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The Journey Begins With Literacy 41 st Annual SoMIRAC Conference. April 10 -12, 2013. Gary Schmidt. This is my new favorite author, such a great storyteller!. He signed my book!. Poet Brod Bagert. Gary Schmidt signing books. Readers Theatre. Avi Bruce Coville Cynthia deFelice
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The Journey Begins With Literacy41st Annual SoMIRAC Conference April 10 -12, 2013
Gary Schmidt • This is my new favorite author, such a great storyteller!
Poet Brod Bagert Gary Schmidt signing books
Readers Theatre Avi Bruce Coville Cynthia deFelice Sarah Weeks *No pictures were allowed but we snuck one anyway!
John Archambault This man loves to sing – “Oh What a Beautiful Morning”
Avi Avi has over 70 published books. He’s 75 years old and lives in Denver, CO. He’s moving to the top of a mountain 9,000 ft above town. He says he needs to focus on his writing!
Fred Bowen Nice man, lives in Silver Springs, Maryland. His son coaches baseball at St. Mary’s College.
Bruce Coville Lives in NY, use to be a teacher. He knew in 6th grade that he wanted to be a writer.
Suzanne LaFleur Lois Szymanski
Jennifer Keats Curtis Janie Suss
Avi Cynthia DeFelice Jordan Sonnenblick
An evening with the Authors Avi is texting under the table!
Ruth Culham Meeting the 4Ws of writing with CCSS
Dr. Timothy Shanahan Started his career as a 1st grade teacher, has published many teacher books. Meeting the challenges of Common Core – Shanahanonliteracy.com
Kylene Beers and Robert Probst Spoke about strategies for close reading
Going Home – We needed help! We came with one duffle bag each. Each of the tote bags is FILLED with free stuff we got to bring back to school!