Presentations
 

Book Club: A Literature-based Language Arts Program
InService, 8/7/00

Secondary Content Area Literacy
Marcella J. Kehus
presented to Berkley School District, New Teachers, 1/10/99

Reconciling the Cognitive and the Social in Conceptualizing Literacy Processes
The Once and Future Status of Schema Theory in Social Conceptions of Reading Comprehension
(Power Point slides or .pdf document)
- University of Nevada, Reno
- Oakland University

Individual Mental Functioning in a Sociocultural Context:  Schematic Representations of Cultural Knowledge in Comprehending Text
(Power Point slides or .pdf document)
- Michigan State University

Sound Meanings:  The Role of Prosody in Children's Comprehension of Text and Developing Sense of Voice
- University of Western Colorado

Genre Knowledge as Writer's Schema
(Power Point slides  or .pdf document)
- Oakland University

Discussant:  Richard C. Anderson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

National Reading Conference, Symposium
December, 1999, Orlando, FL

TeenLit.com:  A Virtual Community of Adolescent Writers, Study One 

National Reading Conference
December, 1999, Orlando, FL

TeenLit.com
An Online Forum for Student Literacy & Teacher Exchange
&
IRA Technology Session
May, 1999, San Diego, CA

Middle School Book Club: Engaging Adolsescents in Conversations around Literature
& Linda Pavonetti
PowerPoint slides or outline
Michigan Reading Association Conference
March, 1999, Grand Rapids, MI
also presented at Oakland University, Fall, 1998, and Rochester Schools, Fall, 1999

Integrating Spelling and Word Study in a Whole Language Classroom
&
42nd Annual Michigan Reading Association Conference
"The Many Faces of Literacy"
March, 1998, Grand Rapids, MI