Session A: 9:30 am – 10:00 am

Bluegrass A

Wait…What Did I Just Read? Come explore different strategies to help guide students to better comprehend text.

Corissa Riffe, Kelah Eldridge MSU Comp

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass A

Improving Comprehension using Vocabulary My session is about the strategies I teach my students when decoding and learning about vocabulary words so that they can better comprehend grade-level questions and reading passages.

Kylee Cheek EKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Building Reading Comprehension Heather and Bridget will be discussing the basic foundational skills of reading as we teach kindergarten. I have created a reading strategies bookmark for levels Pre-A through I for students. This bookmark has strategies that match the reading strategies poster in our classrooms. They also go home with students in their book bag. The intent of this was to help students further their knowledge and usage of reading strategies. Kathryn and Katelyn will be discussing comprehension skills through the elementary levels.

Bridget Gay, Kathryn Walston,

Katelyn Baumgardner, Heather Hatfield

KSU Comp EC

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Vocabulary Strategies We plan to present various vocabulary strategies we have implemented this year in our respective content areas. Rob teaches 3rd grade math content throughout the school day. He has experimented with various vocabulary strategies to strengthen and enhance students comprehension and usage of math vocabulary. Pat teaches 3rd grade reading comprehension and vocabulary. She has implemented a variety of vocabulary strategies introduced during KRP training, as well as experimented with a number of strategies discovered on-line and from other resources, that have served to improve vocabulary development and reading comprehension.

Pat West, Rob Smith,

Anna Thompson NKU Comp

Int

KSRP

Bluegrass B

Close Reading The strategy of reading the same text multiple times, each for a different purpose, and identifying that purpose clearly and in student friendly language before reading.

Lauren Eaves KSU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B Improving Comprehension with Guided Reading and Writing

Brandi Borgmenke NKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

This presentation will discuss strategies and activities I have implemented in my kindergarten classroom to increase student comprehension levels and improve writing skills. I have integrated Fountas and Pinnell's Guided Reading Curriculum with other strategies learned through KRP trainings. I will have work samples and Data points, from MAP, BAS, Running Records, and other assessments.

Bluegrass B

Getting Started with Guided Reading Walk through the first steps of guided reading implementation with me.

Chelsey Reid WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

The Jan Plan Comprehension through all the components of literacy.

Meredith Hayes, Michaela Parker,

Ariana Dowd UK Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Bluegrass C

Third Grade Will RISE See how through explicit planning and instruction students move rapidly through reading levels in order to RISE to grade level in EIGHT weeks. In this session you will see how Jan Richardson’s RISE program changed students’ mindsets, fostered a love for reading and inspired their teacher.

Lisa Lairson UofL Phon Int

KRP

Bluegrass C

Kindergarten Words and How to Find Them: A Words Their Way Study We are two Kindergarten teachers who have spent the year focusing on developing our students' phonics, vocabulary, and spelling knowledge through the use of Words Their Way. We will share how we organized and used WTW picture and word sorts to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of our students.

Alecia Parker, Trista Hibbitts EKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Phonics Is Fun! I will discuss strategies to help teach phonics at the kindergarten level. I will also share some good resources for phonics skills and some assessments that have been helpful.

Jennifer Malone KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

A Cornucopia of Words Our presentation is going to be over vocabulary and discussing how to incorporate strategies for primary and intermediate students. Vocabulary is key reading skill that students struggle with the most, so we felt the need to focus on it within both our classroom using various strategies from books. The use of the “word nerds” book and “get the

Liz Grant Turner, Katie Campbell WKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

root” book are where we pulled our man in resources from.

Bluegrass C

Sounds Boxes to improve Phonics I will be showing how the use of Elkonin sound boxes improved my students phonics scores on the IReady test.

Colleen Wright EKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Word Study Using manipulatives to increase phonemic awareness in all reading levels of 1st grade.

Joy Larrison, Brandi Plank UK Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Building Readers Through Guided Reading Come join me to learn about how you can grow your students into well-rounded readers through guided reading. This session includes the components of guided reading as well as practical ways to build students' phonics and decoding skills. Come explore guided reading and how to implement this into your classroom instruction!

Rachel McBroom UofL Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Making Time Count during Guided Reading This presentation will show how we developed Literacy Centers using the 5 components of reading during our Guided Reading Instruction.

Miranda Cole, Shannon Corder, McKayla Jones,

Julie Pyles, Katina Shearer, Shelby Wooten

MSU Phon Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass C

Literacy Centers in the Kindergarten Classroom What happens when students participate in literacy centers? Throughout the school year, I have used centers to maximize literacy instruction and optimize student learning. Student engagement has increased dramatically through a variety reading, writing and listening centers.

Mary Bruce Watson UofL Phon Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass D

Rise up with Guided Reading Using Jan Richardson’s RISE for guided reading students will receive intense phonics instruction, guided writing, and reading practice.

Heather Smith, Kayla Skinner MSU Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass D

All Readers Aloud Join me in this session to discover how to unite all learners in your classroom through read alouds. I will share how reading picture books aloud to students will not only promote listening skills, comprehension, and critical thinking, but also presents opportunities to increase student engagement, confidence, and social skills.

Amanda Brooks UofL Comp Int

KRP

Bluegrass D

Powerful Comprehension Strategies Teaching comprehension doesn’t have to be complicated. We are sharing strategies that are

Jackie Bray, Summer Riley MuSU Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

easy to use with any text. These strategies help to produce powerful results.

Bluegrass D

Writing For All: Raising the Bar for Special Education and RTI Students We will discuss how we changed our expectations for Special Education students and Tier 3 RTI students in the area of writing. That change resulted in their writing abilities skyrocketing over the course of the year! We will walk you through our writing process for these students and share samples of writing that our students completed in 30 minutes or less!

Bobbie Barrier, Jessica Hancock,

Mary Wright MSU Writing

Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Words Their Way The Wildcat Way! This action-research project addresses the phonics and spelling deficits within our district using Words Their Way and its impact on reading comprehension, writing, and fluency.

Shelbie Smith, Sherri Patrick,

Megan Pennington MSU Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass E

Our Way with Words Their Way! Follow our "way" of implementing, monitoring and assessing results of WTW with 1st grade.

Amanda Dickerson, Tracie Davis,

Amber Weinberg, April Lawson

MSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

Centered Around Reading Effective use of centers to supplement teaching of phonics, phonemic awareness, and reading.

Tabatha Clayton WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

On Our Way with Words Their Way How can Words Their Way be implemented in Kindergarten? Come see how we have increased phonics and phonological awareness and help lay the building blocks for successful readers.

Jennifer Stratton, Stacy Mosier MSU Phon

EC/Prim

KSRP

Cardinal

“Math is Everywhere” Our students are surrounded by math, even in the drive thru! It is necessary to connect the abstract to the concrete for middle school students. Student learning experiences in math are crucial to the connection success. Our students used and created infographics to demonstrate real world applications in all curriculum while deepening students' understanding of standards.

Kelly Denton, Brittany Mitchell, Elizabeth Moore,

Ashley Retting

UofL R&W Acr Curr

MS

ALP

Cardinal

Front-loading: Effects on Comprehension & Discussion This presentation will cover the importance of front-loading before reading. There will be two different forms of front-loading discussed and evaluated. One strategy for secondary sources and one for primary sources. The goal of these strategies is to help increase reading

Jacob Schwandt WKU Comp HS

ALP

comprehension and to serve as a catalyst for more in-depth discussion.

Colonel A

Like Pieces of a Puzzle..It ALL Goes Together! Reading and writing have no bounds, just limitless pieces that fit together across the curriculum. We teach students of all ages that they will need every subject to become a success in the world. Now it’s our time to show them how it can be so by discovering how to incorporate reading and writing into your daily instruction.

Morgan Asher Jones, Amanda Sizemore EKU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Reading in Content I will be sharing focusing on content area vocabulary through reading, jigsawing and vocabulary games. During our Family Reading Nights I focused my attention on reading content area books and what parents can do to help with comprehension while students created a craft based on the informational text.

Cynthia Gibson NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Reading and Writing Using writing to lift reading and increase performance across the curriculum.

Callie Little, Cathy Reveal, Megan Baxter

UK R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!! (Making Connections with Read Alouds) The story of how two teachers use read alouds to build a community of readers across content areas. Come and hear how we use read alouds to form bonds with students, revive the joy of reading, create invitations to discussions, expand vocabulary and make connections across curriculum.

Jennifer Williams, Laura Evans UofL R&W

Acr Curr

Int

KSRP

Colonel B

Primary Writing During the year I focused on writing instruction in my classroom through both writing pieces and writing in journals. I will be sharing writing pieces and samples from my first grade students.

Emily Kendall NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Literacy Family Engagement I will be sharing a reading comprehension strategy we have been practicing all year called the 5 Finger Retell. I will also be sharing our classroom Literacy Family Project. Students took turns taking home our class "pet" Knuffle Bunny along with the book. Students read the book with their families and then had to take Knuffle Bunny on an "adventure" and write and draw about it and present it the next day to the class. We made all of the adventures into a class book.

Annie Hesch NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Word Whizzes We will be presenting ways in which to engage students in learning vocabulary and loving it! We will include game ideas and hands on activities to help students develop their vocabulary knowledge base and bring words to life.

Bridget Strode, Ashley Johnston WKU Rel

R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Fabulous Firsties Reading and Journal Writing Club Join me in this session as I will share how I opened up the happy world of writing to my first grade students. Our club was created for independent readers and writers to struggling readers and writers with no more writing frustrations! Come see writing examples and smiling faces!

Lori Powell UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Intentional Vocabulary Instruction Sharing the value of implementing intentional vocabulary instruction using various engaging vocabulary strategies.

Brenna Ray, Ashton Giles, Amy Whisman

MuSU Vocab

Int

KRP & KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Increasing Vocabulary Skills to Improve Reading By utilizing read alouds and direct teaching of vocabulary words I was hoping to increase vocabulary scores and reading scores as measured by the iReady Assessment and the F&P Benchmark Assessment.

