Opening Ceremony (Auditorium Maximum, Humboldt University)

Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Christoph Markschies, President of the Humboldt University
PhD. Ann-Sofie Selin, Chair of International Development in Europe Committee
Prof. Dr. Renate Valtin, President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lesen und Schreiben

1st Plenary
Andreas Schleicher (Germany): Literacy Skills in the Information Age

Pirjo Linnakylä (Finland): How to Inspire and Engage Students to Read

Linda Gambrell, president International Reading Association & Ann-Sofie Selin, chair of the European Committee IDEC
Presentation of the Award for Innovative Reading Promotion in Europe

Room 1.101

11.00–12.30

Symposium

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Vorsitz: Wieler, Petra (Deutschland)

• Bonfadelli, Heinz (Schweiz)
  Leseverhalten von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Schweiz
  
• Wieler, Petra (Deutschland)
  Vorlesegespräche und Schülertexte aus einer vielsprachigen Grundschulklasse
  
• Wildemann, Anja (Deutschland)
  Eine Sprache – zwei Sprachen – drei Sprachen – keine Sprache. Zur Situation hörgeschädigter Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund.

Workshop

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Freihold, Sita (Deutschland)

• Freihold, Sita; Seewald, Karin (Deutschland)
  Die Rolle von Bibliotheken bei der Literacy-Förderung von Kindergartenkindern – Best-Practice-Beispiele aus Berlin und Bremen.

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Vorsitz: Conrady, Peter (Deutschland)

• Conrady, Peter; Sengelhoff, Barbara; Sommerfeld, Dagmar (Deutschland)
  Nicht durch Diagnosen kategorisieren, sondern fördern: Materialien zum ganzheitlichen Beobachten und Fördern von Kindern ab dem 4. Lebensjahr bis zur Mitte des 1. Schuljahres

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Présidence: Terwagne, Serge (Belgique)

• Terwagne, Serge (Belgique); Thévenaz-Christen, Thérèse (Suisse); Pasa, Laurence; Ragano, Serge (France)
  Usage de l’album de jeunesse dans l’apprentissage du lire-écrire. (Using text/picture books for early literacy learning.)

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Kleedorfer, Jutta (Austria)

• Slemenjak, Tanja (Slovenia)
  Giving a Text Voice – Aesthetic Reading in the Classroom
  
• Gavris-Pascu, Rodica-Gabriela (Romania)
  Drop Everything and Read – a Daily QualityTime
  
• Beach, John (USA)
  Checkpoint Comedy: Children‘s Literature‘s Hidden Treasure

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Chair: Dombey, Henrietta (United Kingdom)

• McVicker, Claudia (USA)
  How in the World Do British Children Learn to Read? The Literacy Hour: An Intercontinental Comparison of Reading Instruction of two U.K. & U.S.A.
  
• Lockwood, Michael (United Kingdom)
  Promoting Positive Attitudes to Reading in English Primary Schools: Responses to PIRLS 2001
  
• Damber, Ulla (Sweden)
  Beating the Odds not Easy but Possible: On 119 Grade 3 Classes in Stockholm Overachieving in Reading

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Selin, Ann-Sofie (Finland)

• Beach, Sara Ann (USA); Ward, Angela (Canada)
  Opportunity to Learn: Supporting Engagement in Literacy
  
• Gambrell, Linda B; Marinak, Barbara (USA)
  What Research Reveals About Reading Motivation
  
• Casangiu, Larusa Ileana (Romania)
  Students’ Attitude Toward Reading and Ways to Improve It

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Brozo, William (USA)

• Brozo, William; Moore, David; Moorman, Gary (USA); Petkoska, Anica (Macedonia)
  Building Reform Communities in International Literacy Projects

Schools where Literacy Thrives/ Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Greg Brooks (UK)

• Smetannikova, Natalia (Russia)
  Literacy in Education in Russia
  
• Potyaeva, Tatiana (Russia)
  Development of Policy in Support of Reading and Literacy in Moscow
  
• Mihailova, Nadezhda (Russia)
  Young Russia Reads

Preschool Literacy–Early Literacy
Chair: Goodmann, Yetta (USA)

• Goodmann, Yetta; Manning, Maryann; Flores, Barbara (USA)
  Constructivist Views of Early Literacy Development

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Heyne, Nora (Germany)

• Heyne, Nora; Helmke, Andreas; Kleinbub, Iris; Schrader, Friedrich-Wilhelm (Germany)
  Instructional Quality and Development of Reading Competence in Elementary School
  
• Kleinbub, Iris; Helmke, Andreas; Heyne, Nora; Schrader, Friedrich-Wilhelm (Germany)
  Teach Me How to Read: Video-based Rating of Teaching and Learning Processes in the First Language Classroom

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Vance, Ellis (USA)

• Mo, Weimin; Shen, Wenju (USA)
  Assessment of Students Who Are Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
  
• Yang, Shih-mei (Taiwan)
  How the Collaboration Between Native English Speaking Teachers and Non-native English Speaking Teachers Impacts Teachers‘ Professional Development and Students‘ Foreign Language Acquisition

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Depessemier, Pieter (Belgium)

• Higgins, Betty; Miller, Melinda (USA)
  Graphic Organizers: Mapping the Mind for Retention
  
• Michalowska, Marzena (Canada)
  You Gotta Get Graphic! Flexing Your Linguistic Muscles with Graphic Novels.
  

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: Kamper, Gertrud (Germany)

• Kristmundsson, Guðmundur (Iceland)
  Literacy, Reading and Writing of Icelandic People on the Working Market
  
• Zasacka, Zofia (Poland)
  Adolescent Readers
  
• González de la Torre, Yolanda (Mexico)
  The Reading Practices in the Occupational Context (La práctica lectora en el contexto laboral)

Preschool Literacy – Early Literacy/ Reading and Spelling
Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Sasse, Ada (Germany)

• Lai, Wen-Feng (Taiwan); Lee, Young-Ja; Lee, Jeehyun (Korea)
  A Comparative Study of Korean and Taiwanese Children’s Narrative Development
  
• Hsuan, Chung-Hui (Taiwan)
  The Development of Reading in Chinese Character and Chinese Word from 7 to 8 Years old
  
• Ho, Fuk Chuen (Hong Kong)
  Effects of Analytic and Whole-word Methods onTeaching Average and Learning Disabled Readers to Read Chinese Characters

Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Chen, Su-Yen (Taiwan)
Rethinking Gender and Time Spent Leisure Reading-- Findings from National Surveys in Taiwan

Adolescent and Adult Literacy

• Doležalová, Jana; Najvar, Petr; Najvarová, Veronika (Czech Republic)
  Reading Skills of Students of Faculties of Education

Adolescent and Adult Literacy

• Ribičić, Grozdana (Croatia)
  Internet as a Mirror of Teen‘s Literacy

Adolescent and Adult Literacy

• Levesque, Jean-Yves; Lavoie, Natalie (Canada)
  Développer des intérêts et des habitudes de lecture chez des garçons de 9 à 13 ans: une expérimentation, des constats English (poster en Français)

