Board Meeting Schedule 2007-2008

SWIDA General Membership Meeting
Following SWIDA Conference
Albuquerque Convention Center
February 22, 2008

Starting in September, all board meetings will be held in the MLTI Building.
All SWIDA members are welcome to attend board meetings.
3915 Carlisle Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM
(between Montgomery and Comanche – west side of the street)
Conference Committee will meet prior to some of the board meetings.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road SWIDA Conference 2008

The slides and handouts from the following presentations can be viewed by clicking on the title of the presentation or the various handouts mentioned below it.

• Dr. Anita Archer: Systematic Writing Instruction
  • Anita Archer Handout Writing Instruction (in Power Point)
  • Anita Archer Handout Rubrics (in PDF)
  • Anita Archer Handout Writing Examples (in PDF)
• Dr. Carol McDonald Connor: Multiple Sources of Influence on Preschoolers' Language & Literacy Development (in Power Point)
• Dr. Carol McDonald Connor: Child-by-instruction Interactions (in Power Point)
• Dr. Lydia H. Soifer: A Way with Words: Strategies for Vocabulary Development
  • Soifer A Way With Words (in Power Point)
  • Soifer Way With Words: Bibliography (in PDF)
  • NEW Dr. Lydia Soifer's Executive Functions (in Power Point)
  • NEW Dr. Lydia Soifer's Executive Functions: Bibliography (in PDF)
• Dr. Andrea Zevenbergen: Using Dialogic* Reading in Home and Early Childhood Education Settings
  • Zevenbergen Using Dialogic Reading (in Power Point)
  • Zevenbergen Dialogic Reading References (in PDF)
• Dr. Andrea Zevenbergen: Research Supporting the Use of Dialogic* Reading Strategies in Adult-Child Shared Book Reading
  • Zevenbergen Research (in Power Point)
  • NEW Zevenbergen Dr Research Studies (in PDF)
• Annemarie Cooke: DAISY, DAISY: Demystifying eBooks as a Vital Learning Tool for Struggling Readers (in Power Point)
• Laura Sena, OTR/L: The Top 5 Handwriting Problems... and What to Do About Them
  • Sena Strategies_for_Handwriting_Problems (in PDF)
  • Sena The Top 5 Handwriting Problems (in PDF)
• Laura Sena, OTR/L: Chalkboard Fun (in PDF)
• Greg Davis & Dr. Nikki Davis: Five Life Lessons of a Successful Dyslexic (in Power Point)
• Loulee Yen: Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) for Kindergarten and Grade 1 (in PDF)
• Loulee Yen: Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), Grades 2 through 6 (in PDF)
• NEW Martha Steger: Dyslexia 101 - The Nuts and Bolts of a Language Learning Difference (in PDF)

Reading Minds" SWIDA Branch Conference 2007

The slides from the following presentations can be viewed by clicking on the title of the presentation.

• Characteristics of the Dyslexic Learner - Karen Vickery
• Fresh AIR for Reading Fluency - Lynn Hoover
• Making Words Real for Young Children - Lynn Hoover
• What we have Learned in Twenty Years of Research - John Woodward
• Getting to High School Math - John Woodward
• Words, Words, Words - William Van Cleave
• Response to Intervention - Douglas Fuchs
• Adolescent Reading Issues - Laurie Cutting - e-mail requests to this presenter