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NCRA 52nd Annual North Carolina Reading Conference

North Carolina Reading Association
52nd Annual North Carolina Reading Conference
March 26-28, 2023
Benton Convention Center
Winston-Salem, NC
Your VOICE matters! Celebrating LITERACY!

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9:25am EDT

"Literacy Escape Rooms: Using Classroom and Digital Escape Rooms to Engage Students' Winston 1CRebecca Harper Culturally Responsive Literacy Leadership Winston 1AHeidi Perez Giving Your Culture A Voice Through Literacy Conference 1Chantae Reynolds • Kori Trainor How We Got to Now: Finding the Story that’s Underneath Twin City BoardroomD.J. Rogers Invisible Sentence: Recognizing, Supporting, and Advocating for Children of Incarcerated and Returning Parents Salem 3BMelissa Radcliff New Eyes: Examining Life Outside Our Own Winston 3BJennifer Joyner • Dana C Skinner • Beth White Pictures Are Worth Thousands of Words Salem 1CBeth Buchholz • Beth Frye • Matthew Hamm STEM & Literacy~The Perfect Blend of Engagement! Salem 3CLeslie Pope Yes They Can: Linking the WIDA Can Do Descriptors and Technology-Based Activities to Support Multilingual Learners Winston 3ATalia Cotton • Kenya Lawrence

10:50am EDT

Activating the Literacy Learning Ecosystem So That Each Student Becomes A Lifelong, Competent Reader Salem 3ASarah Bausell • Marie Himes • Hiller A. Spires Amazing Race Family Reading Night Piedmont 2Barbara Falkenbury Democracy and Social Justice: Using Argument in the Secondary Classroom Winston 1CRebecca Harper Examining LGBTQIA+ Issues and Race in Picturebooks: A Critical Content Analysis Approach Conference 1Olivia Fletcher • Julia Kearney • Jordan Kelberg • Virginia Meagher • Nermin Vehabovic • Morgan Wecht Getting our Multilingual Hands Dirty with Letter Sounds Ardmore 1Tori Mazur (she/her) History Stories that Affirm All Kids Salem 1CJudy Allen Dodson • Kelly Starling Lyons How we got to now: finding the story that’s underneath Twin City BoardroomD.J. Rogers I Write and Tell Because I See Me Winston 3AEmily Francis LIS for Prek-5: Aligned ELA Instruction in Action Winston 3CSarah Morrison • Mary Phillips • Jenni Wilkinson Looking at Literacy to Uncover Student Thinking Winston 3BCalvin Freeman • Alice Oakley • Sandra Webb Resources for finding Diverse Literature: Online resources for developing a diverse collection for your classroom or school library Salem 3BTammy Gruer

11:45am EDT

Author Panel Luncheon- prepaid event Piedmont Ballroom 1Dasan Ahanu • LeJuane Bowens • Annette Clapsaddle • Alan Gratz • Shannon Hitchcock

1:25pm EDT

General Session: Critical Comprehension: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning Salem Ballroom 2Lester Laminack • Katie Kelly • Katie Kelly • Lester Laminack

2:25pm EDT

Black and White and Read All Over Winston 1BAlan Gratz Brain Science to Build a Literacy Focused School Salem 3CHeidi Perez Diction, Rhythm, and Rhyme Twin City BoardroomAyanna Albertson Gay Fostering Collaboration with the Spoken Word Winston 1ADasan Ahanu Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global: Centering Student Voices in Inquiry-to-Action Salem 3ASarah Bausell • Marie Himes Scribbling Your Social Emotions! Conference 1Angela Kern Students as Storytellers Winston 1CShannon Hitchcock What Matters to Me? Ardmore 1Mary Hooks What's Next for This Beginning Writer? Conference 2Gin Hodge

3:25pm EDT

Beyond Ever After - Connecting Multicultural Picture Books and STEAM Salem 3ADr Diane Jackson Schnoor Building a Classroom Community through Literacy Salem 3CErin Kessel Celebrating Musical Voices: Integrating Picture Book Biographies with Musical Connections Salem 1BTonnye Williams Fletcher Defending Students’ Right to Read in Challenging Times Ardmore 1April Dawkins Honoring Authenticity to Shift Statics to Stories Winston 3AEmily Francis Setting: It’s more than “where it happened” Winston 1BLester Laminack Teaching Reading: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling? Winston 1AAmy Van Buren • Dr. Laura Staal The Living Story: Infusing physical sensation into our writing through practice, observation, and structure Winston 1CAnnette Clapsaddle Educators of Color Roundtable discussion Piedmont 2Alan R. Bailey • Talia Cotton