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies

• Batto, Iosefina (Romania)
  Critical Thinking in Developing Reading Skills

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies

• Jelenko, Tanja (Slovenia)
  Stimulating of Self-reliant, Critical and Argumentative Writing about Literary Texts in a Secondary School

Literacy and Technology

• Fry, Sara (USA)
  Supporting Middle School Social Studies Students’ reading Comprehension with Electronic Pop-Up Dictionary

Literacy and Technology

• Sudarevic, Ana (Croatia)
  Digital Collection of Students‘ Picture Books

Free papers

• International Development in Europe Committee of the International
  Reading Association (IDEC)
  A Presentation of the Committee and its Work
  
• International Reading Association
  A Table of Exhibits

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Vorsitz: Röhner, Charlotte (Deutschland)

• Röhner, Charlotte; Dirim, Inci; Wiedenmann, Marianne; Oliva, Andres (Deutschland)
  Mehrsprachigkeit und sprachlich-literale Kompetenz – Diagnostik, Selbstbewertung und Sprachförderung von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus Migrationsfamilien.
  
• Wagner, Petra (Deutschland)
  „Mein Name ist nicht komisch, er bedeutet Geschenk!“ – Kita-Kinder entdecken sprachliche Vielfalt im Kontext voruteilsbewusster Bildung und Erziehung.

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour/ Literacy and Libraries/ Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Hofmann, Bernhard (Deutschland)

• Dannecker, Wiebke (Deutschland)
  Vorüberlegungen zur Entwicklung eines schulinternen Lesecurriculums
  
• Schöggl, Werner (Österreich)
  Zur Rolle der multimedialen Schulbibliothek beim Erwerb und der Verbesserung von Lese- und Medienkompetenz
• Rank, Astrid (Deutschland)
  Subjektive Theorien von Erzieherinnen zum Schriftspracherwerb

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy /Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Présidence: Terwagne, Serge (Belgique)

• Gagnon, Renée; Ziarko, Helène (Canada)
  Développement et organisation du contenu informatif dans l’écriture d’un texte de comparaison en 2e année du primaire.
  
• Bourhis, Véronique (France)
  Comment construire un enseignement explicite de la compréhension en s’appuyant sur les contes traditionnel au CP? En français, English facilitation provided
  
• Braun, Alain (Belgique)
  Immersion linguistique et effets sur la langue maternelle.

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: MacBlain, Sean (United Kingdom)

• MacBlain, Sean; James, Sharon L. (United Kingdom)
  Responding to Pupils with Dyslexia whose First Language is not English: The Need for a Conceptual Framework.
  
• Spor, Mary (USA)
  Multicultural Literacy: Building Capacity through Culturally Appropriate Textbooks In Ethiopia, Africa
  
• Hill, Kirsten (USA)
  A Grade 7 Teacher and His Students‘ Negotiation of Literate Identity in Affluent Suburb Experiencing Problems of Residency: Providing Access to Standard and Non-standard Writing Conventions

Preschool Literacy – Early Literacy
Chair: McElvany, Nele (Germany)

• Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina; Meibauer, Jörg (Germany)
  Early Concept Books: the Joint Relationship between Language Acquisition, Visual Literacy and Emergent Literacy
  
• Ziarko, Helene; Mélançon, Julie (Canada)
  What Metalinguistics Do to the Mind?
  
• Ivarsson, Lena (Sweden)
  Understanding and Describing Reading Development among Early Readers

International Studies
Chair: Valtin, Renate (Germany)

• Dionísio, Maria de Lourdes (Portugal)
  Reading Literacy in PISA: To Read the Words or to ‘Read the World’?
  
• Brozo, William (USA)
  Engagement in Reading: Lessons from PISA.
  
• Shiel, Gerry (Ireland)
  PISA and PIRLS: What Do They Tell Us About Teaching Reading?

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: Elfert, Maren (Germany)

• Elfert, Maren; Rabkin, Gabriele (Germany); Brooks, Greg (United Kingdom)
  Family Literacy in Germany and in Europe

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Knell, Susan (USA)

• Knell, Susan (USA); Rogachevá, Elena (Russia); Rogacheva, Yuri (Germany)
  Grasping the Spirit of Language and Culture Through Folktales: A Comparative Study of Russian and American Folktales

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Chair: Lyssand, Eldbjørg T (Norway)

• Persson, Ulla-Britt (Sweden)
  Ideals and Reality in Schools Where Literacy Thrives – Some Teacher Students’ Views
  
• Ushakova, Svetlana (Russia)
  How to Develop a Successful Reader and Writer in a Linguistic School
  
• Bernat, Simona-Elena (Romania)
  Feedback as Tool of Improving Learning Habits of High School Students

Literacy and Technology
Chair: Kristmundsson, Guðmundur (Iceland)

• Elbassiouny, Samia (United Arab Emirates)
  The Preparation of Arabic Language Student Teacher to Use Computer in the Classroom in Egypt
  
• Wierny, Sebastian (Poland)
  From Web Pages to E-books. Reading on the Net in Poland
  
• Kiili, Carita (Finland)
  Internet as a Source for an Essay: How Students Evaluate Credibility and Relevance of Information?

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Vance, Ellis (USA)

• Cutts, Alida; Vance, Ellis (USA)
  Intercultural Relations in Children‘s Books
  
• Mathis, Janelle (USA)
  Addressing Democracy through Children’s and Adolescent Literature: Communities Where Social Justice Thrives

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Gern, Ursula (Germany)

• Dachkova, Lydia; Staneva, Daniela; Koceva, Mimi
  (Bulgaria)
  Assessment and Tutoring Strategies for Effective Intervention of Literacy Development
  
• Johnson, Dale; von Hoff, Bonnie; Schlichting, Kathleen (USA)
  How High-stakes Testing Policies Discriminate Against Minorities and Children of Poverty

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention/ Schools where Literacy Thrives
Chair: Kalnina, Sandra (Latvia)

• Valerie, Lynda (USA)
  Tapping into the 89% – Building Home/School Literacy Partnerships
  
• Millet, Carol; MacMullin, M. Keth (USA)
  Fostering Collegiality: Unlocking the Power of Literacy Teams

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour /Oral Language and Literacy
Chair: Mirseitova, Sapargul (Kazakhstan)

• Janning, Patricia (Germany)
  Getting our ESL kids to read!
  
