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.
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
