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TWU Reading Department
schedules Summer Institute
6/10/05
DENTON — Helping children who struggle with reading
and writing is the focus of the Texas Woman’s University’s
Reading Department’s Summer Institute, scheduled Thursday
and Friday, June 16-17 on TWU’s Denton campus. Teams
of reading specialists, classroom teachers and administrators
from throughout Texas will construct a plan designed to ensure
literacy learning for all children in their schools.
The workshop, titled
“Readers and Writers Who Struggle: It Takes a Team,”
will be held in the Margo Jones Auditorium in the Music Building,
located at Oakland and Sawyer streets. Registration and check-in
will begin at 7:30 a.m. in the lobby area. Registration is
$240. To register, or for more information, contact the TWU
Office of Lifelong Learning at (800) 250-7808 or (940) 898-3408,
or go to www.twu.edu/o-ll/summerinstitute.htm.
The institute will
feature Eminent Scholars Carol Lyons and Billie Askew, and
will focus on Lyons’ research that recently was published
in “Teaching Struggling Readers … How to Use Brain-based
Research to Maximize Learning.” Participants will study
how to maximize student achievement by addressing issues related
to emotion, building on students’ strengths, language
and teaching and leadership. The content will focus on grades
K-3. Graduate credit is offered for the institute.
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Reading Recovery advanced training day set at TWU
DENTON —
Teachers trained in Reading Recovery/Descubriendo la Lectura
may attend an advanced teacher training session Wednesday,
June 15, at Texas Woman’s University. Check-in begins
at 8:15 a.m. on the second floor of the Administration Conference
Tower (ACT), located on Administration Drive on TWU’s
Denton campus.
Registration is
$120. To register, or for more information, contact the TWU
Office of Lifelong Learning at (800) 250-7808 or (940) 898-3408,
or go to www.twu.edu/o-ll/summerinstitute.htm.
The training session,
which is being held in conjunction with the TWU Reading Department’s
Summer Institute, will focus on ways to customize teaching
based on a close analysis of lesson records. Master’s
level credit is offered for this course. For more information,
contact the Reading Recovery Department at (940) 898-2441.
Reading Recovery
is designed to help children who have difficulty reading and
writing improve their skills. Most students who complete a
full Reading Recovery program can learn in a regular classroom
and don’t need additional remedial services.
TWU is one of 23
Reading Recovery university training centers in the United
States and one of only two universities in the U.S. providing
training for Descubriendo La Lectura, the Spanish language
version of Reading Recovery.
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For Further
Information Contact:
Karen Treat
Senior Copywriter
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: ktreat@twu.edu |