• Comer, Melissa (USA)
  A Novel Idea: Using Inquiry Learning & Students’ Linguistic and Cultural Patterns in the Reading Classroom

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Vorsitz: Röhner, Charlotte

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Vorsitz: Feldmeier, Alexis (Deutschland)

• Piasecki, Peter (Deutschland)
  Förderung der Lese-Kompetenz von jungen Menschen in Ausbildung in Berufen für Menschen mit Behinderungen nach dem Berufsbildungsgesetz
  
• Feldmeier, Alexis (Deutschland)
  Unterrichtsmodelle für die Erwachsenenalphabetisierung in der Zweitsprache Deutsch

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Présidence: Thévenaz-Christen, Thérèse (Suisse)

• Nilsson, Anna (Suède)
  Le traitement des similitudes interlexicales des lecteurs en français, langue étrangère; How to handle the interlingual similarities when reading in French as a foreign language?
  
• Moreau, André C; Leclerc, Martine (Canada)
  Savoirs scientifiques de l’apprentissage de la lecture faisant écho aux pratiques innovantes de communautés d’apprentissage professionnelles franco-canadiennes. (Scientific Knowledge Regarding Student Performance in Reading Following the Development of Innovative Practices of French Canadian Professional Learning Communities.)

Preschool Literacy – Early Literacy
Chair: Haase, Janeen (USA)

• Leal, Fernando (Mexico)
  A Test of Preschool Reading Skills: Design Procedure and Preliminary Results
  
• Suro, Judith (Mexico)
  Overcoming Reading Difficulties at Preschool Level: Positive Results of a Six-Month Intervention

Adolescent and Adult Literacy/ Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Risko, Victoria (USA) &
Présidence: Foucambert, Denis (France)

• Alvarez, Marino; Risko, Victoria (USA)
  AAAARTE of Teaching Vocabulary
  
• Lavoie, Natalie; Levesque, Jean-Yves (Canada) Les élèves de 6-7 ans et l’écriture en dyade: comment y parviennent-ils?

Free papers
Chair: Fitzpatrick, Celine (Ireland)

• Anderson, Jim; Lenters, Kim; McTavish, Marianne (Canada)
  How Family Literacy is Portrayed on the WWW: A Critical Analysis
  
• Murphy, Brian (Ireland)
  Curriculum Contestation in Ireland – the Case of Reading Development at Primary Level

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Kalnina, Sandra (Latvia)

• Lebrun, Monique (Canada)
  The evolution of Library Use and the Development of Literacy in Adolescence
  
• Todorov, Nada; Vucković, Zeljko (Serbia)
  Relationship Between Pupils’ Achievement and Using Library Collections

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Smith, Gloria (USA)

• Smith, Gloria; Wahlgren, Christine; Smith, Charles (USA)
  Know “PAINE”. Know Gain: Common Sense Reading Strategies to Check Comprehension in the Four Text Types: Persuasive/Argumentative, Informational Narrative and Everyday
  
• Gupta, Abha (USA)
  Teacher Training in Content Area Reading Strategies with Emphasis on Science Education

Literacy and Technology
Chair: Kristmundsson, Guðmundur (Iceland)

• Reeder, Kenneth; Shapiro, Jon (Canada)
  The Effectiveness of Speech Recognition Technology in Promoting Reading Proficiency and Attitudes for Canadian Immigrant Children.

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Berg, Charles (Luxemburg)

• Berg, Charles; Weis, Christiane (Luxemburg)
  Changing Language Education for Social Inclusion
  
• Dombey, Henrietta (United Kingdom)
  Phonics and Politics: Literacy Teaching in a Changing Political Climate

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: D’Angelo Menéndez, Estela (Spain)

• D’Angelo Menéndez, Estela; Sobrino Callejo, Rosa (Spain)
  Reader Cities and Towns Network – Spain
  
• Benítez Sastre, Laura; Pozo Luna, Piedad (Spain)
  Itinerant and Interactive Show Photographic Poems “A poem, an image and your look”

Oral Language and Literacy/Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Hébert, Manon (Canada)

• Hébert, Manon (Canada)
  The Quality of Talk in Peer-led Literature Discussions: Which Criteria and Degree of Correlation Between Teachers, Students and Researcher’s Evaluation
  
• Brenas, Yolande (France)
  When the Language Becomes a “Launching Point” of Literary Activity

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy/ Writing and Spelling Development
Chair: Gavranović, Drahomira (Croatia)

• Stellakis, Nektarios; Marinatou, Dora (Greece)
  Spontaneous Writing Attempts of Pre-school Aged Children
  
• Uusen, Anne (Estonia)
  Writing Skills of 1st and 2nd Stage Students in Estonia

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Panagiotopoulou, Argyro (Deutschland)& Isler, Dieter (Schweiz)

Frühe Literalität und Bildungschancen im internationalen Vergleich – Literale Praktiken und Kompetenzen von 4- bis 8-jährigen Kindern unterschiedlicher Herkunft im Kontext von Familie, Vorschule und Grundschule. (Early literacy and school success from an international perspective – Literacy practice and proficiency of 4 to 8 years old children from diverse backgrounds within their contexts of home, preschool and elementary school.)
(Deutsch, English facilitation provided)

Teil 1: Frühe Literalität im familiären Kontext

• Kuyumcu, Reyhan (Deutschland)
  Förderung von Literalität und Spracherwerb
  
• Isler, Dieter; Künzli, Sybylle (Schweiz)
  Lernwelten – Literacies: Bedingungen und Prozesse des frühen Schriftspracherwerbs im Kontext von Familie und Kindergarten.
  
• Anderson, Jim (Kanada)
  Parents as Literacy Supporters

Teil 2: (Frühe) Literalität im institutionellen Kontext

• Huneke, Hans-Werner (Deutschland)
  Was Erzieher/innen in deutschen Kindertagesstädten über frühen Schriftspracherwerb wissen
  
• Sunnen, Patrick (Luxemburg); Christmann, Nadine (Deutschland)
  Literalitätserfahrungen von Vorschulkindern in Luxemburg
  
• Panagiotopoulou, Argyro; Graf, Kerstin (Deutschland)
  Umgang mit Heterogenität und Förderung von Literalität im Elementar- und Primarbereich im europäischen Vergleich (HeLiE)

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Vorsitz: Gern, Ursula (Deutschland)

• Dohrn, Antje (Deutschland)
  Leseförderung mit literarischen Texten im DaZ-Unterricht der Sek I – Bausteine für einen integrativen Deutschunterricht
  

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Vorsitz: Leßmann, Beate (Deutschland)

• Leßmann, Beate (Deutschland)
  „Jedes Kind wertschätzen! Wie individuelle Lernwege im Schreiben und Rechtschreiben Kinder stark machen. Ein Film über Unterricht in Grundschulen“

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Organisatrice: Lafontaine, Lizanne (Canada)
Discutante: Hébert, Manon (Canada)

Les facteurs de réussite dans le développement des compétences en littératie à l’école franco-canadienne. (Success Factors in the Development of Literacy Skills in French-Canadian Schools.)