Alicia Boone-Shackleford EKU Vocab

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Vamping Up Our Vocabulary Come join our table! During this session you will learn vocabulary techniques that you can take right back into your classroom at any level. Learn how to utilize Flocabulary and Word Nerds as resources to build effective vocabulary instruction across all grade levels.

Haylee Evans, Taylor Johnson,

Haley Russell MuSU Vocab

Int

KRP4RTA & KRP

Colonel C

Vocabulary: Do This, Not That! How we incorporated strategies such as Flocabulary and Go Noodle into classroom vocabulary instruction to create word wizards, improve fluency, overall reading level and comprehension.

Terisa Hall, Kamren Feltner,

Katrina Montgomery, Colby Banks

MSU Vocab

Prim/Int

KSRP & KRP4RTA

Rockbridge

Embedded Nonfiction Studying South African anti-apartheid Movement by reading Nelson Mandela’s LONG WALK TO FREEDOM.

Kimberly Calhoun WKU Rel R&W

HS

ALP

Steamboat

Writing Development in Preschool Handwriting in preschool varies in many ways as we serve 3-5 year olds in our preschool. Some come in writing a letter perfectly and some come in not

Melissa Baldwin, Amy Harris,

Kristi Lunceford, Virtie Kirby

UK Early Writing

EC

ELLP

having the experience of holding a crayon. Our LAP addresses handwriting at the key for handwriting success which is to start with fine motor development, without it, it will lead to stress on the student as well as the teacher. As fine motor skills progressed, we then provided more direct hands on writing experiences.

Steamboat

Vocabulary Journals Enhancing student vocabulary and being able to write the vocabulary words begins at a young age. Our LAP focuses on vocabulary beginning at the preschool age where they are learning how to hold the pencil and write simple words and continues through 1st grade where they can dictate, draw, and create sentences with vocabulary words in their journals.

Lea Bentley, Melissa Blankenship,

April Borowski UK

Early Writing/ Vocab

EC

ELLP

Steamboat

Phonemic Awareness Focus is on having the children hear and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

Becky Cain, Susan Fannin, Pam Mullins, Kathy Stacey

UK Phon EC

ELLP

Steamboat

The Reader In Me! Come see me Read! I will present a way to increase reading skills in kindergarten by using ‘personal readers’. Personal readers are created from students meaningful ‘readingful’ material! Oh what a reader I can be!

Tracy Payne UofL Fluency Prim

KRP4RTA

Steamboat

Family Message Journal Family Message Journals are a great way to build the student, parent, and teacher relationship. Learn how to use journals in your classroom to improve literacy skills and bridge the gap between home and school.

Shelly Taylor UofL Writing/Fam Eng

Prim

KRP4RTA

Thoroughbred

Orbis Pictus Books & Other Great Non-Fiction The use of nonfiction picture books to supplement lessons.

Jimmi Lynn Watson, Brandi Saylor,

Hayden Westfall EKU R&W

Acr Curr

MS

ALP

Thoroughbred

Teaching Act Reading How to help students prepare for ACT Reading section

Jessica Poe NKU Comp HS

ALP

SESSION B: 10:10 – 10:40 am

Bluegrass A

Family Involvement Starts Here Are you looking for creative ways to involve parents and family? The F.I.S.H binder is for you! It is an easy way to involve parents/family while reading

Taylor Underwood, Angela Feezor, Cathy Scruggs

MuSU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

and writing across the curriculum. Also, an idea for literacy and family academic night with your school. Check us out!

Bluegrass A

Family Involvement and Writing How I incorporated family journals into my classroom and the response from families. The use of Interactive Content Notebooks that incorporate reading and writing across content areas. I am going to discuss the reading and writing strategies I use in my guided reading groups to demonstrate knowledge and skills.

Allison Ritter NKU Writing/Fam Eng

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Spelling Instruction in Grades 3-5 Trying to find spelling instruction that would benefit and challenge all students in a classroom was very difficult. Using Words Their Way spelling instruction seemed like a great fit but for a first time user can be very overwhelming. I will share how using Words Their Way has greatly improved our spelling in grades 3-5, organization ideas that hopefully won’t make you want to pull your hair out, and resources that hold students accountable when working with new word patterns.

Kalie Crowder WKU Phon Int

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Guiding Students to Success Through Guided Reading My presentation will be a Prezi and a handout that shows how I implemented Guided Reading into my literacy instruction. My presentation will show how I run my Guided Reading groups, as well as how the students have progressed throughout the school year.

Kaitlyn Burks WKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Tacky The Penguin Vs. Penguin Who Will Win The Challenge? Come learn how fiction and non-fiction read aloud books can change the conversation and interest in the classroom. In this session we will talk about how to create student interest, using student interest surveys, choosing fiction stories that fit their experiences, and non-fiction books that help students learn new experiences.

Michelle McGaha UofL R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass B

Putting Together a Book Room: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly We have been working on putting a book room together for the teachers in our school. We wanted to create a resource room for our teachers that was easy to use based on what standard or concept they were teaching.

Whitney Combs, Sheyenne Palmore WKU R&W

Acr Curr

Int

KRP

Bluegrass B

Reach For The Stars In the 2018-2019 school year, I will apply word analysis and vocabulary skills during whole group mini lessons. Students will work independently in 20 minute stations. The stations include differentiated work in each station with scaffolded Learning Targets in each station. Stations will include: Writing, Guided Reading, Technology, Read to Respond, and Word Work. This will help to increase scores on the Fountas and Pinnell Reading assessments.

Wanda Noble, Rhonda Cole

EKU & MSU

R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

From Fiction to Fact: Using Nonfiction Text in the Classroom Using nonfiction books, technology resources, and writing opportunities, we have implemented factual information into our 1st and 3rd grade classrooms to reinforce reading and writing across the curriculum. Whole group, small group, and individual tasks have been used to enhance students' knowledge of fiction vs. factual information. The students were given a particular topic, then became experts on it and in the end, are able show their knowledge of what they have learned. We have encouraged family involvement in our classrooms this year by incorporating a "Parent Show and Tell," as well as a Traveling Class Pet with a journal included. Both of these activities encourage a school/family partnership to enhance student learning and involvement in the classroom.

Sarah Fultz, Stephanie Prince NKU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim/Int

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Reading Aloud: Exploring A New Confident You Come see how working to teach intermediate parents what to look for in read alouds can help promote confidence in their child. Join the task to help parents create young fluent readers who can speak confidently as leaders who love to read.

Amy Byrd UofL Fam Eng Int

KSRP

Bluegrass C

Phonemic/phonological awareness Using an intervention kit that came with our reading program, we built on students phonemic and phonological awareness. Using activities to understand rhythm, word parts, and sentence structure, etc.

Dora Vickers EKU Phon EC

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Sort It Out! I will share the results from the Developmental Spelling Assessment given to my class at three different points in the year. I will explain how I used these results to differentiate instruction in spelling.

Suzanne Willis EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

How Jan Richardson’s The Next Step Forward Improved Phonics and Sight Words Following Jan Richardson’s Next Step Forward Intervention Plan improved my students phonics skills and becoming more successful learning sight words.

Wendy Sherrow KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Phonemes, Phonics, and Fun! This presentation will consist of how to incorporate phonemic awareness/ phonics instruction into a classroom reading block. The presentation will include strategies and how to make instruction manageable with multiple student levels.

Sarah Miller WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Individualized Sight Word Instruction This presentation shows the findings of how individualized sight word/vocabulary instruction, student kept data logs, and parent communication increases student performance on weekly assessments.

Marti Miracle EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Big Gains in Small Groups Meeting the needs of students who are below grade level in a small group setting. Focusing on Phonics and Word Recognition through games, activities, and Jan Richardson.

Alexa Just, Linda Weeks, Crystal Ruckel

UK Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Phonics Fun and the Home Connection Please join me to see how I used The Phonics Dance daily in my classroom and added home connection activities to help my 1st grade students become better readers and writers. I will share home connection examples and writing samples to demonstrate students' growth over the year.

Jennifer Gallagher UofL Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Reading Strategies for ESL How do you meet the needs of your English Language Learners in your Reading Instruction? Join us to explore strategies you can use to meet the needs of ESL students without losing rigor within the standards.

Jessica Thrasher, Sara Harris

MSU Wayne Phon

Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass C

How Can I Make Spelling Stick? Making Instruction Worthwhile Join us as we discuss the validity of spelling homework in the primary classroom. In recent years, we have noticed increased student difficulty in transferring spelling patterns from their homework to their writing. This year we chose to stop spelling homework and have had a more

Brittney Carl, Amanda Williams UofL Phon

Prim

KSRP

focused approach to classroom practice. Come see what our results show.

Bluegrass D

Spelling Better with Words Their Way We are implementing the Words Their Way program in our classrooms in an effort to increase phonological awareness.

Holly Montgomery, Anna Compton,

Courtney Bartley, Becky Martin, Miranda Blair,

Tiffany Kirk

MSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Improving Writing through Phonemic Awareness I will show how I use visual Phonics and phonemic awareness to improve writing in my Kindergarten students

Aimee Atwell WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

It's All About the Phonics: Word Study Strategies=Successful Readers We will be presenting different ways to make phonics and word study activities engaging to your students! Words Their Way, phonics skills assessment, and other word building strategies will be discussed.

Pam Blankenship, Malissia Hale, Teresa Evans,

Wendy O'Bryan, Miranda Johnson

MSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA & KSRP

Bluegrass D

There's a Hip-Hop Way to Learn New Words Everyday Come see how I changed my classroom techniques to manage Words Their Way in a classroom with multiple management challenges.

Rita Mills, Tammy Horn MSU Phon

Prim/Int

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Alphabet or Vocabulary

Tammy Gearheart, Megan Hall, Tara Morris, Ashley Fite

UK Vocab EC

ELLP

Bluegrass E

Parental Engagement and Education Will share efforts to work with community partnerships and district personnel to establish an early literacy team to benefit our youngest learner and their families, as well as use of Imagination Library to promote family engagement.

