KEYNOTE SPEAKER
~ Cris Tovani
When Reading is Hard: Why Students
Need Strategy Instruction
Star Academy proudly
announces the 2009 keynote speaker, Cris
Tovani, a nationally recognized
consultant and author. Cris
specializes in assisting adolescent
readers to develop comprehension skills
and most of all, rediscover the joy of
reading. Hear first hand about her
research-based strategies for teaching
students to read, write and think at
higher levels.
As students progress
through the grade levels and academic
reading increases and becomes more
rigorous, fewer and fewer adolescents
know how to negotiate difficult text.
At a time when reading instruction
should increase, it is often eliminated.
during this keynote, Cris will share how
she implements strategy instruction to
help her students obtain information.
through work samples, students reveal
funny, sad and sometimes surprising
perspectives about their lives as
readers. For readers who "don't
get it" and don't have strategies to
repair meaning, difficult text rarely
leads to productive reading.
Cris will be presenting for two days
following her keynote.
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