• Moreau, André (Canada)
  Émergence des compétences en littératie et résultats liés aux stratégies pédagogiques
  
• Plessis-Bélair, Ginette (Canada)
  La langue parlée comme élément de motivation dans le
  développement de la littératie
  
• Lafontaine, Lizanne; Blain, Sylvie (Canada)
  L’oral et l’écrit dans les groupes de révision rédactionnelle au primaire
  

Preschool Literacy-Early Literacy
Chair: Haikarainen, Leena (Finland)

• Tafa, Eufimia (Greece)
  Reading and Writing in the Preschool Curricula of the European Union
  
• Griffith, Priscilla (USA)
  Scaffolding Reading and Writing in Early Literacy Classrooms

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair/ Présidence: Serge Tervagne (Belgium/Belgique)

• Padeliadu, Susana; Antoniou, Faye; Patsiodimou, Antonia (Greece)
  The Relationship Between Phonemic Awareness, Decoding and Spelling Performance of Greek Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities
  
• Imre, Angéla (Hungary)
  Speech Processing Operations in Children with Reading Difficulties
  
• Debeurme, Godelieve; Lessard-Lacroix, Isabelle (Canada)
  Élèves en panne d’apprentissage au secondaire: présentation d’une démarche de diagnostic et d’intervention dans un cadre de service d’aide
  (Slides in English)

International Studies
Chair: Bos, Wilfried (Germany)

Reading Literacy and Spelling Competences of Fourth Grade Students in International Perspective. Methodological Issues and Findings of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

• Bos, Wilfried; Hornberg, Sabine (Germany)
  Design, Aims and Results of PIRLS 2001
  
• Buddeberg, I., Voss, Andreas (Germany)
  Methodological Issues Concerning the Measurement of Reading and Spelling Competences
  
• Lankes, Eva-Maria (Germany)
  Reading Literacy in Primary School – a Model of Competence Levels
  
• Voss, Andreas
  Spelling Competences of Fourth Grade Students

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Miller, Melinda (USA)

• Miller, Melinda; Marsh, Jamie; Higgins, Betty; Ellis, Linda (USA)
  Using Assessment to Guide Instruction  

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Brownlie, Faye (Canada)

• Brownlie, Faye; Feniak, Catherine (Canada); Ridgeway, Victoria (USA)
  Assessment FOR Learning - Affective and Interactive Strategies

Oral Language and Literacy/Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: McLaughlin, Maureen (USA)

• Ernestová, Marie (Czech Republic)
  Teaching Vocabulary to EFL Students: Historical Perspectives and some Recent Practical Approaches to ‚Learning in Context‘.
  
• Kane Schneider, Barbara (USA)
  Reading to Learn: Comprehension Strategies and Information Texts
  
• McLaughlin, Maureen (USA)
  Guided Comprehension: Helping Students Understand What They Read

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Griffith, Paula (USA)

• Griffith, Paula; Claes, Jane; Hilbun, Janet; White, Maureen; Alexander, Linda (USA)
  Teacher and Librarian Collaboration: How to Become an Instructional ´Dynamic Duo` Using Multicultural Literature Circles

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Pandis, Meeli (Estonia)

• Pandis, Meeli (Estonia); Dachkova, Lydia (Bulgaria); Smith, Pat (Australia); Varshaver, Olga (Russia)
  International Perspectives on Critical Thinking and Democracy an IPSIG Presentation

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Persson, Ulla-Britt (Sweden)

• Collins, Julie; Beach, Sara Ann (USA)
  How do we assess student literacy development?
  
• Nilsson, Nina (USA)
  Reading Assessment Across Time: Four Informal Reading Inventories Today vs. 20 Years Ago
• Sadeghi, Karim (Iran)
  The Validity of Reading Tests in the Eyes of Test-Takers

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Zasacka, Zofia (Poland)

• Jamnik, Tilka (Slovenia)
  Teatime With Children Books for Grandparents
  
• Wozniczka-Paruzel, Bronislawa (Poland)
  The Seniors in the World of Information: Information Literacy for Elderly People in the Libraries (Reflections Based on the Polish Experience)

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Panagiotopoulou, Argyro (Deutschland)& Isler, Dieter (Schweiz)

Frühe Literalität und Bildungschancen im internationalen Vergleich (wie oben).
Deutsch, English facilitation provided

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development/Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy/Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Huth, Erika (Deutschland)

• Schmidinger, Elfriede (Österreich)
  Das Leseportfolio zur Unterstützung selbst bestimmten Lernens im offenen Unterricht
  
• Vaarala, Heidi (Finnland)
  “Wir lesen in einer Gruppe!”
  
• Hoefflin, George (Switzerland)
  What 6-year-old Children Learn from Teachers about Literacy

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Organisatrice: Lafontaine, Lizanne (Canada)
Discutante: Hébert, Manon (Canada)

Les facteurs de réussite dans le développement des compétences en littératie à l’école franco-canadienne. (Success Factors in the Development of Literacy Skills in French-Canadian Schools.)

• Carignan, Isabelle (Canada)
  Le niveau de littératie d’élèves du secondaire sur le plan de la compréhension et des stratégies de lecture
  
• Leclerc, Martine (Canada)
  L’expérience d’une communauté d’apprentissage professionnelle visant la réussite en littératie
  
• Hébert, Manon (Canada)
  Questions, discussion et conclusion

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Petkoska, Anica (Macedonia)

• Matthews, Marian; Valerie, Lynda (USA)
  Writing and Thinking about our Communities: Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Place
  
• Finke, Janet; Adkisson, Pat (USA)
  The Power of Conferring in Writing Workshop

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development/Oral Language and Literacy
Chair: Kamper, Gertrud (Germany)

• Cruz Reyes, Maria del Cristo (Spain)
  “Telling a Picture, Drawing a Story”: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking through Images.
  
• Souder, Alysia (USA)
  Using Drama Techniques to Enhance Literacy  

International Studies
Chair: Bos, Wilfried (Germany)

• Angelova, Tatyana (Bulgaria)
  Assessment by Constructed-Response Items in Bulgarian – Experience from Data of the Bulgarian National Study and International Study (PIRLS’2006)
  
• LaFontaine, Dominique; Monseur, Christian (Belgium)
  Interaction between Gender, Question Format and Reading Process in Large Scale Reading Literacy Assessments

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Donovan, Joanie (Canada)

• Donovan, Joanie; Jensen, Yrsa; Puharich, Kathy (Canada)
  Developing Readers: From Assessment to Instruction

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Wilkinson, Louise (USA)

• Wilkinson, Louise; Silliman, Elaine R; Bahrund, Ruth H; Berninger, Virginia (USA)
  New Directions In Spelling Research          

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Goodmann, Kenneth

• Goodmann, Kenneth; Strauss, Steven; Altwerger, Bess (USA)
  New Developments in Neuroscience and their Implications for the Theory and Classroom Practice of Reading

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Novljan, Silva (Slovenia)

• Polyzou, Stamoulia; Louari, Marina (Greece)
  Educational Program and Practical Implements for Pupils in the Library
  
• Sabolović-Krajina, Dijana; Vajzović, Jasminka (Croatia)
  Literacy of print disabled persons – a challenge for society

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Hill, Margaret (USA)

• Hill, Margaret; Hill, Susan; Hutchison, Laveria; Votteler, Nancy (USA); Smetannikova, Natalia (Russia); Booker, Clarissa (USA)
  Literacy and Democracy: Building Critical Literacy Models across Three Countries from Prekinder to Adult

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Tafa, Eufimia (Greece)

• Unsworth, Len (Australia)
  The Role of Images in Group Reading Comprehension Tests for Primary Schools.
  