Tina Schneider UK Fam Eng EC

ELLP

Bluegrass E

Vivacious Vocabulary The team will present on the topic of building vocabulary with strategies from Word Nerds and Words Their Way, as well as, read alouds. Each team member will share their experiences with strategies from the books and the increase they seen in student achievement.

Kala Shearer, Belinda Marcum,

Kyra Rose, Brittany Sandlin

EKU Vocab Prim

KRP

Bluegrass E

Frayer Model in the Resource Room I will discuss how my special Education students used the Frayer model to acquire new vocabulary.

Tiffany Ball EKU Vocab Int

KRP

Cardinal Blended Learning Checklist Megan Jones NKU R&W

Acr Curr HS

Need student accountability, especially when it comes to writing independently? This method (modified from the original through input and feedback from several sources) shares the responsibility with students and asks them to take ownership of their learning, while providing opportunities for teachers to meet with small groups and provide targeted instruction.

ALP

Cardinal

Guided Reading and Stations in Middle School Implementation of guided reading and stations in grades 6-8 based on Jan Richardson's The Next Step in Guided Reading book. Also, implementation of guided writing strategies to facilitate reading comprehension.

Brittany Wynn UK Comp MS

KRP

Colonel A

Guided Reading in 3rd Grade This presentation will explore the positive benefits of implementing guided reading in the third-grade classroom. A round table discussion and PowerPoint presentation will paint the picture of guided reading in the intermediate grades and how it puts reading in the hands of the students.

Sally Morris EKU Comp Int

KRP

Colonel A

Closing the Gap Between Vocabulary and Comprehension In third grade, students begin to encounter domain-specific vocabulary. A bridge must be built to close the gap from exposure to comprehending the meaning and using the word in their vocabulary. This presentation will focus on strategies that combine vocabulary acquisition and comprehension.

McKenzie Blocker, Leann Strait UK Comp

Int

KRP

Colonel A

Building Vocabulary Comprehension in Literacy Different strategies to build vocabulary comprehension in the classroom

Stacy Adams, Whitney Roberts EKU Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Using Jan Richardson's Comprehension Modules to Create School-Wide Consistency My Literacy Action Plan has been focused on a school-wide, comprehensive approach to literacy, specifically reading comprehension. We took a day of staff development to work through our curriculum guides to highlight when each comprehension module would be used. By doing this, all teachers are approaching comprehension instruction using a common language. As students move through grade levels, they will be familiar with the modules, which will support their comprehension as text level and expectations grow.

Lindsay Spatola KSU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B Building Steps For Comprehension Christina Coots, EKU Comp Prim

This year we focused on improving comprehension by implementing an extra 30-minute block that focused primarily on comprehension skills. We will share our work and how comprehension and fluency have improved.

Lillie Mae Harmon KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Increasing Family Involvement and Improving Reading Comprehension I'll be discussing how sequencing activities and parent read alouds improved my students' reading comprehension.

Callie Kiser NKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Tying Up Comprehension We will share various comprehension strategies for primary students including retelling strategies, graphic organizers, and vocabulary development for direct instruction and for use in literacy centers.

Jennifer Salsman, Caitlin Adams, Jamila Jackson

UK Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Exposure to Informational Text After looking at my students STAR data, I saw students were struggling in the area of reading informational text. Therefore, it has been my goal to bring in at least one informational text into the classroom each week. We will either be doing interactive projects with informational text or making connections between informational texts and the story of the week.

Jamie Lainhart NKU Comp Prim

KSRP

Colonel C

A Personalized Learning Approach to Literacy and Literacy Instructional Practices - Grades K - 2nd We will be discussing various aspects of our personalized learning approach to literacy and literacy instructional practices. We will focus on formative assessment used to guide instruction, weekly individualized student menus, literacy parent involvement activities, and internal lab visits to intentional model successful literacy instructional practices.

Shari Stauffer, Grace Dennis, Ashton Pitzer,

Kristen Keipper, Erica Schrage

NKU Other Prim

KSRP

Colonel C

Family Engagement in Literacy Our school increased family literacy engagement through comprehension focused family literacy nights. Join us to learn about the strategies and impacts of family literacy engagement.

Jessica Thomas, Rayegina Edens, Courtney Manies

UK Comp

Prim

KRP & KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Monitoring for Meaning This presentation is all about going deeper into guided reading with a focus on student monitoring. The presentation will explain the five different levels of student monitoring as they engage in reading text. Plus, it will explain the connection

Molly Clark WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

with a student’s monitoring level and student achievement.

Colonel C

Write to Prove Comprehension My presentation will be focused on a few of the actions I've taken to help improve comprehension for first graders. I will discuss the ways the RTA teacher and I have collaborated to help students express their comprehension through writing.

Shannon Taylor WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Rockbridge

Multimodal Stations: Reaching EVERY Student Multimodal stations are a great way to keep engagement and learning high, but how do they work with Special Education students and English Language Learners? Come join us as we look how to successful reach every student!

Jessica Atallah, Sarah Robinson EKU Other

MS

ALP

Steamboat

Draft like a Pro: Let the Authors be the Mentors Join me in this session to find out how mentor texts can help strengthen your students' writing. I will walk you through teaching students to read like a writer and explore the craft of writing. Students will learn to transfer these techniques into their own writing.

Jennifer Meyer UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

Teaching Reading Comprehension through Interactive Read Alouds Begin to plant the seeds of reading comprehension through fun and engaging Interactive Read Alouds in the Kindergarten Classroom!

Michelle Nichols, Jana Crabtree MuSU Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Steamboat

The Power of Daily Writing and Expectations This presentation will detail how daily writing and connecting to reading has improved students writing ability. Details will also be given on how a classroom writing rubric was made to provide expectations to students.

Brooke Moore NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Steamboat

Keepsake for Parents / Learning Tool for Students Family Journals are a great way to teach students letter format and writing conventions, while giving them an authentic writing experience to share with their families. Come see how I've incorporated the use of these journals into a fast-paced schedule and made it a memorable keepsake parents will want to save for years to come.

Paulette Whelan UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Thoroughbred

Inquiry and Literacy - the perfect tag team for Social Studies Inquiry learning is the disciplinary literacy teaching style that completes the social studies classroom. Come listen as two teachers tell of their successes

Kevin Presnell, Chris Dyal EKU R&W

Acr Curr

HS

ALP

and failures of implementation in their own classroom.

Thoroughbred

The Writing Journey: Genetic Engineering Argumentative Essay Students will use knowledge gained from reading research articles, and opinionated articles, to write an argumentative essay on the ethics of genetic engineering.

Cody Rich WKU Rel R&W

HS

ALP

Session C: 11:00 am – 11:30 am

Bluegrass A

Guiding Learners Through Guided Reading After analyzing MAP and STAR testing data, my instructional focus was to improve my students’ phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition skills. In this presentation, I will share with you how I implemented Literacy Centers and small group Guided Reading to promote these skills in my Kindergarten classroom.

Courtney Sizemore EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Increasing Student Performance through Guided Reading Groups Through guided reading groups, using the Jan Plan, and parent involvement, my goal for this project was to increase students' MAP test scores and get them out of the novice category.

Dawn Sexton KSU Phon EC

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

First Grade Word Study Words Their Way has been implemented this school year. Results, outcomes, things that went well, things that did not go well will be shared.

Lauren Cain, Contessa Harris EKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Word Work in the Classroom Based on the research I learned about vocabulary, I decided to do my Literacy Action Plan on using daily word work in my classroom to improve overall vocabulary knowledge. I started by assessing my students to determine their individual spelling needs. I used the Words Their Way spelling inventory to determine what spelling pattern skill each student needs to improve. Then, I used the data gathered from the spelling inventory to put my students into groups according to their needs. My presentation will be on my findings.

Hannah Harvey EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Word Sorts Through the results of the beginning of the year DSA, data showed that incoming 1st graders were lacking the phonemic awareness needed in order to be successful in phonics and word work by the end of first grade. Data showed that in order to

Kristin Coyle KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

increase student success, 1st grade teachers should implement specific skill focus and sound sort assessments to determine the gaps held by exiting kindergarteners.

Bluegrass B

Guided Reading in the Real World I will share my results implementing Jan Richardson's guided reading framework, using the Smekens model for literacy centers.

Sarah Chambliss NKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Maximizing Guided Reading Time to Close the Gap Using Jan Richardson, Orton Gillingham, Fundations, Phonics Dance, and Wonder Works during guided reading instruction to help make gains with African-American, EL, and Free/Reduced Lunch students.

Mareesa Welch, Leanna Todd,

Elizabeth Willoughby UK Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Words Their Way, Not Ours It’s no secret students learn in different ways and at different paces. As teachers, we differentiate our instruction in order to service the individual needs of our students. Learning spelling patterns should not an exception. Join me in this session to see how I implemented Words Their Way and made it manageable in my classroom.

Felicia Lemons UofL Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Family and Community Engagement Emphasis on bringing community/families together in the education of their child. Parents gain a sense of belonging and support in the educational process. Increase the percentage of students who are kindergarten ready.

Karen Galloway, Diane Smith, Lori Zastrow

UK Fam Eng EC

ELLP

Bluegrass C

Bluegrass C

Learning our Letters Teaching the alphabet in ECE: phonological awareness

Delania Hogue, Angel Reeder, Kim Weston

UK Phon EC

ELLP

Bluegrass C

Engaged Readers Become Eager Writers: Implementing Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum Join a primary teacher, intermediate teacher and a media specialist to transform your approach to reading and writing in content areas. Highlights include using digital text through powerful tools like EPIC to engage readers, implementing the PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model) technique to encourage developing writing to include content rich vocabulary, and extending learning into the library media center with effective collaboration.

Ashli Gore, Brittany Nowlin, Jennifer Tucker

MuSU R&W Acr Curr

Prim/Int

KRP

Bluegrass C Building Basics to Build Readers

Katie Dubs, Kaysin Higgins MuSU Phon Prim

Are you interested in amping up your students' understanding of foundational reading skills? Join us as we show you how implementing guided reading in a primary classroom and using a SOUND wall (not just a word wall) can help you! We'll also show you how integrating a supplemental, multi-sensory phonics program can help engage readers and writers in guided reading.

