MARRE Conference

2024 Literacy Conference

Reading Recovery Educators, Interventionists, Title I & Classroom Teachers, Coaches, & Administrators

November 13 - 15, 2024

Double Tree by Hilton: Springfield, MO

Conference: November 14-15, 2024
Price: $250

Thursday, November 14
• Session 1

Michele Dufresne
- Choosing and Using Decodable Text
Jan Richardson
- Being Intentional and Strategic about Teaching Vocabulary

• Session 2

Michele Dufresne
- Making Meaning - The Heart of Every Lesson
Jennifer Burns
- Scaffolding Student Success: The Four Steps to Mastering Teacher Models

• Session 3

Donita Shaw
- Growing Reading Recovery Students' Writing Complexity Over a Series of Lessons
Jan Richarson
- Reading Intervention that Works

Friday, November 15
• Session 4

Sam Bommarito
- The Sciences of Reading: A Centrist Perspective
Stacie Finley
- Being a Writer and Teaching Writing: We Can Do Hard Things
Jennifer Burns
- Unleashing the Power of the Reading Journal: A Toolkit for Teachers

• Session 5

Sam Bommarito
- Performance-Based Instruction - Singing Our Way into Fluency and Comprehension
Adriana Howe and Kelly Schmmitz
- Ditch the Diorama! How to Implement the Comprehension Focus Group Model in the Classroom
Amy Dunn and Keisha Wurgler
- Empowering Student Writers Through Choice, Sentence Building, and Effective Revision

Our conference strives to meet the professional development needs of interventionists, classroom teachers, and Reading Recovery teachers. We want to help you assure high quality literacy instruction for the students you teach.

Conference Link: https://sites.google.com/view/marreconference/home

For questions about your registration process please email: olivecenter@okstate.edu.