• Triga, Anastassia (Greece); Kakopsitou, Polina (Cyprus)
  A Research Based Assessment For Measuring Greek And Greek-Cypriot Students’ Phonological Awareness Skills
  
• Temur, Turan; Akyol, Hayati (Turkey)
  Comparing Reading Skills of 1st Grade Students Who Learn Reading-Writing with Sound-Based Clause Method and Clause Method

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Vardell, Sylvia M (USA)

• Vardell, Sylvia M (USA)
  Building Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy through Literature

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Shiel, Gerry (Ireland)

• Jonson, Kathleen; Rosebrock, Kathy (USA)
  Teaching Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension
  
• Jankulovska, Snezana (Macedonia); Haase, Janeen (USA)
  Peer Mentoring: A Teacher Professional Development Tool to Develop Critical Reflection

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy

• Kuo, Jun-min (Taiwan)
  Learning English through Music: A Cultural Dialogue between an EFL Teacher and Songs in English

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy

• White, Maureen; Alexander, Linda H (USA)
  Outstanding Translated Children‘s Books in the US: Trends of Translations into English, 2000-2006

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy

• Yau, Jia-ling Charlene (Taiwan)
  The Roles of Mental Translation in First and Second Language Reading

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy

• Atwill, Kim, Blanchard, Jay; Millett, Joe; Christie, James (USA)
  Cross-language Transfer of Phonemic Awareness with Young Spanish-speaking Children in English Language Classrooms

Writing and Spelling Development

• Pimenta, Jorge (Portugal)
  Note-taking and Knowledge Construction: How Text Types Influence Reading Notes?

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development

• Groß Ophoff, Jana; Hosenfeld, Ingmar; Isaac, Kevin (Deutschland)
  Erfassung von Leseverständnis im Projekt VERA

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development

• Thonke, Franziska; Groß Ophoff, Jana; Hosenfeld, Ingmar; Isaac, Kevin (Germany)
  Kriteriengestütze Erfassung von Schreibleistungen im Projekt VERA

Free papers

• International Development in Europe Committee of the International
  Reading Association (IDEC)
  A Presentation of the Committee and its Work
  
• International Reading Association
  A Table of Exhibits

Oral Language and Literacy/ Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Vorsitz: Huth, Erika (Deutschland)

• Andresen, Helga (Deutschland)
  Zur Bedeutung mündlichen Sprachhandelns für den Schriftspracherwerb: Rollenspiel und Erzählen
  
• Thaler, Verena (Deutschland)
  Augenbewegungen von leseschwachen Kindern während des Lesens von Wörtern und Pseudowörtern – erste Ergebnisse des Projekts Guckomobil II

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Vorsitz: Riegler, Anna (Österreich)

• Riegler, Anna (Österreich)
  Entwicklung und Förderung von Lesekompetenz und Lesemotivation
  für Jugendliche

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Présidence: Debeurme, Godelieve (Canada)

• Leclerc, Martine; Leclerc-Morin, Mélanie (Canada)
  Regards croisés sur les facteurs influençant le rendement de l’élève en lecture : une étude multicas en milieu francophone minoritaire. (Examining factors that influence student performance in reading: a multi-case study in a francophone minority context.)
  
• Ouellet, Chantal; Médeiros, Isabelle (Canada)
  Enseignement des stratégies de compréhension au secondaire: recherche exploratoire auprès d’élèves en difficulté de lecture et de leurs enseignants.

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Lyssand, Eldbjørg T (Norway)

• Kulbrandstad, Lise Iversen; Danbolt, Anne Marit (Norway)
  Teacher Reflections on Literacy Learning in Multicultural Schools
  
• Brueggemann, Marti; Knickerbocker, Joan (USA)
  Post Modern Literature for Children and Young Adults: Reflections of Contemporary Life and Learning

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Mirseitova, Sapargul (Kazakhstan)

• Mirseitova, Sapargul; Rysbaeva, Arshagul (Kazakhstan)
  Change of Attitude Towards Reading

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Richards, Janet (USA)

Exploring Current Literacy Research and Practice: Transcending Boundaries/Forging Connections. Offered by The Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading (OTER) and the Professors of Reading Teacher Educators (PRTE) – Special Interest Groups of the International Reading Association, USA

• Keynote: Kenney, Larry
  Ways Colleges of Education Can Facilitate International Opportunities for Teacher Education Students

Concurrent Roundtable One:

• Quinn, Kathleen; Gee, Roger (USA)
  Establishing Reliability for Oral Graduated Dictation Using an Informal Reading Inventory to Evaluate English Language Learners‘ Language Proficiency and Reading Ability
  
• Parker, Karen; Parker, Leonard (USA)
  Using an Electronic Study Skills Inventory and Learning Styles Profile to Prescribe a Learning Segment
  
• Hedrick, Wanda; Hall, Katrina Willard; Saunders, Sharon; Nelson, Rebecca (USA)
  Head and Heart United: University and Schools Working Together Prepare Preservice Teachers

Concurrent Roundtable Two:

• Quinn, Kathleen; Runyen, Maureen (USA)
  Motivating Adolescents through Literature: Read-A-Latte Book Club
  
• Bukowiecki, Elaine (USA)
  Preparing Prospective Reading Specialists to become a Literacy Coach in a School/School District
  
• Richards, Janet; Bennett, Susan (USA)
  A Community of Practice Summer Literacy Camp for Students At-Risk: Connecting Graduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Parents, and Children

Concurrent Roundtable Three:

• Wiesendanger, Katherine; Perry, Jeanine (USA)
  The Importance of Word Selection on Students‘ Abilities to Recognize Word
  
• Hall, Cindy; Pearman, Cathy; Hall, John; Lefever-Davis, Shirley
  (USA)
  Literacy Centers; Creating Golden Opportunities for Growth in Students‘ Reading and Writing
  
• Applegate, Mary; Applegate, Anthony (USA)
  Using Questions to Guide Thoughtful Literacy through Differentiated Instruction
  
• DeBoy, Joanne (USA)
  The Role of the Education Department in Systematizing Reading Comprehension across the Curriculum
• Kozdras, Deborah; Shea, Kim (USA)
  Teachers and Elementary Students Collaborate to Create Multimedia/Multigenre Literacy Projects
  
