2027
Friday, April 24, 2009 - LILAC/NRC
Annual Spring Conference
Time: 7:30
am - 2:30 pm
Location: The Melville Marriott
Topic:Believing
in Literacy(Letter
to Prosepective Presenters) Keynote Speakers: Irene Fountas & Kwame Alexander
Long Island Language Arts Council &
Nassau Reading
Council Conference
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM Due by December
30, 2008
Irene Fountas:
Guided Reading expert and professor at
Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Irene Fountas
has extensive experience as a classroom teacher, language
arts specialist, and consultant in school districts across
the nation and abroad. Currently, she directs field-based
literacy research projects and continues to publish resources
for comprehensive literacy programs including guided reading
resource guides. With her coauthor Gay Su Pinnell, she
has written Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All
Children; Guided Readers and Writers Grades 3-6: Teaching
Comprehension, Genre and Content Literacy; Word Matters:
Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom;
and Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words and How They Work (for
kindergarten, grade one, and grade two). She is the recipient
of the Greater Boston Council and the International Reading
Association's Celebrate Literacy Award.
Kwame Alexander: Poet, publisher, award-winning producer
of literary programs, and dubbed a "phenom" in
the poetry world by The Charleston (SC) City Paper, Kwame
Alexander has written for television, the stage, and authored
ten books including the best-selling Do The Write Thing:
7 Steps to Publishing Success, Dancing Naked on the Floor:
poems and essays, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac
Shakur, and most recently a young adult title, Crush: Love
Poems. He speaks, and conducts writing/publishing workshops
at schools and conferences throughout the country. Alexander
resides in the Washington, DC area, where he produced the
annual Capital BookFest presented by The Washington Post,
and currently serves as the President of Book-in-a-Day,
a literacy program that teaches and inspires youth in the
writing and publishing process. The Kwame Alexander Papers,
a collection of his writings, correspondence, and other
professional and personal documents is held at the George
Washington University Gelman Library.
