Conferences & Events

Annual Convention Sunday Highlights

| Apr 27, 2012

This list of highlights for the Annual Convention on Sunday, April 29, features events gathered from the online program grid, Guide to the Stars, and more! Visit the online program grid's event search or the interactive digital version of the program for a full list of sessions and more details.

7:30 a.m.

Be sure to stop by the IRA Bookstore at the International Reading Association (IRA) 57th Annual Convention in Chicago for the Sunday Sale! It runs from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. across from the IRA Membership Booth and Registration.

9:00 a.m.

The following institutes are held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in various meeting rooms in McCormick Place West and the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.

Institute 1: Unit Projects that Work: Create Amazing Comprehensive Keepsake Books
Institute 2: Think Along Strategies and Common Core State Standards
Institute 3: Promoting Vocabulary Development from Pre-K to Grade 12
Institute 4: Teaching Literacy for Cognitive Engagement
Institute 5: Things Digital and Literacy Instruction
Institute 6: Literacy and Language in the Early Years
Institute 7: Writing Strategy Mini-lessons for Grades K-6
Institute 8: Quality Literacy Instruction for Second Language Learners
Institute 9: Raising Self-Determining Readers and Writers
Institute 10: Convincing teachers to Apply New Common Core Literacy Standards
Institute 11: It’s Not Magic! It’s Metacognition!
Institute 12: Rekindling the Reading Fire-Author Panel
Institute 13: The Reading-Spelling-Meaning Instructional Connection
Institute 14: IRA/NCATE: A Partnership for Reading Professional
Institute 15: Reaching New Heights: Differentiating Literacy Instruction
Institute 16: Fostering Literacy with Research-Based Instructional Practices and Web 2.0
Institute 17: Developing Literacy Leadership
Institute 18: Research Making a Difference in Common Core Standards

6:00 p.m.

In the evening, awards for councils and international affiliates are presented from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at a ceremony and reception in the Chicago Hilton & Towers International Ballroom.

Reminder:

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