• Campbell, Terry; Parr, Michelann (USA)
  Multiple Modes of Writing as Ways of Becoming Transformative Teachers of Language and Literacy

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Trathen, Woodrow (USA)

• Trathen, Woodrow; Schlagal, Bob; Frye, Beth; Kucan, Linda; Hendrix, Mary; Snow, Amie (USA)
  An Empirical Study of Reading Fluency: Automaticity, Accuracy, Prosody and their Relationships

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Sabolović-Krajina, Dijana (Croatia)

• Bon, Ingrid; von Horn, Cornelia (the Netherlands)
  Literacy Policy and Library Practices: Examples from the Netherlands
  
• Balca, Angela (Portugal)
  The Role of the School Library in Forming the Children’s Reading Ability

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Andries, Caroline (Belgium)

• Depessemier, Pieter (Belgium)
  Supporting Dyslectic Students between 17 and 21 Years Old: The Development and Standardisation of a Diagnostic Test
  
• Tijms, Jurgen; Aravena, Sebastian (the Netherlands)
  Treatment for Reading and Spelling Problems of Individuals with Dyslexia

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Alon, Shlomo (Israel)

• Kurzon, Rachel (Israel)
  Reading Pictures and Second Language Acquisition. The Case of Ethiopian Children Learning Hebrew
  
• Alon, Shlomo (Israel)
  The Arabic Hebrew Dictionary: Between Modernity & Heritage

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Grosman, Meta (Slovenia)

• Ovchinnikova, Elena (Russia)
  Teaching Reading in EFL for Professional Development
  
• Grosman, Meta (Slovenia)
  Reading Competence in L1 and L2 – The Case of Slovenia

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Pandis, Meeli (Estonia)

• Möldre, Aile (Estonia)
  Reading Matter for a Minority: Publishing of Russian Language Books in Estonia
  
• Lyon, Anna (USA)
  Poverty and Schooling

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: Fitzpatrick, Celine (Ireland)

• Cahillane-McGovern, Siobhan (Ireland)
  Literacy Histories and Lives of Teachers and Student Teachers
  
• Costa, Paulo (Portugal)
  The literary canon for the Portuguese Secondary Education: Reflections on the Official Pedagogic Discourse

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Kasapoglu, Aliye Evin (Turkey)

• Wang, Ching-huang (Taiwan)
  Educational Bibliotherapy Study: Taiwanese College Students’ Perception of Two Books
  
• Yurur, Ebru Tuba; Kasapoglu, Aliye Evin (Turkey)
  Student‘s Perceptions on the Extensive Reading Project at Anadolu University, School of Foreign Languages

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Vorsitz: Hellmich, Frank (Deutschland)

• Schabmann, Alfred (Österreich)
  Prädiktion und längerfristige Stabilität von Lese-Rechtschreibleistungen

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour/Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Vorsitz: Huth, Erika (Deutschland)

• Kleedorfer, Jutta (Austria)
  Cool Mania for Reading Strategic literacy initiatives to strengthen adolescent readers
  
• Rackwitz, Rüdiger-Philipp (Deutschland)
  Förderung von Kindern mit Schwierigkeiten im Schriftspracherwerb. Befunde und Analysen aus einem Forschungsprojekt.

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Scheerer-Neumann, Gerheid (Germany)

• McLernon, Helen; Gardner, John; Ferguson, Jim (United Kingdom)
  Literacy and the Child with Moderate Learning Difficulties: Dealing with the Bramble Bushes
  
• Countryman, Gwen (USA)
  Using Fluency Assessment and Instruction to Support Diverse Learners

Free papers
Chair: Ladoja, Bukola Ayinke (Nigeria)

• Ladoja, Bukola Ayinke; Kolawole, Clement Olusegun Olaniran; Kuyinu, Kofoworola (Nigeria)
  Developing and Sustaining Student’s Interest in Reading – A Feedback from Reading Awareness Society for Development in Africa (RASDA)’s Activities.
  

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Richards, Janet (USA)

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Trathen, Woodrow (USA)

Literacy and Libraries
Chair: Sabolović-Krajina, Dijana (Croatia)

• Novljan, Silva; Balant, Mojca (Slovenia)
  Librarians Help to Decrease the Poor Literacy of a Minority Group

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention/Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Naegele, Ingrid (Germany)

• van Steensel, Roel (the Netherlands); McElvany, Nele (Germany);
  Kurvers, Jeanne (the Netherlands)
  The Effects of Home-based Literacy Interventions on Children‘s Code-related and Comprehension Skills: a Meta-analysis
  
• Loheman, Susanne; Holmgren, Agneta (Sweden)
  Living Books – Library and Computer in Cooperation

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Alon, Shlomo (Israel)

• Bond, Ernest; Larison, Isaac; Stan, Susan; Dean, Patricia (USA)
  The Americanisation of Children‘s Literature/Literacies

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Angelova, Tatyana (Bulgaria)

• Kalnina, Sandra; Kalve, Aija (Latvia)
  Challenges of Promoting Reading Motivation of 1st year University students
  
• Nir, Raphael (Israel)
  Polysemy and Reading Difficulties

Literacy and Technology
Chair: Cutts, Alida (USA)

• Leavell, Judy A. (USA)
  Supporting Secondary Hispanic ESL (English as a Second Language) Students Through an On-line Technology Intervention

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: Brooks, Greg (United Kingdom)

• Ilersic, Ana (Slovenia)
  Rural Literacy Programme in Slovenia
  
• Knaflic, Livija (Slovenia)
  What Parents Learn in Family Literacy Programmes?

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Jankulovska, Snezana (Macedonia)

• Wang, Ying; Rose, Bruce J. (USA)
  “Mam, I am fixing to read.”

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Vorsitz: Valtin, Renate (Deutschland)

• Hellmich, Frank (Deutschland)
  Individuelle und schulische Bedingungen im Leseunterricht der Grundschule

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Vorsitz: Sasse, Ada (Germany)

• Isaac, Kevin; Groß Ophoff, Jana; Hosenfeld, Ingmar (Deutschland)
  Vertiefende Analysen zum Kompetenzbereich „Sprache und Sprachgebrauch untersuchen“

Oral Language and Literacy
Présidence: Hébert, Manon

• Dupont, Pascal; Grandaty, Michel (France)
  Médiations de l‘enseignant et structure de l‘interaction verbale dans un débat littéraire
  
• Plessis-Bélair, Ginette (Canada)
  Des adolescents en difficulté d‘apprentissage et l‘utilisation de l‘oral comme médiateur dans le développement de la littératie.

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Naegele, Ingrid (Germany)

• Scheerer-Neumann, Gerheid (Germany)
  The Definition of Reading Disability and Dyslexia: A Neverending Story?
  