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

How to Improve Your Students' Writing During my presentation, I will be discussing ways to improve students' writing. The reading interventionist and I found some useful writing strategies to implement with my students to get their minds geared toward writing. We worked through the writing process with students as well.

Mindy Sauers WKU Writing Int

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Read Alouds and Taking Student Response Journals to the Next Level Read alouds are a wonderful way to launch students into writing and increase student vocabulary. In this session, I will share powerful read alouds and student writing samples. Join me in this session for read aloud ideas that you can take back and use in your classroom!

Emily Priddy UofL R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Word Work that Works! Come hear about how to incorporate word work strategies into your guided reading. These strategies range from levels K-2!

Misty Collins, Chelsea Parker,

Kelsey Carter MuSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA & KRP

Bluegrass C

Reading the World Through Our Senses Discover a new world of vocabulary through the senses! See how we have brought vocabulary instruction to life through implementing sensory vocabulary activities.

Heather Bond, Jacob Gilliam,

Susanne Leach, Sarah Whitt,

Nicole Flagher

MSU Vocab Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass D

Foundational Skills Differentiated Instruction I will present various strategies for differentiating foundational skills instruction including: phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition strategies.

Charity Young WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Using Big Books to Develop Literacy Concepts One of my long term goals in Kindergarten is to build a strong foundation in phonics, and strong rhyming ability for each student. To do this, students need a lot of exposure to and practice with letter and sound identification, beginning of sounding out words, and introduction to word families. One way to do this is through the use of

Candy Gray WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Big Books. Students will use pointers and sticky notes to underline letters or words depending on the activity. Students may also find sight words or spelling words. Concepts of print will also be taught using big books.

Bluegrass D

Concepts of Print in Kindergarten I will be presenting the way I have incorporated instructional strategies throughout the year to teach my Kindergarten students concepts of print. I will have pictures, student work, data and other materials to show what I have done with my students and how they have improved and developed concepts of print

Kristine Potter (Kris) WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Words Their Way…Our Way! Join us and learn about how we have implemented the word study program, Words Their Way with modifications to best suit the needs of our students. See how this program works in a kindergarten, first grade, and special education classroom. Words Their Way could be just what you need to meet the needs of your students.

Monica Cline, Alysia Salyers Johnson,

Rachael Fitzpatrick MSU Phon

Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Dr. Seuss Literacy Night Our school will be hosting a Dr. Seuss Literacy Night on Tuesday, February 26th. 2019. Each grade level will be participating. They will utilize a Dr. Seuss book and come up with a writing activity and/or craft that correlates to the book. All families are welcome to attend and will be notified of the event in ample time. Our goal is for all students to be sent home with a book that is appropriate for their grade level/age.

Courtney Chapman, Shelby Ryle,

Kaitlin Scheid NKU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass E

Growing Strong Writers Using Reading Strategies The focus of our presentation is how to use reading strategies to promote writing in the classroom. We will show how using vocabulary, sight word recognition, and other reading strategies promote reading and writing in the classroom.

Theresa Riddick, Casey Schweickart,

Carol Cox KSU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass E

Rocking Math & Science Vocabulary Teaching vocabulary in math and science through music.

Brittany Muncy, Heather Truett,

Ashley Judd, Jordan Poe

EKU R&W Acr Curr

Int

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Tying It All Together: Using Cordels to Enhance the Reading Experience Interested in learning about an easy way to enhance your elementary students’ reading experience by sparking meaningful book discussions? Come join us for a session on the use

Heather Hatcher, Laura Johnson UofL R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KSRP

of cordels in the elementary classroom. Librarians will also learn how to easily assemble cordel kits for circulation.

Bluegrass E

Intertwining Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum! Join us as we show you how, YOU can intertwine reading and writing across the curriculum to increase the success of your students!

Brittany Burton, Andrea Porter,

Kayla Bailey MSU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KSRP

Cardinal

Choice Boards in Science and Math Students gain a deeper understanding of all content areas through the use of choice boards in the classroom setting. Learn about the correlation between implementation of choice boards and assessment scores as students learn to navigate through grade level standards and content specific practices. (Ages 12-18)

Scott Ferguson, Floyd Broughton UofL R&W

Acr Curr

HS

ALP

Cardinal

Permission to Ponder Students will learn to slow down and think deeply as they talk, listen, and reflect for all grade levels.

Dana Bellair WKU Comp HS

ALP

Colonel A

Comprehension strategies combined with student interest to increase scores! You will learn about how I combined student interest and content standards to grow my students' comprehension results. How this began and simple steps to move forward in your own classroom.

Raychel Harrison UK Comp Int

KRP

Colonel A

Literacy Circles Examples and models of how I have used literacy circles In my 3rd grade classroom.

Elizabeth Mills EKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Conferring Within the Reading Workshop Building stamina and increasing engagement for readers within the workshop model is so important for students to feel successful. I have been using Lucy Calkins' reading units to guide my reading workshop and my co-teacher and I have used conferring to assess students in an authentic format.

Laura Cole KSU Comp Int

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Guided Reading Our school has focused on implementing guided reading into 1st-3rd grades. We have followed Jan Richardson’s plan and started using Literacy footprints as a framework.

Devin Farthing EKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B Building Background Knowledge with Nonfiction Katie James NKU Comp

Prim

KRP

My presentation will cover my work over the course of the year with a group of 4 second graders. This year we have used nonfiction to help build background knowledge to improve comprehension.

Colonel B

Comprehension Strategies in Guided Reading Groups using Jan Richardson Next Steps Forward Stop by to see how using Jan Richardson comprehension strategies in guided reading groups work in primary classrooms. We focus on the 5 Finger Retell strategy and using transition through writing help to retell a story.

Kelli Coleman, Kristie Rudmann KSU Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Comprehension through the Implementation of Anchor Charts Our group has been implementing anchor charts in whole group and small group reading to further student use of comprehension strategies.

Jameisha Smith, Emily Simpson, Jackie Williams

UK Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Annotations Use text, images, and symbols to leave tracks of thinking. We will show a primary AND intermediate version of annotation to increase comprehension.

Morgan Davis, Karissa Sherman,

Amy Hickman, Emily Barker,

Heather Redman

NKU Comp Prim

KSRP

Colonel C

Making Reading Lit Giving students a choice and making reading Lit by using Literature Circles. Hear how we use Literature Circles in our classrooms to help improve engagement, reading stamina, reading comprehension, and behavior.

Marissa Cooke, Jalyn Savage WKU Lit

Circles

Int

KRP

Colonel C

Baby Shark - Word Nerds Doo Doo Doo Doo I will present my weekly literacy schedule which includes explicit vocabulary instruction. I will show pictures of word nerd activities embedded in my instruction. Examples include: Vocabulary Journals, Frayer model on smartboard, chain link game, drawings of vocab words, Inferencing charts, and assessment strategies. I will present student data showing growth in vocabulary acquisition.

Tiffany Ashley WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Running Records I will be presenting on how I use running records in my Daily 5 rotations.

Michele Richardson WKU Fluency Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Differentiated Comprehension Centers Please come and share with me the discovery of daily reading and writing centers that are differentiated to meet the needs of every student. The centers are meaningful and structured while leading towards improved reading comprehension

Constance Vaught UofL Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

with less planning and grading time for you each week.

Rockbridge

Reading About Chemistry Outside the Textbook Increasingly, students are not reading/comprehending the information presented in the chemistry textbook format. One reason may be the perception that chemistry is difficult or boring to adolescents. By incorporating popular fiction and nonfiction works into the curriculum, students are more likely to engage in reading.

Susan Morgan WKU R&W Acr Curr

HS

ALP

Steamboat

Making the Most of Guided Reading I will focus on the structure of time, differentiation, comprehension, vocabulary, and word work to meet the needs of my students using guided reading.

Victoria Epperson EKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

The Reciprocal Process of Writing and Reading Reading and writing are nearly a reciprocal process. As you improve one, the other nearly always follows. During this school year, writing in classroom journals has allowed students to express their learning and understand on a variety of genres and topics. They also have communicated their weekly learning with parents in their at home journals. Students reflect on the learning targets and skills they acquired in the past week and parents respond over the weekend. Finally, students explored fiction and non-fiction text in almost a 50/50 split during read alouds, small group level readers, and independent reading. Students were able to teach others their learning and share new facts and ideas.

Katy Wall, Samantha Reynolds NKU Rel

R&W

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

"Share Chair" for the Win and Grin! Join me in this session and learn how I took the overwhelming feeling of a classroom of children always wanting to read to ME and created a “Share Chair” that allowed each student the opportunity to share what they were reading or writing to their classmates and me! The Share Chair became the highlight of the day! Also enter a raffle to win your own “Share Chair” stool to incorporate in your own classroom!

Julie Heard UofL R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

You Have the Write to Read Investigate ways to incorporate reading and writing into your daily routine outside of the writing block. Topics include: Jan Richardson small group reading, guided/modeled/interactive writing,

Mandy Blanton WKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Patterns of Power, and article-a-day from Readworks.

Steamboat

Where We're From-Poetry in 4th Grade 4th grade students explored poetry, created their own "Where I'm From" poems (inspired by George Ella Lyon), and participated in a family poetry night at school. Join us for details and ideas from our project for engaging upper elementary students in poetry.

Danielle Spencer EKU Rel R&W

Int

KSRP

Thoroughbred

Soft Start Integration in both an Elementary and Middle School Setting Myself and Mrs. Cooper will be presenting on the ways in which we have integrated silent reading in our classrooms. Each of us have faced different obstacles in terms of motivation, buy in and getting materials. We will each discuss the ways in which we integrate reading into our content and classrooms as well as what we would change.

Abby Brinkman, Stacey Cooper NKU Comp

MS

ALP

Thoroughbred

Book Clubs and Google Classroom To encourage reading and discussion in our school, a variety book clubs were organized and students were invited to join them. These clubs were conducted through a hybrid model with the majority of discussion taking place through Google Classroom along with some face-to-face meetings.

