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National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee
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2006 Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts Sunday, November 19, 1:00-3:00 PM The Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Committee will introduce the 2006 Notable Books List. Following a slide presentation of each of the 30 books, participants will be invited to engage in roundtable conversations with committee members and Notable Books authors and illustrators. For further information please contact Miriam Martinez at Miriam.Martinez@utsa.edu. [top] Master Class in Teaching Children’s Literature Keeping
the Love of Literature Alive in This High-Stakes Testing Environment
Saturday, November 18, 5:45-7:00 PM The 2006
Master Class will focus on how professors of children’s literature
can help their students keep the love of literature and reading alive
in their classrooms within the current era of testing and mandated curricula.
The panel will feature children’s literature authors Candace
Fleming and Jim Murphy, who will talk about
the writing of fiction and nonfiction books within this environment. Professors
Nancy Roser and Kathy Short will address
issues of theory, policy, and curricula. For further information, please contact Lettie K. Albright at lalbright@mail.twu.edu or Janelle Mathis at Mathis@coe.unt.edu. [top] Let's Get Smart About Art: Developing Visual Literacy with Picture Books Monday, November 20, 9:00-3:30 PM The purpose of this workshop is to help teachers learn how to talk about and look carefully at picture book art. Workshop presenters will include award winning illustrators of children's literature (Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Elisa Kleven, Kadir Nelson and Leuyen Pham), art editors from publishing companies (Jeannette Lawson and Paula Wiseman) and scholars who specialize in picture book art (Barbara Kiefer and Kenneth and Sylvia Marantz). For further information, please contact please contact Jonda McNair at jmcnair@clemson.edu. [top] Sunday, November 19, 7:30-9:45 AM For further information, please contact Gail Pritchard at pritcht@uah.edu.
Click here to see detailed information about the 2005 CLA Events. Click here to see pictures from the 2005 CLA Events. Click here to see pictures from the 2004 Author’s Breakfast with Denise Fleming. Click here to see pictures from the 2003 Author’s Breakfast with Paul Fleischman. [top] |
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