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7:00am CST

Attendee Registration Imperial Foyer - 3rd Floor

8:00am CST

Coffee with Exhibitors Imperial Foyer - 3rd Floor Exhibits Open Imperial West - 3rd Floor

8:30am CST

General Session and Keynote - Jennifer Mathieu Imperial East - 3rd Floor

10:00am CST

Break With Exhibits / Book Signing in Exhibit Hall Imperial West - 3rd Floor

10:30am CST

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Using Illustration Study to Engage Young Writers Cottonwood - 3rd Floor Analysis and Argument: Document Based Questions in Literature Arboretum 5 - 2nd Floor I Read Dr. Seuss’s Love Letters! Window Box - 2nd Floor Keeping Up with the Mentor Text Joneses Arboretum 4- 2nd Floor Out with the Old and in with the New: Using Social Media and PechaKucha to Develop Critical Thinking Arboretum 1-2 - 2nd Floor Situating the Essay: Harnessing Students’ Histories to Teach into the Future Arboretum 3 - 2nd Floor Students Own It! Creating the Self-Extending Learner Regency - 2nd Floor Taking Comprehension to New Heights: Engaging Literacy Stations for Middle School Readers and Writers Dogwood - 3rd Floor Teaching Where They Are: Using Digital Resources to Provide Feedback During the Writing Process Mesquite - 3rd Floor Using Graphic Novels to Support Reluctant Readers Redbud - 3rd Floor

11:45am CST

Saturday Luncheon with Christopher Paul Curtis (included in Full Conference Registration or Advance Ticket) Marketplace

1:00pm CST

Break With Exhibits / Book Signing in Exhibit Hall Imperial West - 3rd Floor

1:45pm CST

Balancing Difficulty and Complexity: College & Career Ready Classrooms  Window Box - 2nd Floor Conferences in the Writing Workshop: A Troubleshooting Guide Arboretum 5 - 2nd Floor Hip-Hop Music, a Catalyst for Incorporating Informational Texts: Tupac Shakur’s “Changes” Arboretum 3 - 2nd Floor Let’s Hear It for the Boys: Integrated Reading and Writing Strategies Designed Specifically with Boys in Mind Dogwood - 3rd Floor Literature of War Arboretum 4- 2nd Floor Reading History Like a Detective: Proclamations – Declarations – and Addresses OH MY! Cottonwood - 3rd Floor Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences and Beyond Regency - 2nd Floor TASA on iTunes U®: Transforming Teaching and Learning in ELA Mesquite - 3rd Floor The "How" for Teaching Narrative Writing Arboretum 1-2 - 2nd Floor Word by Word, Sentence by Sentence, Crafting Better Thinkers Redbud - 3rd Floor

3:00pm CST

50/50/50 -- Fifty Books in Fifty Minutes for TCTELA's 50th Regency - 2nd Floor Critical Thought from Self to System Arboretum 4- 2nd Floor Leveling Up: Effective Intervention for Students at Risk for EOC Failure Arboretum 5 - 2nd Floor Small Groups for Big Success: Remediation and Acceleration in the Secondary Classroom Arboretum 1-2 - 2nd Floor Stretching to Reach the Literacy STAARs Redbud - 3rd Floor The Sound of Sense: Putting Poetry at the Core of Literacy Instruction Dogwood - 3rd Floor Using Multimodal Texts to Teach Rhetorical Skills for Improving Students’ Comprehension and Writing Window Box - 2nd Floor Vocabulary Development: Foundation for Student Success Mesquite - 3rd Floor Writing Short: Beyond Elements-The Atoms of Style Cottonwood - 3rd Floor

4:15pm CST

All Aboard! Helping EVERY Young Reader and Writer to Board the Informational Text Express Regency - 2nd Floor Digital Writing: Epiphanies from Five Teachers Arboretum 1-2 - 2nd Floor Empowering Struggling Writers Through Film Window Box - 2nd Floor Inspiration: Chocolate Redbud - 3rd Floor It Really IS All About Them: Promoting Student Voice and Choice Mesquite - 3rd Floor Reader Response Using Multicultural Children's Literature Cottonwood - 3rd Floor Reading in the Deep Dogwood - 3rd Floor Student Voices Beyond the Classroom: Building Confidence and Independence Through Student Conferencing and Guided Inquiry Arboretum 3 - 2nd Floor Too LEGIT to Quit: Large Educational Group Instructional Techniques Arboretum 4- 2nd Floor Work in Progress: Building Bridges with Families and Community Members Through Reading and Writing Arboretum 5 - 2nd Floor

5:30pm CST

Rising Leaders and TCTELA Meet and Greet Schula's Steakhouse Couches A-B: 1st Floor

7:00pm CST

Poetry Reading Sandalwood - 4th Floor