The 2006 January Early Literacy Conference

"In No More than Five Minutes..."
How to Get the Most from your Teaching Day:
A Workshop for Parents and Teachers of Young Children
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Presented by the Rice University's School Literacy and Culture Project

Keynote speaker: Patsy Cooper
Professor of Education, New York University
and founder of the Classroom Storytelling Project

Conference Information
Handouts and other information from the January 2006 conference:*

• Racing Against the Wrong Clock in Early Literacy Development: Rethinking Time in the Early Childhood Classroom (keynote address)

• Organize Now ... Save Time Later

• Making Every Moment Count in the Bilingual Classroom

• Autonomy, Problem Solving, and Sharing in the Early Childhood Classroom

• Learning Through Songs and Fingerplays

• From Experience to Expression
   Student Poems

• Building Community in the Classroom

• Research Bibliography

*(Handouts are in PDF format -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)