Friday, May 2
Workshop Sessions

1:00 – 4:00

Differentiation and Integration Through Reader’s Workshop
(1-6)

Rhonda Nixon, Therese Coates, Charlie Stuart, Tracee Laba

	Setting Criteria With Your Students     (K-6)

Kim Epp
	Meet, Shrink, and Be Merry Using Formative Assessment (7-9)

Sandie Bishop and Brenda Bintz
	An Introduction to Teaching Film in the ELA Classroom
(7-12)

Dawn Anderson and Brad Smilanich	Fine-Tuning Assessment for Learning in the ELA Classroom
(10-12)

Laurel Sproule and Sherri Johnston	

Saturday, May 3
Breakout #1

10:30 – 11:45

Lights! Camera! Action!  Readers’ Theatre Goes to the Movies (uncensored!) (1-6)

Angela Wright and Kerry Haggett

Spike	Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing
(1-6)

Brandi Clark

Signal	Motivating At Risk Students
(7-9)

Tammy Myskiw

Tekarra	Take the “Gram” Out of Grammar   (7-9)

Linda Huot

Pyramid C	Don’t Sweat the Art Stuff: Even You Can Integrate Art and LA         (7-9)

Sylvia Lerette and Judy Smallwood

Ballroom B	101 New Texts
(10-12)

Brent McKeown & Brad Smilanich

Ballroom C	Drawn Into Reading and Writing: Sketching as Literary Response (10-12)

Pamela Young

Ballroom A	What ELA Can Do For Social Studies    (10-12)

Tim Coates & Barbara Proctor-Hartley

Ballroom A	Reading Comprehension (Pre-registered session)

Cris Tovani

Pyramid A 	

Saturday, May 3
Breakout #2

1:30 – 2:45

Jump Start Your Independent and Guided Reading Lessons     (1-6)

Tammy Myskiw and Sonia Mangieri

Spike	Prewriting Strategies and the Effective Student Writer
(1-6)

Lyle Weis

Tekarra	Canadian Authors in Training: Becoming Good Readers and Writers
(7-9)

Belina Pasula and Colleen McMorran

Signal	Where Did You Get That Idea? (General)

Marty Chan

Ballroom A	The Third Space – Exploring World Literature and Post-Colonial Texts in the ELA Class (7-9)

Farha Shariff

Pyramid B	Teaching Writing
(10-12)

Richard Davies

Ballroom B	Argumentation in Creative Responses in the 2007 Grade 12 ELA 30-1 Examination (10-12)

Marg Iveson and Gloria Michaelchuk

Pyramid C	Visual Literacy in the ELA High School Classroom:  Improving Student Responses to Visual Texts (10-12)

** This session is 150 minutes*

Barbara Proctor-Hartley and Brad Smilanich

Ballroom C 
	Reading Comprehension (Pre-registered session)

Cris Tovani

Pyramid A 	

Saturday, May 3
Breakout #3

3:15 – 4:30

Going Medieval on Literacy     (1-6)

Peter Weeks and Angela Boxma

Spike
	Cartooning as a Writing Strategy
(1-6)

James Grasdal

Tekarra	Exploring the Underworld of Junior High through Literature and the Media
(7-9)

Denise Lemieux

Signal	Comic Books in the Classroom (7-9)

Matthew Dixon and Carolyn Powell

Pyramid A	Using Your Writing Process to Get Your Students Excited About Writing    (10-12)

Garry Ryan

Pyramid C	Teaching the “Forgotten Guys”
(10-12)

Richard Davies

Ballroom B	A Year Teaching English in the United Kingdom (General)

Lynn Burrough

Ballroom A	Visual Literacy Continued from Breakout 2 (10-12)

Barbara Proctor-Hartley & Brad Smilanich

Ballroom C

	Young Alberta Book Society – Real, Live Literature: Hosting a Literary Artist (General) 

Stephanie Gregorwich

Pyramid B	

Sunday, May 4
Breakout #4

9:00 – 10:15

Facilitating Change in Successful Schools: One School’s Journey to Improve Student Reading Levels         (1-6)

Kurtis Hewson & Lorna Adrian

Tekarra
	A Dynamic Instructional Framework: Language Experience Approach to Literacy  for ESLStudents
(1-3)

Pamela Winsor

Signal	Increasing Student Enjoyment and Engagement in Reading: The Middle School Book Club
(5-9)

Marianne Auch

Ballroom C
	Children and the Media: Solution-Oriented Tools to Help Our Kids Be Media and Life-Wise
(4-9)

Linda Millar

Pyramid C 
	Creating an Editorial Cartoon      (7-9)

James Grasdal

Pyramid C	Graphic Novels 1: The History of Comic Books and Evolution of the Graphic Novel
(10-12)

Terry Colp

Pyramid A	“Class, Turn to Page 67” Enhancing Student Engagement (10-12)

Geoff Parker

Ballroom A	Identity Crisis:  Reconciling Educational Frameworks with ELA (10-12)

Brent McKeown

Pyramid B

Sunday, May 4
Breakout #5

10:30 – 11:45

	A Cheat Code For Writing Stories
(General)

Marty Chan

Ballroom C
	Reader Response
(7-9)

Erin Winch

Pyramid C	Marking to a Standard   (7-9)

Craig Baba

Ballroom A	Maximizing Safe, Ethical, and Efficient Use of the ‘Net in ELA (7-9)

Janet Bell, Brian Cleary, Catherine Macklam

Ballroom B	Graphic Novels 2: Using Comic Books and Graphic Novels in the Classroom
(10-12)

Terry Colp

Pyramid A	Language Wars: Difficulties for Chinese-Speaking ESL Students
(10-12)

Rui Feng and Iris Hong Xu

Tekarra	Aesthetics, Terms, and Genuine Critical Analysis    (10-12)

Marg Iveson

Signal