Shelby Loyd NKU Comp HS

ALP

Session D: 11:40 – 12:10 pm

Bluegrass A

Real Choice Creates Real Talk about Real Books that Kids Really Like Classroom libraries and literature circles are perfect venues for students to be in charge of their own literacy learning. Come learn how first graders decided on what books to have in the classroom library and how third graders moved beyond literature circle “roles” to have meaningful conversations about books.

Shaina Harrell, Amy Danino Goldstein UofL Comp

Prim/Int

KRP

Bluegrass A

STAR Data and Reading Fluency Data from Star Testing was analyzed at the beginning of they year and were grouped based on their scores. During the year students have used various strategies to improve both reading comprehension and fluency. Star Data will be analyzed at the end of the year to assess growth.

Cindy Krohn WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A Implementing Anchor Charts- Whole Group, Small Group, and Family Connection

Sarah Chase, Lyndsey Teegarden,

Sara Burke UK Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Presenting and using anchor charts in the whole group setting to emphasize reading comprehension skills. Then taking those same anchor charts and using them in small group settings. Also, sending home anchor charts, for families to reference while reading at home.

Bluegrass A

Bringing Excitement Back into Shared Reading Are you having difficulty keeping your student’s attention with shared reading content? Join me as we explore a creative way to bring engagement and excitement into learning. I will walk you through an easy 4 step process that will help you teach Shared Reading. You will be given ideas and tips that you can take back to the classroom and use immediately. So join me as we make shared reading come alive!

Barbie Revels UofL Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Strategies to Promote Reading Comprehension & Fluency We will discuss how implementing different instructional strategies, such as guided reading groups, letter sound correspondence, reading with prompting, sound boxes, and guided writing improves students ability to fluently read and comprehend grade level text.

Hannah Starner, Amy Allan,

Danielle Young KSU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Rise Groups In my class we have followed Jan Richardson's rise program for intervention with my students on the borderline of proficiency. We have four teachers where two groups rotate. We have seen so much progress in the groups.

Shelby Abrams NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Your Kindergarten Students CAN Be Writers! Join me in this session to learn the components of The Writer’s Workshop and how it works in a Kindergarten classroom. I will share with you time management and scheduling considerations, anchor charts, and loads of student work that will give you ideas for your own practice. I will also provide a fantastic resource list that will surely aid you in planning engaging lessons aimed at developing your students into confident writers. Yes, your kindergarten students CAN be writers!

Lauren Abbott UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Literacy Block for Grades 3-5 This year our 4th grade switched to a literacy block, combining reading and writing into a 2 hour block, instead of separate 50 minute blocks. This has allowed us to efficiently utilize small groups,

Danielle Brown UofL Rel R&W

Int

KSRP

writing workshops, and delve deeper into the relationship between reading and writing.

Bluegrass B

A Personalized Learning Approach to Literacy and Literacy Instructional Practices - Grades 3rd - 5th We will be discussing various aspects of our personalized learning approach to literacy and literacy instructional practices. We will focus on formative assessment used to guide instruction, weekly individualized student menus, literacy parent involvement activities, and internal lab visits to intentional model successful literacy instructional practices.

Katrina Rechtin, Sara Teegarden,

Regina Welscher, Rachel Medley,

Allison Craig

NKU Other

Int

KSRP & KRP

Bluegrass C

Thinking Through the Daily 5 We will be presenting a variety of graphic organizers used for comprehension, examples of family homework projects, how we use 5 star writing, examples of weekly reading homework passages, videos of our fifth grade peer tutoring reading program, and our schedule and implementation of the daily 5 with individual and leveled book bins and work for students.

Jennifer West, Summer Sands,

Jennifer Stafford NKU Comp

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C

Strategies for Increasing Reading Comprehension Teachers will present on the implementation of specific strategies used to increase reading comprehension. The strategies were implemented during both whole and small group instruction.

Telia Arnold, Lisa Saylor,

Lisa Moberly UK Comp

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C

Reading, Reflecting, and Relating: Increasing Student Accountability in SSR Engagement Books are out, students are quiet, and you hear the sound of turning pages. In the back of your mind, you wonder if your students are REALLY reading. Join me as I share student accountability strategies that create a culture for reading, increase independent reading engagement, and strengthen classroom community.

Kiara Rollerson UofL Comp Int

KRP

Bluegrass C

Focus! Attention on Comprehension If you are like we were, you are frustrated with students who can read words but lack comprehension skills. You aren't alone! Come join us for two easy strategies to incorporate daily to help drive student growth in the area of comprehension. In our session, we will be sharing how utilizing comprehension 'task cards' and Shared Reading can effectively grow students' comprehension skills.

Magen Washburn, Ashley Artis MuSU Comp

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C Talk Moves and Guided Reading Group Strategies Allison Edeburn Ward KSU Comp Prim

Implement talk moves or student led discussion in guided reading groups. Use research based practices to teach students to decode words, read more fluently, and improve comprehension skills using Jan Richardson’s Next Steps Forward in Guided Reading.

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Comprehending Texts Through Making Connections In this presentation, I will discuss the strategies, tools, materials I have used throughout the year to engage students in reading diverse texts, help them make connections to their reading, and develop their understanding and comprehension.

Kayla Steber KSU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Flipgrid for Fluency Monitoring and improving fluency is vital in reading instruction, but can be as mundane for students as it is for us as educators. Flipgrid allows students to record and listen to themselves reading, while adding some fun technology to the practice! In this session, I will share how to use flipgrid with your students, as well as how to use google forms to monitor independent reading in your classroom.

Samantha Seger UofL Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Guided Reading in Primary Grades Guided Reading is a valuable component of a comprehensive literacy program in primary classrooms. Teachers are able to respond flexibly to the needs of individuals and small groups, making on-the-spot teaching decisions based on student reading behaviors. Our ultimate goal is to improve students' reading comprehension.

Sara Sexton, Emma Fraley, Amber Kerr

EKU Comp Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass C

Making Students' Thinking Visible How can you improve students’ comprehension and the ability to think about their reading? Our focus will be on the implementation of ERT’s (Everyone Read To) with metacognitive stems.

Pam Lewis, Brandi Thomas, Saundrea Yoak

MSU Comp Int

KSRP

Bluegrass D

Creating Writers A presentation on how my students learned to express their opinions, share information, write creatively, and tell about life experiences by adding guided writing to my literacy instruction.

Jamie Putman WKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Supporting Students Through Mastery Experiences Supporting students through mastery experiences to build confidence and grow guided reading levels.

Rachel Newsome WKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D Vocabulary Haylee McGaw WKU Vocab Prim

The presenter will be sharing strategies she uses in the classroom to teach vocabulary.

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Classroom to Kitchen Table Join us to see the amazing effects of how involving parents in nightly read alouds with their children increases vocabulary, reading comprehension, relationships and an overall love of reading. In this session, we will share how utilizing read aloud folders in our 1-2 classrooms transformed the culture of reading.

Heather Gibbons, Tisha McGuire,

Lindsey Neal UofL Fam Eng

Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Visual Phonics and Text Rich Environment Breathitt County Early Language Learning Project is implementing Visual Phonics, Community Partners, and Writing for the Learning Action Plan. Visual Phonics will be implemented in Preschool county-wide, Community Partners have worked with school staff to create Countdown to Kindergarten program county-wide and Matt Glover's Already Ready is being implemented in Kindergarten at LBJ Elementary.

Crystal Strong, Tina Coyle,

Rachel Jude, LaTasha Kendall,

Mary Sloas, Carolyn Smith

UK Phon EC

ELLP

Bluegrass E

PLC's and Family Engagement To increase the number of students who are kindergarten ready, Hart County worked to create a system of systems that work in unison to prepare the birth to 5 population for kindergarten to and to provide families of these children with early literacy resources and strategies they need to prepare their children even earlier.

Carri Goodman, Susan Rowe UK Fam Eng

EC

ELLP

Bluegrass E

Fine Motor Bags Implementing and improving fine motor skills are musts throughout preschool. Fine motor bags were created to help students practice skills in and outside of school. The bags include simple but engaging and fun activities for preschoolers!

Shannon Hansman, Miranda Smith

(will not be present but information will be

available at table)

UK Other EC

ELLP

Bluegrass E

Engaging writers of ALL ages with Mentor Sentences Mentor sentences are a wonderful way to show students how writing should look. The idea behind mentor sentences is that students will notice all the good things about sentences and use techniques in their own way to present grammar in a spiral method. Students can share their writing through technology, such as Seesaw. Students can use Seesaw to help them revise and edit their own work in a fun way.

Paula Manlove, Amanda Bishop,

Stacey Smith MuSU R & W

Acr Curr

Int

KRP4RTA & KRP

Cardinal Voice Choice in Math and Science

Caty Hawkins, Kristian Hellard UofL R&W

Acr Curr MS

Students gain a deeper understanding of all content areas through the use of choice boards in the classroom setting. Learn about the correlation between implementation of choice boards and assessment scores as students learn to navigate through grade level standards and content specific practices.

ALP

Cardinal

Embedded Nonfiction and The Hate U Give My presentation will focus on activating prior knowledge and providing background information with embedded nonfiction before we start reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Students have read nonfiction articles and watched documentaries that discuss institutional racism, and then presented the information they found to their peers. We used the articles and documentaries to guide our class discussion on racism before diving into THUG.

Tiana Allen WKU Comp HS

ALP

Colonel A

Increase Phonemic Awareness in Kindergarten Preview kindergarten classroom phonemic growth from beginning of year to present. Review activities utilized as a result of KRP experience. Discuss what did and did not work.

Kylie King, Candice York EKU Phon

Prim

KRP & KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Fun With Phonics "Words Their Way" During my session I will focus on the importance of building a strong foundation in phonemic awareness and phonics in order to promote strong readers. I will be sharing different strategies that I have used throughout the year to teach phonemic awareness and phonics in my first grade classroom. Using phonemic awareness and phonics to recognize words using sorts from "Words Their Way".