• Nielsen, Cecilia (Sweden)
  The Most Important Thing –According to the Students

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour /Assessment
of Language and Literacy Development
Vorsitz: Hofmann, Bernhard (Deutschland)

• Kuhley, Horst Paul (Deutschland)
  Wie Abschluss-Standards mit Hilfe von Lesecurricula in Sekundarstufenschulen umgesetzt werden können – Materialien und Konzepte für ein berufsorientierendes Leseund Schreibcurriculum.
  
• Gessner, Elisabeth (Deutschland)
  Zur Diagnose und Förderung von Lesekompetenz in der Sekundarstufe

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Brandao Carvalho, José

• Chartrand, Suzanne-G. (Canada)
  The Epistemic Function of Writing Language: Survey Results from Quebec Secondary School History and Science Classes
  
• Brandao Carvalho, José; Silva, António; Pimenta, Jorge (Portugal)
  Note-taking – The First Step of Academic Success

Oral Language and Literacy
Chair: Sasse, Ada (Germany)

• Willenberg, Ingrid (South Africa)
  The Development of Word Definition Skill from Kindergarten to Grade 3 in a Group of South African Children

Gender Issues in Literacy
Chair: Garbe, Christine (Germany)

• Garbe, Christine (Germany)
  Gender Differences in Reading Behaviour and Reading Literacy: Facts, Theories, and Concepts. (Geschlechterdifferenzen in der Lesesozialisation und Lesekompetenz / Geschlechterdifferenzierte Leseförderung)
  
• Philipp, Maik (Germany)
  Lesen, wenn anderes und andere wichtiger werden. Gender-Differenzen im Einfluss der Peer Group auf die Lesesozialisation. / Geschlechterdifferenzierte Leseförderung; (Gender Differences in Peers‘ Influence on Reading Socialisation)

In English (Deutsch)

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: Kiili, Carita (Finland)

• Blaser, Christiane (Canada)
  Learning through Reading and Writing in Quebec Secondary School Science and History classes
  
• Lefrançois, Pascale (Canada)
  Are Reference Books the Key to Solving Syntactic and Lexical Problems at University Level?

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Retelsdorf, Jan (Germany)

• Retelsdorf, Jan (Germany)
  The Impact of Watching TV on Reading Literacy
  
• Chudiniva, Vera (Russia)
  Children Reading in Changing Media Environment: Tendencies and Challenges

Preschool Literacy-Early Literacy/Literacy and Technology
Chair: Sudarević, Ana (Croatia)

• Froment, Mireille (France)
  Genre of discourse and style: learning how to read with an album – Comparison between two sessions
  (primary level: CP)
  
• Štefančić, Silko (Croatia)
  Children‘s (Multimedia and Technology-based) Literacy In the Library Environment
  English (Croatian)

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies/ Adolescent and
Adult Literacy
Chair: Bernat, Simona-Elena (Romania)

• Seghedin, Elena (Romania)
  Developing Student Teachers Reflective Capacity using Critical Thinking
  
• Grisham, Dana (USA)
  Lighting the Path to University Success: Reading Institutes for Academic Preparation (RIAP)

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Manning, Mariann (USA)

• Sams, Coleen (USA)
  Pragmatic Strategies for Democratized Literacy
  
• Green, Airlie (USA)
  The Need for Critical Literacy in Pluralistic Democratic Societies

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Vorsitz: Huth, Erika (Deutschland)

• Abraham, Ulf (Germany)
  Writing to Read, and Reading to Write. AnIntegrated Strategy of Teaching Literacy on Secondary School Level
  
• Altenburg, Erika (Deutschland)
  Sprachliches Lernen zur Entwicklung und Förderung von Lesekompetenz
  
• Hasse, Friedrich; Sösemann, Britta (Deutschland)
  Verbesserung der Lesekompetenz bei älteren Jugendlichen Erfahrungen mit dem Pro Read Schulprojekt der Erhard- Höpfner-Stiftung.

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Vorsitz: Gaile, Dorothee (Deutschland)

• Gaile, Dorothee (Deutschland)
  Neue Lernchancen für Jugendliche in allen Fächern durch „Reading Apprenticeship“

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Vorsitz: Kleedorfer, Jutta (Austria)

• Schmitt-Rößer, Angelika (Deutschland)
  Neue Lesepraxis für Jungen – Starke Bücher für starke Jungs

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Présidence: Peters, Monique (Canada)

• Foucambert, Denis (Canada)
  Quand la syntaxe guide la compréhension en lecture: premières approches issues du modèle structural de lecture.
  
• Lesenne, Sabine (France)
  Compétences, motivation et comportement d‘un type particulier de lecteurs. (Competences, motivation and behaviour of particular type of readers.)
  (PowerPoint in English)
  
• Rebiffé, Catherine; Le Bourgeois, Roselyne (France)
  Comprendre des textes d‘histoire à l‘école élémentaire. Quelles compétences de lecteur pour les élèves?

Assessment of Language and Literacy Development
Chair: Ushakova, Svetlana (Russia)

• Schnitzler, Carola; Scheerer-Neumann, Gerheid (Germany)
  Reading Assessment on Text Level – Evaluation of a Graduated Assessment Tool for Grades 3 to 6
  
• Behrmann, Edward (USA)
  Re-thinking Reading Comprehension Tests: What Are We Measuring?
  

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Benítez Sastre, Laura (Spain)

• Peredo Merlo, Maria Alicia; Carrasco Altamirano, Alma Ceclia; Lopez Bonilla, Guadalupe (Mexico)
  Estudiantes Y Lectura En México; Students and reading in Mexico
  Spanish (English)

Free papers
Chair: Selin, Ann-Sofie (Finland)

• Depessemier, Pieter (Belgium); Gern, Ursula (Germany);
  Dachkova, Lydia (Bulgaria); Brooks, Greg (United Kingdom);
  Pandis, Meeli (Estonia); Persson, Ulla-Britt (Sweden);
  Berg, Charles (Luxemburg); Tafa, Eufimia (Greece); Bernat,
  Simona-Elena (Romania); Shiel, Gerry (Ireland)
  IDEC, a platform for organisational and professional collaboration.
  The symposium will describe the collaboration of some 25+ national affiliates to the International Reading Association.

Free papers
Chair: Ellis, Linda (USA)

• Ellis, Linda; Miller, Melinda; Higgins, Betty; Robbins, Mary; Price, Debra; Breen, Leonard; McCauly, Joyce; Votteler, Nancy (USA)
  Voices From Our Graduates: Are We Doing a Good Job of Preparing Literacy Leaders?

Gender Issues in Literacy
Chair: Garbe, Christine (Germany)

• Böck, Margit (Austria)
  Gender and Literacy: Modes and Media. A New Approach for Developing Boys’ and Girls’ Motivation to Read and Write
• Lashaway-Bokina, Nancy (USA)
  Controversial Pathways: Current Research on Gender Specific Literature Classes
  
• Christy, Carol (USA)
  Does the Gender of Testers Influence Oral Reading Assessment?

