2009 Indiana Reading Summit
Thursday, October 1, 2009 • Indianapolis Museum of ArtInternational and national initiatives designed to help all children learn to read have been in the works for decades. Yet, we still face disappointing results in reading achievement.
In Indiana, only 75 percent of fourth graders are proficient in reading. By grade 8, that number drops to 68 percent. Nationally, more than six million high school students are struggling readers.
We must demand higher literacy skills for Hoosier students if they are to be prepared for the rigors of the 21st-century. High-quality reading instruction must be a primary focus throughout a student’s education.
On October 1, 2009 the Indiana Department of Education will host the first Indiana Reading Summit in Indianapolis. Nationally-recognized experts in literacy education will share research and best practices on reading and writing instruction. The goal of the summit is to ignite meaningful discussions and to encourage innovative and creative approaches to reading instruction.
If you would like to participate in the summit, there is still time to register. Contact Michael Landeck by e-mail at mlandeck@doe.in.gov before Tuesday, Sept. 21, to secure your place for this important event.
- Agenda and Announcements
- Speaker Bios
- G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D.
- Distinguished Professor and Chairman
Department of Education Policy and Leadership
Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development
Southern Methodist University - Joseph B. Morton
State Superintendent of Education, Alabama - Mel Riddile, Ed.D.
Associate Director for High School Services
National Association of Secondary School Principals - Steve Graham, Ed.D.
Curry Ingram Professor
Vanderbilt University - Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
- G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D.
- Background Materials
- Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
- National Reading Panel: Teaching Children To Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment Of The Scientific Research Literature On Reading And Its Implications For Reading Instruction (Summary)
- Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read
- A Child Becomes A Reader: Kindergarten Through Grade 3
- Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices
- What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy
- National Reading Panel: Teaching Children To Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment Of The Scientific Research Literature On Reading And Its Implications For Reading Instruction (Summary)
- A Critical Mission: Making Adolescent Reading an Immediate Priority in SREB States
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools
- Post Conference Materials (presentation slides)
- Closing the Reading Gap: Leadership, Rhetoric, and Reality, G. Reid Lyon, Ph. D
- A Good Start is Not Enough: Improving Reading Achievement for Older Readers, Timothy Shanahan, Ph. D.
- Literacy for Learning, Mel Riddle, Ed. D.
- Writing, Steve Graham, Ed. D.
- Alabama’s Statewide Literacy Efforts, Joseph B Morton:, Ph. D.
- Videos
- Six videos of select presentations are available for online viewing. NEW
