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Camino Real Council of the International Reading Association
in cooperation with Albuquerque Public Schools presents our
Sixteenth Annual CRC Literacy Fall Event
Saturday, October 20, 2007 7:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
Albuquerque High School 7801 Odelia NE Albuquerque, NM

• Stimulating keynote sessions

• Marvelous UNM Poetry Slam Team and AHS Poetry Club performances

• Stress-free browsing through wonderful materials and information from publishers

• Carry out Materials Fair items

• Win fabulous prizes.

• See what Reading Associations, Camino Real Council, NMIRA, and IRA offer you!

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about helping students excel in the area of literacy. Treat yourself to stimulating keynote sessions, stress-free browsing through wonderful materials and information from publishers, and several opportunities to win fabulous prizes. Don’t miss this great chance to join colleagues and friends in exploring ways to help our students become lifelong readers and to find out what Camino Real Reading Council and NMIRA have to offer!

Keynote Speaker: Max Brand MaxBrand

Max Brand currently teaches fifth grade in Dublin, Ohio. Max's teaching experience includes teaching in both inner city Columbus and in the suburbs of Columbus. He has worked as a classroom teacher (all grades at the elementary level except 4th), a Reading Recovery Teacher, and as a Teacher Leader for the Literacy Collaborative. Max is the author of 2 books, Word Savvy and Practical Fluency. He is working on a third book, Vocabulary Across the Curriculum which will be published in 2007, and he is also revising Essential Learning Products Spelling Series for grades 1-6.

Max Brand is the father of 3 school-age sons. His love of words is rekindled on a daily basis when his mother's words reverberate in his head, "Some day you'll get yours." Hiking, watching birds, playing ball with his sons and following the Boston Red Sox are how Max spends his leisure time.

Mr. Brand’s publications include:
* Vocabulary Across the Curriculum
* Practical Fluency Classroom Perspectives, Grades K-6
* Conferring with Boys (DVD)
* A Day of Words (video)
* Word Savvy Integrated Vocabulary, Spelling, & Word Study, Grades 3-6

KEYNOTE SESSION DESCRIPTIONS:

Reaching Higher: Developing Reading Strategies and Skills (K-6)

Students learn to read by reading and at the same time learn from their reading. Students need support, guidance and instruction while developing an efficient reading process. This session will explore how to use short texts, student selected materials and textbooks while helping learners become fluent readers that understand what they read, that have strategies to infer new and important vocabulary.

Reaching Higher: Digging Deep into the Text (7-12)

Students in middle and high school still need instruction while reading sophisticated novels, informational texts and other reading materials. Students need help in learning how to set purposes for their reading, especially informational texts assigned in class. Then students need an array of strategies that helps them notice, note and understand important information and vocabulary. This session will focus on using short texts, textbook passages and excerpts from novels to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.

WHAT A TREAT TO ENJOY LITERACY IN ACTION…

THE UNM POETRY SLAM TEAM AND

THE AHS POETY CLUB WILL PERFORM DURING THE FALL LITERACY EVENT!

Albuquerque High School Poetry Club

• The AHS Slam Team is three-time winner of the New Mexico High School Invitational Championship (2003, 2004, 2005) and won its first ever AHS Invitational tournament in 2005.

• AHS poets have participated in the following poetry conferences:

- New Mexico CultureNet's Poetry Jam (2002, 2003, 2004) in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Santa Fe respectively
- Brave New Voices 2004 in Los Angeles, Calif. And New York City Brave New Voices in 2006.

• The AHS Slam Team and its members have participated in competitions in Taos, Las Cruces, Espanola Santa Fe and
Albuquerque, NM, Los Angeles, Calif. San Francisco, Calif., and New York City

• AHS poets are also competing successfully in the Albuquerque Poetry Slam community. Past team member Esmé Vaandrager has earned spots on the 2004, 2005, 2006 Albuquerque Poetry Slam Team. Along with past AHS senior Joe Romero she also was a member of the ABQ Unidos Youth Poetry Slam Team that attended Brave New Voices in 2006.

• In 2005, the team also did presentations before:

          - APS and UNM instructors
          - AHS cluster instructors
          - classes at AHS as well as before several AHS theater productions

- The AHS Team also participated at the Outpost Production Space, participating in several productions of the Outpost's
"Roust the House" youth concerts in the past three years.

Damien Flores - the Master of Ceremonies for the AHS and UNM Slam Teams Poetry Presentation
Damien Flores is a graduate of AHS and has performed poetry across the nation. He was a member of the 2004 and 2006 Albuquerque Poetry Slam Teams and on the 2006 and 2007 UNM slam teams, taking first place in the 2006 College National Poetry Slam. His book of poetry, A Novena of Mud, was published by Destructible Heart Press in 2006 and he has been published in several anthologies including Earthships: a New Mecca Poetry Anthology by Horse and Tiger Press. He is currently an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico pursuing his BA in English.

Sara Bernstein - sponsor of the AHS Poetry Club and the Yucca Literary Magazine
She is the Language Arts Department Chair at AHS and teaches Creative Writing and AP Literature and Language. Her vision for the poetry club is to encourage the writing and performance of poetry and spoken word by teens at Albuquerque High School, foster literacy, to develop essential life and workplace communication skills, and to assist and support teachers in both classroom and non-classroom settings.

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