Adolescent Literacy Expert Dr. Janet Allen to Present at IRA
Dr. Janet Allen, author of Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction, will be speaking about adolescent literacy at this year's International Reading Association (IRA) conference in Minneapolis, MN, on May 6th at 2:00 in the Minnesota Convention Center, Room 200 ABC.
Prince Frederick, MD (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 1, 2009 --- Dr. Janet Allen, author of Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction, will be speaking about adolescent literacy at this year's International Reading Association (IRA) conference in Minneapolis, MN, on May 6th at 2:00 in the Minnesota Convention Center, Room 200 ABC. The title of this SIGNAL session is "Network on Adolescent Literacy--Adolescent Literacy: Titles, Genres, and Strategies to Engage All Readers--Struggling, Reluctant and Avid." Dr. Allen's featured presentation is titled "Passionate and Committed Readers: Where Do We Get Them? How Do We Keep Them?"
Dr. Allen will draw on her extensive experience as a high school reading and English teacher and researcher to address the topic of engaging adolescents in literacy. During this workshop, Dr. Allen will be teaching the same strategies she used in the teaching materials she created for the core texts in Plugged-in to Nonfiction. Dr. Allen offers strategies for reading and writing nonfiction, learning from functional versus expository versus narrative text, as well as learning specialized vocabulary. She also demonstrates how to generate interest and engagement in nonfiction and how to transfer text-specific nonfiction reading strategies to other texts and contexts.
"I've discovered books that teach students how to write, draw, dance, skateboard, and build," Dr. Allen says. "I've been able to find books that make them want to read, discuss, think, and write about others' stories. And I've been able to help them discover what many of us have known since childhood--there are new words and new worlds waiting for each of us between the covers of these great books."
To learn more about Plugged-in to Nonfiction and Dr. Janet Allen's appearance at the IRA conference, please visit www.PluggedintoNonfiction.com.
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