San Diego Public Library :: READ / San Diego :: Tutor Conference :: June 9 2018

READ/San Diego’s 28th Annual

Tutor Conference

June 9, 2018

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

University of San Diego

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Maryanne Wolf

How the Reading Brain Changes

Our Understanding of Instruction, Dyslexia, and the Digital Culture

READ/San Diego hosts an annual tutor conference open to all volunteer tutors as well as professional adult teachers at the University of San Diego. This exciting event is full of workshops and lectures given by literacy experts at major leading institutions around the country. This year our keynote speaker is Dr. Maryann Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.

Brochure & Registration

STRAND 1 8:30-9:45 a.m.

1Smartphones Meet Literacy: Engage your Learners with an App!

2 The Understanding that Grew from Tupac: Poetry as a Bridge to Reading

Comprehension - Double Session

3 So that’s why there is a in sign, in two and we spell every with three syllables! - Double Session

4 Ten Strategies That Support Comprehension - Double Session

5 Systematic Written Instruction from Language Building to Paragraphs

6 Helping Students with Workplace Communication

STRAND 2 10:00-11:15 a.m.

7 How an App Can Accelerate Math Progress ABE to HSE

8 The Understanding that Grew from Tupac: Poetry as a Bridge to Reading Comprehension - Double Session

9 So that’s why there is a in sign, in two and we spell every with three syllables! - Double Session

10 Ten Strategies That Support Comprehension - Double Session

11 23 Sounds First™

12 Helping Students with Workplace Communication - Repeat

STRAND 3 1:45-3:00 p.m.

13 Smartphones Meet Literacy: Engage your Learners with an App! - Repeat

14 Learner as Author: Visual Storytelling as Literacy Tutoring Tool - Double Session

15 Rime Magic: Fast Success for Struggling Readers

16 Ten Strategies That Support Comprehension - Double Session

17 Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels in Adult Literacy Learning - Double Session

18 Teaching Civics and Citizenship to Immigrants - Double Session

STRAND 4 3:15-4:30 p.m.

19 How an App Can Accelerate Math Progress ABE to HSE - Repeat

20 Learner as Author: Visual Storytelling as Literacy Tutoring Tool - Double Session

21 Rime Magic: Fast Success for Struggling Readers - Repeat

22 Ten Strategies That Support Comprehension - Double Session

23 Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels in Adult Literacy Learning - Double Session

24 Teaching Civics and Citizenship to Immigrants - Double Session