Kara Kilgore EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Wat U Sed - the Importance of Oral Language My LAP focuses on the importance of language acquisition at home and how this use of language has an impact on reading and writing in kindergarten. (Students who speak in mostly slang terms have a difficult time learning how to read and write while students who speak a "more proper" English have an easier time learning how to read and write.)

Karen Jenkins WKU Phon EC

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Phonics Implementation Through Intervention Phonics was implementation was done by using Fountas and Pinnell's "Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System" through our WIN (What I Need) Time. Students are placed into groups using

Sarah Anglin EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Fountas and Pinnell's reading levels and then split into 3 groups ( High, Middle, Low). Students are split among three teachers and phonics instruction is given based on the needs of the reading level.

Colonel B

Making a Difference with Guided Reading Throughout this school year, I have incorporated guided reading into my daily reading instruction. This presentation will give details about the impact this change has made on my students progress and growth, as well as provide some resources that I have found to be helpful through this learning process.

Sarah Kessinger KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Parent Communication and Developing Reading Skills and Comprehension To meet the needs of my action plan set for the school year, I will cover the communication method I use with classroom parents, homework skill bags used for increasing letter/sound knowledge and methods used for increasing reading comprehension.

Claire Wyatt NKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Kindergarten Foundational Skills Our group will focus on reading foundational standards covered in kindergarten. Topic of instruction will include small group instruction, word recognition, and letter recognition.

Jennifer Bunch, Shannon Harover,

Remi Niehaus, Kenzie Mills

UK Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

PHONICS! PHONICS! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Phonics is the key to students’ success in being able to read. Without understanding and knowing letters and what sounds letters make individually and together, reading would not be possible. Come join me and see how I implemented phonics journals into small group instruction to increase students reading levels and abilities to read

Rachel Merideth UofL Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Personal Word Wall/Interactive Word Wall File folder that contains words that students don't know from the first grade high frequency word list. This is different for each student depending on their knowledge of the word. Students practice the word until they have learned the word then they are given three new words.

Cynthia Duncan, Brandi Lemay WKU Phon

Prim

KRP

Colonel C

Using Student Data Folders to Track Progress The presenter will discuss the impact of sight word take home folders on student learning and progress. The presenter will inform how to implement the folders and the impact on student reading through use of such folders.

Chelsi Meredith WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

EL Education's Foundational Strategies in Kindergarten I will be explaining the different strategies presented in the EL Education's phonics programs and the effectiveness of those strategies in a Kindergarten classroom. These strategies focus on the necessary foundation skills needed in the primary grades.

Kirsten Ward WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Phonics is No Prob-llama! Are you looking for a way to make phonics stick? Do you need fun phonics activities to keep students engaged? With Words Their Way there will be less drama and Teacher Llama will have to prob-llama!

Micah Davis, Heather Cassady,

Wanda Kirk, Gamble May Debbie May

MSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA & KSRP

Rockbridge

Flash Debates in a Social Studies Classroom I will be presenting a lesson utilizing flash debates to encourage literacy skills in relation to forming verbal and written arguments. This lesson was taught in an AP Human Geography classroom and deals with the topic of global territorial conflict.

Blake Settle WKU R&W Acr Curr

HS

ALP

Steamboat

Connecting the Dots with Nonfiction Text In this research project, I focused on writing across the curriculum with male readers who struggle in Reading over a 12 week period. During this time, students were given nonfiction passages and modeling for constructed responses. In addition, students shared their accomplishments in communication journals with their families.

Allyson Murray NKU R&W Acr Curr

Int

KRP

Steamboat

"Exploration Circles": Using Inquiry to Guide Science and Social Studies Learning Join me in this session as you learn to use non-fiction book clubs, inquiry, and research to guide student learning about science and social studies content. I will walk you through how I have taught my science and social studies lessons using book clubs to offer my students choice, motivation to read and research, and opportunities to share authentic research projects.

Megan McClain UofL R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

"Snooping" in The Write Place Engaging students: Differentiated literacy stations concentrating on four components reading, comprehension and writing development. Strengthening Family and Community involvement within the classroom.

Heidi Mullins NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Steamboat Guiding Readers to Success

Lisa Alford, Sydney Cox

UofL & KSU

R&W Acr Curr

Prim

Come watch and be engaged with young readers as they strive for success in Guided Reading! In this session, we will share short video clips of Day 1, Emergent Reader and Day 2, Early Reader lessons with our first grade students. We will share it's impact and success within our classrooms.

KRP4RTA

Steamboat

Writing to Learn Writing is the foundation for communication and thinking skills. This presentation will provide strategies to help students organize their thoughts and write to learn across the curriculum.

Kim Collins, Mary Raper, Crystal Akers

MSU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA & KSRP

Thoroughbred

Finding Science in Your Students' Lives Many students share a common misconception that they will never use science in their adult life. Deeper learning experiences address this notion. Our classes have been finding the science in their everyday life through SciJourn, a scientific journal, that publishes student work from across the country. Our students have researched, designed and published articles on a science topic that is meaningful to them. Through this process students developed a deeper understanding of the scientific world around them!

Kayleigh Graves UofL R&W Acr Curr

MS

ALP

Thoroughbred

Writing Into Every Day Improving fluency, idea generation, and critical thinking with daily writing routines. Students learn basic writing structures to respond to a variety of texts including nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Throughout the year, students develop confidence and fluency in writing while engaging in critical thinking about complex ideas. Students take ownership over the learning by contributing texts and questions for the class.

Tamara Cady NKU Rel R&W

HS

ALP

Session E: 1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Bluegrass A

Words Their Way in 1st Grade 1st grade teachers have collaborated with the Reading Recovery teacher and the Words Their Way program for implementation during Guided Reading.

Sarah Sturgeon, Sesily Vinson,

Autumn Sexton, Dana Hill

EKU Phon

Prim

KRP & KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Words Words Words In this presentation I will show how we have implemented the Words Their Way program in my classroom. The presentation will also include data to show how the program has improved student achievement in vocabulary and how that

Jessica Flannery EKU Phon

Int

KRP & KRP4RTA

achievement has effected, if in any way, comprehension.

Bluegrass A

Guided Reading in 1st Grade at PLE My presentation will be on the results/findings from the implementation of guided reading within my first grade classroom.

Geri Brumfield EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

It’s A Partner Reading Party in Third and Fourth Grade! You’re invited to learn how partner reading has promoted student relationships across grade levels and has improved confidence and reading experiences. Partner reading is important in developing confidence in students, improving communication and instructional skills, and introducing the real pleasure of reading.

Cassie Feese, Ashlea Hiser, Melanie Dakin

UofL Reading Eng

Int

KSRP

Bluegrass B

Increasing Student Performance in Reading through Improving Parental Involvement A how to guide on providing easy and accessible parent friendly resources that align with curriculum; as well as how to get parents into the classroom to support their young readers.

Sativa Thompson UK Phon Prim

KRP

Bluegrass B

Improving Foundational Skills Through Student Engagement Foundational Skills are needed in order for students to be independent readers. This presentation will show activities and lessons that will engage students in acquiring these needed skills.

Melissa Collins, Marcie Mazzetti UK Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass B

Working with Words Their Way Presentation will focus on how we utilized the Words Their Way Spelling Inventory in our classrooms. We will also discuss how we incorporated word sorts each week into our curriculum.

Leah Harrison, Jennifer Chumley EKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Reaching the Goal with Guided Reading My presentation focuses on the use of guided reading within the classroom.

Sydney Ikerd EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Engaging with Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Sight Word Recognition Engage students in phonics and phonemic awareness growth through the use of the Phonics Dance and "Phonemic Awareness: The Skills That They Need to Help Them Succeed!" by Michael Heggerty, Ed.D. This session will also include phonics, phonemic awareness, and sight word recognition as outlined by Jan Richardson.

Lisa Rose, Leslie Bruther KSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Budding with Comprehension and Vocabulary Using vocabulary and comprehension "growing together" strategies to show student growth in reading skills.

Skye Lynch MSU Comp Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C

Promoting Family Literacy How can we further support our students as readers? By promoting literacy at home! Ideas will be shared for the planning, implementation, and follow-up of school family literacy nights.

Katie Schuknecht WKU Comp Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C

Vamping up Vocabulary I will be discussing how I have used guided reading and the quiz, quiz, trade strategies to improve my students vocabulary and comprehension.

Ashley Phipps EKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Ready Readers Do you want extra time to work with your struggling readers to improve their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills? Then my modified Daily 5 Centers might be for you! I will discuss how I made schedule changes in order to meet on a daily basis with a small group of struggling students to improve their reading abilities.

Sarah Burns KSU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Making Connections-Teaching Students to Read Between the Lines Learn how to use graphic organizers and close reading strategies to help students improve comprehension. We will also be sharing some great ideas to incorporate family involvement.

Penny Preece, Amber Conley MSU Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Writing Across the Curriculum This year our school focused on writing, especially across the curriculum. We strive to encourage and help our students become better writers. This presentation will show every step in the writing process, including the final piece from our students informational piece about alternative energy sources.

Cassie Roberts, Kim Neff NKU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Reading Journals I will show how I have used reading journals to increase student reading comprehension and writing. I will also describe the guest reader program I started.

Caroline Bragg NKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Genre Book Tasting Students were given several books under different genres to preview and answer a few questions

Kelsey Graham UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

about. They were able to rate their interest in the book they selected. They rotated to different tables to interact with the books. Then they selected one book and read it at home with their families.

Bluegrass C

"Running" Your Instruction: Using Running Records to Increase Student Growth This session will focus on using running records to make instructional decisions to improve student comprehension and guide instruction.

Kaitlin Dorsey, Christy Wilson, Shawna Wilkins

UK Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Guided Reading in the Primary Classroom Presentation will include how kindergarten classrooms use guided reading everyday during literacy block and how students can be successful working independently while the teacher is engaged in guided reading lessons.

Rhonda Dotson, Elizabeth Caudill WKU Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass D

Family Literacy Night: Read Across America In celebration of Read Across America, we are hosting a family literacy night with the help of the librarian, FRC coordinator, and RTA teacher.

