Dr. Janet Allen

The North Woods Partnership is very pleased to be able to sponsor a one- day workshop on November 12^th with Dr. Janet Allen on Creating Competent and Confident Readers: Strategies for Success. Janet Allen is an international consultant recognized for her literacy work with at-risk students. She is the author of On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades; Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading; and, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12; It’s Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy; and co-author of There’s Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School.

Janet taught high school reading and English in northern Maine from 1972 until 1992 when she relocated to Florida to teach English and reading education courses at the University of Central Florida.  During her tenure at UCF, she directed the Central Florida Writing Project and assisted in the creation of the Orange County Literacy Project. Dr. Allen has received several teaching awards including the Milken Foundation’s National Educator Award.

The November 12^th workshop - Creating Competent and Confident Readers: Strategies for Success – will be an interactive workshop that will highlight a variety of instructional strategies that will support and increase literacy levels for your students.  Janet will examine the research that details what gets in the way of reading for children and adolescents and demonstrate instruction that overcomes those roadblocks. Workshop participants will:

·        Engage in the four approaches to reading,

·        Examine research and practice for effective vocabulary instruction,

·        Participate in content reading and writing instructional strategies, and

·        Reflect on how these can be adapted for our schools and classrooms.