MARRE Pre-Conference and Conference

2024 Literacy Conference

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

 November 13 - 15, 2024

 Double Tree by Hilton: Springfield, MO


Price: $350

Pre-conference

• Jan Richardson and Michele Dufresne
  • Bridging Reading Research and Practice

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