Alex McGaughey, Allie Clements NKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Kicking it in Kindergarten My presentation is about how I began implementing running records in my classroom.

Audrey Pendley WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Making Word Work, Work! Are you struggling to effectively manage and incorporate phonics work in your daily schedule? Are you wanting your word work to be better differentiated and more personalized for your students? Gain some helpful tips and tools for enhancing your word work time through a teacher’s experience using the Words Their Way curriculum and guides.

Phebe McGaha UofL Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

Making Words Their Way Our Way A revamped program moving away from traditional spelling lists to a more engaging, effective, intentional, and individualized systematic approach to word study.

Sarah Saunders, Megan Messer

MSU Phon

Prim/Int

KRP

Bluegrass E

Running Records: Quality Reading Assessment A running record is a technique (using a coding system) for capturing and recording oral reading behaviors. It is not a test, but an observation tool used to determine instructional and placement needs of students in reading. This discussion will be about how running records were used to guide my reading instruction.

Sabrina Ellis WKU Reading Assmt

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass E

From Tadpole to Frog: Making the “Leap” from Kindergarten to First Grade using multi-sensory phonics strategies Hop over to our table! Join us as we share ideas to transition multi-sensory strategies from Kindergarten to First Grade.

Heidi Outland, Marcy Sutton MuSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

Paving the way with Words Their Way! The structure of the Words Their Way word study program has made an impact on our students in second, third, and fourth grades. Join us as share how this differentiation has helped address the diverse needs of our students.

Emily Theinert, Caren Bush,

Sarah Willoughby MSU Phon

Prim/Int

KSRP

Bluegrass E

It Takes a Flock of Flamingos to Make Phonics Fun! Come see how a flock of flamingos (teaches, parents, and volunteers) implemented Words Their Way to differentiate instruction and enhance student learning.

Pam Mullins, Becky Cain,

Robynn Haney, Davida Carter

MSU Phon

Prim

KSRP & KRP4RTA

Cardinal

Writing in Kindergarten We will have a trifold board presentation along with student samples of writing journals, a pamphlet to hand out with information about how to use journals in Kindergarten. We also have student friendly rubrics to share.

Becky Lewis, Amy Gregory,

Chasidy Chriswell, Ashley Dunnington,

Jill Allen

MSU Rel R&W

EC

KSRP

Colonel A

“Read It Again!”: Creating a Culture of Reading in Kindergarten Join me in this session to learn how I fostered a love of reading by immersing my students in reading from the start. Not only did I read aloud every day and often, students had opportunities to share books with others and choose high-interest books beyond their independent levels.

Jennifer Williams UofL R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Colonel A

Home Journals Linking Home to School My presentation will discuss how home journals are an important link for school to home communication. I will share some ideas for hoke journals and how to implement them in your classroom.

Angela Staverman NKU R&W Acr Curr

Int

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Ready to Read! Engaging students through reading and writing across the curriculum. Students are given interactive notebooks to help strengthen writing in Science and Social Studies. Examples of how we have built on level Reading bins. These tubs change based on unit of study. They contain a variety of

Stephanie Jackson NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

fiction and non-fiction texts aligned with the unit they are studying. Students have their own bin directly linked to their reading level.

Colonel A

Writing in Math Being a departmentalized second grade math teacher, I had to be creative on how to incorporate writing into my daily routines. I have done this by having my students actually write out their steps they are completing on math problems.

Kim Lasley MSU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KSRP

Colonel B

Oral Language and Writing Journals We are utilizing journals in our preschool and kindergarten classrooms to promote writing skills. Also we have the children share some of their journal entries to strengthen the students oral language skills.

Andrea Williams, Pandora Jones UK

Oral Lang & Writing

EC

ELLP

Colonel B

Making Reading and Writing Relevant This year, my class has done many exciting things such as the Global Read Aloud to share our reading experiences with others around the globe. We have also done Family Journals to involve parents and make writing more authentic for the students. I will share some examples of things that worked in my classroom!

Brianna Gossett NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Creating a Love for Writing Writer’s notebooks are a great way to help students see themselves as writers and foster a love for writing. In this session, I will share with you how we set up our writer’s notebooks and use them in the classroom. Come see how you can make writing meaningful for your students, and help them create a love for writing.

Nikki Tackett UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Using Trait Based Books in Writing This presentation will include using the book, Month-by-Month Trait Based Writing Instruction. We will present ideas and examples of using this resource in the classroom. Participants will leave with some examples of writing instruction and graphic organizers to use in the classroom.

Jamie Reagan, Jamie Spears,

Megan McCutchen, Bethany Latham

MSU Rel R&W

Prim

KSRP

Colonel C

Growth in Preschool since August resources impact student achievement in literacy through data on a given assessment

Susie Lewellen (will not be present

but information will be available at table)

UK EC

ELLP

Colonel C

Stamina in the Classroom My presentation is about stamina in my first grade classroom! I have found the benefits of teaching

Rachel Collins WKU Stamina Prim

KRP

stamina even at a young age and I am looking forward to sharing my findings.

Colonel C

Guided Reading: A Potluck Lunch! Find out how host your own guided reading potluck, and serve your students exactly what they need on their plate!

Alyssa Vincent, Kiki Drexler WKU Rel

R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Interactions: Text, Talk, Task Presentation will focus on classroom use of a research proven, instructional model outlined in Rigorous Reading: 5 Access Points for Comprehending by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher. The purposeful implementation of this design helps students to achieve a deeper understanding of complex texts they are presented, and supports students to reach their full literacy potential.

Rhonda Shepperd, Karie Rains

MSU Wayne

Rel R&W

Int

KSRP

Steamboat

Talking Our Way to Literacy: The Oral Language Vocabulary Connection The importance of oral language and vocabulary understanding in preparing early learners for Kindergarten Readiness.

Kim Anderson, Rachel Smith,

Billie Webb UK Vocab

EC

ELLP

Steamboat Vocabulary Works Vocabulary strategies for all readers.

Tammy Purcell, Krista Horning UK Vocab

Prim

KRP

Steamboat

Striving Readers Don't Cry UNCLE! Wondering how to help ALL of your students improve in reading with all of their unique needs and reading levels? Come by and we will share how we have implemented guided reading and the huge difference it is making in our classrooms.

Tammy Malray, Stephanie Walker MuSU Phon

Int

KRP

Steamboat

Guided Reading During the 2018-2019 school year, I will increase my abilities to develop and support students’ reading proficiency through small-group differentiated instruction. I will target specific learning needs, provide appropriate scaffolding, and gradually reduce support to promote independence. Evidence will be through guided reading lesson plans, Reading Recovery trained mentor, running records, and self-reflections.

Abby Brown EKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Steamboat

Digging a Little Deeper for the Meaning Is your vocabulary instruction lacking depth and real world application? Come see how we have taken vocabulary meaning deeper by engaging students in effective, hands-on activities across grade levels and subject content.

Briana Adams, Shawna Young, Bobbi Harper

MSU Vocab Prim/Int

KSRP

Thoroughbred Letter Identification and Letter Sounds Carol Stewart, UK Phon EC

Letter identification and letter sounds are fundamental literacy skills that should be addressed in preschool classrooms. This session will explain how we implemented the Jan Richardson plan to address these skills in 5 preschool classrooms and the impact on student performance.

Carrie Tackett, Rebecca Cales, Misty Stewart,

Betty Lynn Easterling, Monica Carper, Nichole DeHart

ELLP

Session F: 2:25 – 2:55 pm

Bluegrass A

Phab Phonics Implementation of several research-based phonics strategies and teaching students skills to decode words.

Jaleesa Rudd, Kerri Henderson MSU Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass A

Words Their Way Will Change Your Way! Words Their Way is the quick and easy way! Learn how to increase phonics and phonological awareness across grade levels with true differentiation.

Heather Hess, Miranda Thomas,

Amanda Clark MSU Phon

Prim/Int

KRP

Bluegrass A

Jump Into Guided Reading We started a new reading program this year. I wanted to be able to incorporate it into my guided reading groups. Each group is set up differently by levels. I have been able to use Jan Richardson's guide with my EL education program. My students have made much growth since the beginning of the school year.

Jena Head WKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass A

Implementing the Guided Reading Model I will be presenting how the Guided Reading Model has improved my reading instruction within my classroom. In the past, I had used SRA (Reading Mastery.)

Ginny Logan Steenbergen WKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Family Engagement and Nonfiction Reading in The Primary Grades My team member and I incorporated 3 new ideas into our classrooms this year. We will be presenting about the following ideas: 1. Our Facebook pages that we created for either our grade level or our individual classrooms. 2. Family Writing Journals 3. Reading a nonfiction book to students at once or twice a week (or incorporated into centers) with summarizing activity.

Brittany Isaacs, Annie Means NKU R&W

Acr Curr

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass B

Book Clubs for All Want your students´ conversations to grow and have them fall in love with reading? Come learn how two teachers (1st grade and 4th grade)

Jackie Halligan, Brittanie Abell UofL R&W

Acr Curr

Prim/Int

KRP

coordinate book clubs in their classrooms, providing students with an array of choice in text and talk. Strategies will be shared to guide primary and intermediate learners in meaningful conversations.

Bluegrass B

Using Nonfiction Texts in the Content Areas to Improve Reading and Writing I will be going over how I increased the use of nonfiction texts from the content areas to improve reading and writing across the curriculum.

Ed Bonhaus NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

No More "Do We Have to Write?" Why is writing a paragraph so hard? My third graders were struggling with a basic 5-7 sentence paragraph. I decided to make writing fun and increase our writing in all content areas. To increase excitement, we wrote something fun everyday for morning work. We even included weekly family letters and shared family writing!

Jaclyn Spaulding UofL R&W Acr Curr

Int

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass B

Oh, the Things You'll Know! Find out how we’ve improved Writing instruction at our school. Learn how to include Words Their Way in the Daily 5. Get the truth about Family Poetry Journals. Walk away with a list of our favorite poems, ideas for using Words Their Way, and Genius Hour resources for your classroom.