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Cutts, Alida (USA)

• Reading, Gloria (USA)
  Children‘s Literature of the Middle East: The Human Connection

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Alon, Shlomo (Israel)

• Bauer, Eurydice (USA)
  Enhancing Students’ Reading Comprehension: Multiple Paths to Deeper Understanding of Text
  
• Maisonneuve, Luc; Calvez, Loic (France)
  To Understand a Text and to Assess this Understanding

Literacy and Technology
Chair: Hofmann, Bernhard (Germany)

• Carignan, Isabelle; Montésinos-Gelet, Isabelle; Lefrançois, Pascale (Canada)
  Reading Strategies used by Grade 9 Students on 3 Types of Document and their Efficiency
  
• Colfer, Caroline; MacBlain, Sean; James, Sharon L (United Kingdom)
  Analysing Language into Literature along Three Dimensions, Descriptive, Reflective and Speculative: Preparing Teachers for the Future.

Preschool Literacy and Early Literacy
Chair: Haase, Janeen (USA)

• Gleeson, Martin (Ireland)
  Supporting the Emergent Reader through Research-Based Integrated Early Literacy Instruction
  
• Ivanović, Martina Dragija; Gavranović, Drahomira; Krtalić, Maja (Croatia)
  Promotion of Reading Activities for Children in Eastern Croatia Rural Areas

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies /Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour
Chair: Ernestová, Marie (Czech Republic)

• Ipek, Hülya (Turkey)
  Using Listening as a Pre-reading Activity in the Reading Classes
  
• Puksand, Helin (Estonia)
  Developing Reading Skills
  
• Najvarová, Veronika; Najvar, Petr (Czech Republic)
  Reading Strategies and the Development of Reading Skills of Primary School Pupils in the Czech Republic

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour

• Adam-Schwebe, Stefanie (Germany)
  Measuring Reading Comprehension: Validation of a Newly Developed Test

Reading Competence, Motivation and Behaviour

• Trenk-Hinterberger, Isabel; Nix, Daniel; Rieckmann, Carola (Germany)
  Promoting Reading Fluency of Poor Readers in the Sixth Grade: An Intervention Study

Free papers

• Cakiroglu, Orhan (USA)
  An Effective Approach to Reading Instruction: Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies

Preschool Literacy-Early Literacy

• Klop, Daleen (South Africa)
  Comparison of the Narratives of Lower Socio-economic Preschool Children Following two Different Shared Reading Intervention Approaches

Literacy and Libraries

• Sorgic, Ljiljana; Joksimovic, ZeljkaTurk (Croatia)
  Reading Groups in the Public Library and Reading Rooms in Sisak

Literacy and Libraries

• Semenić-Premec, Davorka (Croatia)
  The Best Children’s Fairy Tale

Schools Where Literacy Thrives

• Tošić-Grlač, Sonja (Croatia)
  Classroom Library

Free papers

• International Development in Europe Committee of the International
  Reading Association (IDEC)
  A presentation of the Committee and its Work
  
• International Reading Association
  A Table of Exhibits
  

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Müller, Andrea G. (Germany)

• Kansy, Helga (Germany)
  Teaching Taboo Topics From A Bilingual Teacher Perspective
  
• Müller, Andrea G. (Germany)
  Proficiency of Immigrant Primary School Children in Everyday and School-Related Language
  (Both presentations in English)

Schools Where Literacy Thrives
Vorsitz: Conrady, Peter (Deutschland)

• Kleiner, Brigitte (Österreich)
  „Kinder schreiben für Kinder“ – eine Kultur in der Kultur?

Literacy and Technology
Présidence: Foucambert, Denis (France)

• Espinosa, Natacha (France)
  Evaluer la compréhension des textes. Quel lien possible entre littératie et logiciel informatique?
  
• Peters, Martine (Canada)
  Lecture et technologie: activités préférées par les apprenants.  

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Usacheva, Irena (Russia)

• Usacheva, Irena; Lazareva, Helena; Vostrikova, Natalia; Shcherbakova, Taisia (Russia)
  System-and-activity Approach to Reading and Literacy Research within INLOKKS Teaching Techniques as the Basis for Associated Schools of the International Reading Institute named after A. A. Leontiev

Literacy and Libraries/ Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Ericson, Britta (Sweden)

• Dias Delfina, Recipient of the European Award and Dionísio, Maria de Lourdes (Portugal).
  Giving Life to Letters … and to Young People. A Program for the Enhancement of Literacy Practices in Portugal.
• Ericson, Britta (Sweden)
  Reading – A Tool for Children to Succeed in School

International Studies
Chair: Valtin, Renate (Germany)

• Martin, Michael O.; Mullis, Ina V.S. (USA)
  Home Environments Fostering Children’s Reading Literacy: International Results from PIRLS 2001
  
• Kennedy, Ann M.; Trong, Kathleen (USA)
  Examining Gender, Early Literacy Activities, and Fourth Graders’ Reading Habits and Attitudes in PIRLS 2001

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Dunn, Michael (USA)

• Dunn, Michael (USA)
  Increasing Student Vocabulary: A District Wide Approach for Increasing Student Achievement in Reading
  

Literacy and Democracy
Chair: Naegele, Ingrid (Germany)

• Watson, Alan (Australia)
  Strengthening Primary Education: “A Matter of National Urgency”– A Tanzanian Case Study
  
• Emejulu, Obiajulu (Nigeria)
  Collective Illiteracy: Literacy and Development in 21st Century Africa in the Light of Two Berlin Conferences (1884/85& 2007) – A Nigerian Perspective

Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy
Chair: Vance, Ellis (USA)

• Brooking, Trish (New Zealand)
  Cultural Barriers to Learning: how can postcolonial literary texts contribute to a classroom environment of critical reflection?
  
• Shefelbine, Janet (USA)
  The Ramifications of Immigration for Literacy and Language Programs Along the Texas-Mexico Border

Oral Language and Literacy
Chair: Lyssand, Eldbjørg T (Norway)

• Reed, Ann; Dryden, Lisa (USA)
  Setting the Stage for Success through Communication, Expression, Articulation and Manifestation: Practices for the Enhancement of Oral Language Development

Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Chair: McElvany, Nele (Germany)

• Davey, Heidi (USA)
  Reaching to the Margins: How Teen Pregnancy Affects Literacy Motivation         

Reading Teachers and Teaching Strategies
Chair: Sasse, Ada (Germany)

• Haase, Peter (Germany)
  On the Transfer of Research Results of Neuropsychological into Practice of Teaching of Initial Literacy

Reading and Spelling Difficulties and Intervention
Chair: Dombey, Henrietta (United Kingdom)

• Breen, Leonard (USA)
  A Comparison of University and Public School Tutoring Services

Allan Luke (Australia): What Counts as the ‚Critical Literacy‘ in New Times?

Invitation to the 16th European Conference on Reading

Closing of the Conference