2017 Alaska Cross Content Conference

The avalanche of critical information that educators need to know today to teach literacy is overwhelming. Come join us as Lori Oczkus shares practical proven ideas you can use tomorrow to boost the content area and fiction reading skills of all of your students, while meeting the challenges of the Common Core Standards. Lori will share her "Top Five" ideas every teacher must know for the hottest topics in literacy including; motivation, read aloud, guided reading, independent reading, comprehension strategies for close reading of informational texts, best tips for teaching fluency, vocabulary, and creative ways to accelerate learning for ELL and struggling students! Whether you are a veteran or a new teacher, you will leave with loads of new interactive content area lessons based on Lori's new book "Best Ever Literacy Survival Tips: 72 Lessons You Can't Teach Without". Tim Rasinski, says of Lori's work and book, "Lori does a masterful job of bridging the gap from research to the classroom. Her work is a wonderful example of the merging of the art and science of teaching literacy.