A Conference for Educators at All Grade Levels
Dedicated to the memory and legacy of Donald Graves

Saturday, March 31, 2012, 8:45  a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration at 8:15 a.m.
Kennett High School, 409 Eagles Way, North Conway

Presented in partnership with SAU 9, the conference features New Hampshire's nationally known author and outstanding educator Linda Rief, who will explain how the Writer’s-Reader’s Notebook has been crucial to the work she and her students do as both writers and readers. The notebook gives students a place to collect and develop their thinking and their voices and supports Linda’s unshakable belief that students’ voices need to be heard as they wonder, question, argue, reason, change their minds or affirm their thinking. The notebook provides a structure that gives consistency in form and function for students as learners and for her – and you – as a teacher.

Join us as we step inside the Writer’s-Reader’s Notebook and learn about:

• Keeping writing and reading central to all we do
• Introducing Wirter's-Reader's Notebooks to our students
• Using a Writer-Reader Notebook on a daily basis
• Finding and extending writing ideas
• Framing feedback that helps writers move the writing forward
• Writing from, and about, reading
• Assessing the Writer-Reader Notebook and final writing
• Extending the uses of a notebook

Linda Rief teaches 8^th grade at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, NH and is an instructor in the University of New Hampshire's Summer Literacy Institute. She is a national and international presenter on issues of adolescent literacy.

She is the author of 100 Quickwrites (Scholastic 2003), Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook (2007), Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents (1992), and Vision and Voice: Extending the Literacy Spectrum (1999), published by Heinemann. She is a co-author of Visual Tools for Differentiating Reading and Writing Instruction (Scholastic, 2008). She is a co-editor (Beers, Probst, and Rief) of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (Heinemann 2007) and for five years co-edited with Maureen Barbieri Voices from the Middle, a journal for middle school teachers published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

In 2000 she was the recipient of NCTE’s Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts. Her classroom was featured in the series Making Meaning in Literature produced by Maryland Public Television for Annenberg/CPB. For three years she chaired the first Early Adolescence English/Language Arts Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

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