Rachel Huff, Katlyn Williams, Heather Hensley

EKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KSRP & KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Strategies for Parent-Teacher Collaboration Collaboration is a key to success in education. We are focusing on making sure that students are set up for success via teacher collaboration as well as parent-teacher collaboration. We will discuss different phonemic and reading strategies we used to reach across subject areas and to help our students while working at home.

Dakota Yates, Gwen Martin UK Phon

Prim

KRP

Bluegrass C

Guided Reading Let us share with you how educators within the Whitley County School District are implementing new professional resources provided through the Kentucky Reading Project to move our reading instruction to a proficiency level. Over the past year, our teachers have cooperatively worked together to incorporate and implement guided reading techniques within our classrooms. Stop by and learn how these techniques have helped close the achievement gap for our students!

Lauren Lawson, Jeannette Howard,

Charlotte Giles, Jodie Gambrell, Tammy Fuson

EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C Sight Words Catesby Browning EKU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Using sight words to help improve student reading and writing.

Bluegrass C

Hunking and Chunking for Phonics Using rhythm, rhymes, movement and symbols to teach students to recognize and use blends and digraphs to decode words and increase reading fluency to aid in comprehension.

Chatty Lee KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Guided Reading the ‘Jan’ Way This project primarily targets guided Reading in a Kindergarten Classroom. It demonstrates the growth that was obtained during the 2018-2019 school year while using the Jan Richardson approach to both guided reading and centers. The growth data is shown through FAST Data, and DRA levels. I also will be demonstrating how to best set up centers and guided reading groups for this approach.

Melissa Duncan KSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Increasing Vocabulary I have focused on increasing vocabulary knowledge in my second grade classroom. I have implemented a program called Words Their Way along with other strategies. The presentation will show the progress my students have made this year.

Karen Greco EKU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Words with Friends We’ll model Jan Richardson’s Sight Word Review and Word Study from her lesson plan and then show how to apply that to guided writing.

Bethany Smith, Savannah Vice,

Debi Varney UK Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass C

Words Their Way During the 18-19 school year our third and fifth grade students have been following the Words Their Way practice to improve in the area of spelling. This is completed in word work centers daily. We will be looking at pre-assessment data, mid year data and end of year data to see student progress.

Letitia Daugherty, Whitney Webb EKU Phon

Int

KSRP

Bluegrass C

Wiki Sticks, Sand, and Sight Words, OH MY!: Multi-sensory Reading Strategies Visit this session to explore how sand, wiki sticks and more can enhance learning letters, sounds, CVC words and sight words in a kindergarten classroom. Get hands-on with engaging activities to use with your scholars.

Genelle Jones UofL Phon Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass D Writing is Fun! A scaffolded writing idea for k-2

Brenda Ryder NKU Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Keepin' it Real: The Guided Reading Puzzle Guided Reading, though an essential part of a primary classroom, has been considered a scheduling and planning nightmare for some teachers! How do you truly keep it real and organized? Listen to two teachers who have unlocked several keys to the Guided Reading puzzle!

Erin McCormick, Misty Miller WKU Rel

R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Learning Through Letters- Monday Message Journals What's a better way to improve literacy and writing skills, all while engaging and communicating with family members weekly through letter writing? Monday Message Journals are done weekly in my classroom, where every child writes a letter home at the beginning of each week, and gets a response by the end of the week. In my session, I will share with you examples of real student work and parent/family responses, and the best way to get this started in your own room!

Jordan Schappacher UofL Rel R&W

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass D

Writing for Comprehension We will be presenting how to incorporate story elements into the writing process. We will share how we have used the Writing Traits book, along with the Comprehension Toolkit to teach this process.

Savannah Wilson, Kia Wallen

MSU Wayne

Rel R&W

Prim

KSRP

Bluegrass E

Increasing Oral Language Development in Kindergartners Diagnosed with Autism Presentation on teaching oral language skills. Pictures and explanations of process used with children will be demonstrated and discussed.

Karen Poe WKU Oral Lang

EC

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

Increasing Vocabulary in Guided Reading Studies I will present various activities on how to teach kindergarten students ways to remember and use words in a guided reading lesson.

Jenny Stotts WKU Vocab Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

Book Bakery: Using Book Tastings to Encourage Reader’s Choice Join me for the sweet recipe to increase reading engagement. This bakery bakes up choice, novelty, and a variety of texts. The tasty titles will spark effective student-led discussions; leaving our students with a sugar-sweet feeling for reading.

Autumn Miles UofL Reading Eng

Prim

KRP4RTA

Bluegrass E

The Read Aloud: Is it Worth the Time? Most teachers understand the importance of reading aloud to their students. Research clearly

Josh Turner UofL Reading Eng

Int

KSRP

shows it to be beneficial. Yet, many schools are moving away from the Read Aloud. Come see what impact reinstituting Read Alouds had upon my 3rd grade students and classroom. You may be surprised!

Bluegrass E

From Equations to Sentences Join me as I tell you about my journey from teaching only mathematics to becoming a reading teacher. In this session, I will share my experience and various strategies that have shaped me into the reading teacher I am today.

Monica Spencer UofL Other Prim

KSRP

Cardinal

Walk This Way to Words "My" Way Early academic skills including phonics and phonological awareness have been shown to be significant predictors of future academic achievement. Come see how we incorporated the Words Their Way program to provide hands-on opportunities to develop a deeper understanding of phonics, spelling, and vocabulary.

Mary Lemaster, Marisa Brown,

Candace Duncil, Lea Ann Chapman,

Leighann Arnett

MSU Phon Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Exploring Vocabulary Presenting strategies that allow students to develop of deeper more meaningful understanding of vocabulary.

Jonna Brown EKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Read to Achieve Students are required to take the Star Reading Test three times a year. The first test, given in August, is given to set a baseline score for each child. After reviewing their scores, I found that several children struggle with reading comprehension.

Heather Lewis KSU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Flexible Reading Centers Increasing comprehension using reading centers, independent work, and the computer program ReadTheory. Using all of these strategies I will show teachers how to utilize them in the classroom to increase comprehension for students of all levels.

Ashley Cureton NKU Comp Int

KRP4RTA

Colonel A

Comprehension - Making Sense of Reading Comprehension makes reading much more interesting and engaging. We have implemented several different strategies across different grades to increase comprehension among our students.

Stephanie Cordle, Carol Barker, Chris Griffith

MSU Comp Prim

KSRP

Colonel B

Questioning My focus of my literacy action plan is incorporating different questioning skills in whole group and small group. Students are developing their own questions before, during, and after reading!

Laura Beth Saunier UK Comp Prim

KRP

Colonel B

Improving Reading Comprehension of Informational Text Students read a variety of informational texts in small reading groups to increase reading comprehension and vocabulary.

Lauren Barkley NKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

Reading Strategy Groups In this presentation, I will discuss how I have used reading strategy groups in my second grade classroom. During the presentation I will focus on the following topics: how I formed my groups, what type of activities we completed, and when we moved on or change groups.

Brandi Plumlee WKU Comp Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel B

"Anchoring Your Comprehension" Using Anchor Charts, Graphic Organizers, and Vocabulary Support *Increasing comprehension using student-created anchor charts *Graphic Organizers *Vocabulary support activities in small guided groups

Betsy Fredericks, Elizabeth Lehman,

Brittany Greene UK Comp

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Doing it Differently: Teaching Vocabulary in the Classroom Using different vocabulary strategies in the classroom to enhance student performance.

Dorothy Warren, Angela Murphy EKU Vocab

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Increasing Student Exposure to Non-Fiction Texts I will discuss my year long plan to expose my students to more informational and non-fiction texts.

Tricia Kues NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Teacher-Student Journals Teacher-Student Journals are a must for primary grades! Learning that writing can be used to communicate every day ideas and thoughts is a strong tool to teach students if you want them to develop an early love for writing. Teacher-Student Journals also help students learn the basics of writing and reading.

Emily Schroeder NKU R&W Acr Curr

Prim

KRP4RTA

Colonel C

Readers are Leaders Do you want to learn strategies to help create authentic readers? Authentic readers read a variety of texts for real purposes whether it be for pleasure, to be informed, or to perform a task. Join us to learn how we use skill based read alouds, book boxes, and cordells as we engage in 4th grade reading. You can even view some of our student samples!

Erica Stanley, Kimberly Wood UofL Reading

Eng

Int

KSRP

Steamboat

Learning ABC's: Nursery Rhymes and Me Emphasis on recognition of names, identifying letters and sounds. Using nursery rhymes in the classroom

Donna Hendrix, Jennifer James,

Jessica Hale UK Phon

EC

ELLP

Steamboat

Community Projects and Working with Parents Kindergarten readiness sessions; creation of county-wide mobile book lab and mobile storage units for IL books

Daphne Patton, Wendy Pelfrey UK Fam Eng

EC

ELLP

Steamboat

Phonics Strategies! Different strategies students can use to read words!

Brieanna Austin KSU Phon Primary

KRP

Steamboat

Thinking about Thinking: Comprehension Strategies for Teachers and Students Needing to improve your students as independent readers? Join us as we explain a way assess, evaluate, and teach your student to monitor their own comprehension.

Shawn Schuring, Hilary Moore,

Jennifer Caldwell MuSU Comp

Int

KRP & KRP4RTA

Steamboat

Fun with FRYs, Fonts, and Phonemes Fry Words, the importance of various Fonts, and Phonemic Awareness. Come see these motivational and instructional strategies we use to grow our students.

Jeannie Russell, Matt Moxley, Dana Welsh

MuSU Phon

Prim

KRP4RTA & KSRP

Thoroughbred

Phonological Awareness Increasing phonological awareness by using the Jan Richardson plan and the visual phonics combined with Phonics dance.

Jacqueline Lucas, Rachel Faulkner,

Melinda Spalding, Jill Brinegar, Lauri Smith, Kara Davies,

Kamerin Hall, Rebecca Mathieu

UK Phon EC

ELLP