7:30 – 8:15
Registration and Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30
Welcome
Janet Losser
Utah Literacy Association President
8:30 – 9:30
Morning Keynote
Access to Books: Game
9:30 – 9:45
Vendor Exhibits & Transition Break
9:45 – 10:45
Featured Breakout Session (Grades K-2)
Teaching About and Through
9:45 – 10:45
Breakout Sessions (Grades 3+)
9:45 – 10:45
Some of Our Best Friends are Books: Writing with Mentors
— Text and Others
Nancy Peterson & Keri Meason
Utah Valley Unversity
Cedar Room
Leveraging Superheroes On and Off-Screen
10:45 – 11:00
Vendor Exhibits & Transition Break
11:00 – 11:45
Breakout Sessions (All Grades)
11:00 – 11:45
Time on Text: Using Eye-tracking Scan Paths to Understand Reading Stamina
Vocabulary Instruction: The Heart of Comprehension
11:45 – 12:00
Vendor Exhibits & Transition Break
12:00 – 1:15
Luncheon Program
12:00 – 1:15
InRIGORating ELA Notebooks and Journals
1:15 – 1:30
Vendor Exhibits & Transition Break
1:30 – 2:30
Featured Breakout Session (Grades 3+)
Putting Text Complexity in Context: Focusing on Comprehension of Complex Text
1:30 – 2:30
Breakout Sessions (Grades K-2)
2:30 – 2:45
Vendor Exhibits & Transition Break
2:45 – 3:45
Afternoon Keynote
The Vocabulary Revolution: New Understandings about How Words Work
3:45 – 4:00