Literacy Research Association Training
On Saturday, December 7, 2013, the Literacy Coalition of Greater Dallas, the Tarrant Literacy Coalition and LIFT will sponsor an afternoon of literacy workshops at the Dallas Public Library. The workshops will feature distinguished speakers who are part of the Literacy Research Association who will be in Dallas for the annual National Reading Conference that week at the Dallas Omni Hotel.
The speakers have all agreed to stay over on Saturday afternoon to lend their time and expertise to our literacy community.
Discussion topics may include:
· Family literacy
· Working with low level learners
· Language acquisition
· Teaching adults writing
· Reading and comprehension
· Literacy and technology
· Critical thinking skills for literacy students
· Teaching the teacher
The Literacy Research Association is a professional organization for individuals who share an interest in research and the dissemination of information about literacy and literacy instruction. LRA sponsors a conference each year during the first week in December. The program consists of keynote addresses by distinguished speakers, symposia, paper sessions, research reviews of current trends and issues, and alternative format sessions. In addition to sponsoring an annual conference, the organization publishes a quarterly journal, the Journal of Literacy Research (JLR), and the NRC Yearbook, which contains selected papers from the previous year's conference. For more information, see www.literacyresearchassociation.org
