Kelly Gallagher teaches English Language Arts at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California, where he has worked for nearly 35 years. He is the former co-director of the South Basin Writing Project at California State University, Long Beach, and the former president of the Secondary Reading Group for the International Literacy Association. Kelly is the author of several books on adolescent literacy, most notably Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It and Write Like This. Kelly’s latest book, co-written with Penny Kittle, is 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. Follow Kelly on Twitter @KellyGToGo, & visit him at www.kellygallagher.org.
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Moving Readers and Writers From Compliance to Engagement
Presented By
Kelly GallagherSession Details
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| September 30, 2019 | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
Location
Grade Levels
AllWith a focus on building reading lives that last, participants in this workshop will discuss the following:
- Strategies that enable students to move beyond surface-level comprehension and into deeper reading of difficult text
- Why teachers in all content areas should address reading motivation and recreational reading
- Understanding reading as a process, and how that helps improve student comprehension
- Understanding the importance of 2nd draft reading
- How writing deepens reading comprehension