27th National Reading Styles Conference

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Featured Speakers
Marie Carbo
National Award-Winning Researcher, author, international speaker, creator of the Carbo Recording Method®.
Topic: "Powerful Interventions for K-12 At-Risk Readers"
Rita Pierson
Humorist, inspirational speaker, national consultant.
Topic: "A Framework for Understanding Poverty"
Steven Kellogg
Award-winning author and illustrator of nearly 90 children’s books, including Best Friends, and Pinkerton, Behave!
Topic: "Telling Stories on Paper"
You Will Learn How to:
  • Organize/manage RTI Programs
  • Identify the reading styles of at-risk readers, & most effective interventions
  • S-t-r-e-t-c-h at-risk readers into high-level reading materials, improve reading comprehension, and monitor progress easily
  • Improve reading fluency quickly with the Carbo Recording Method®
  • Use your free Carbo recorded stories for high reading gains
  • Diagnose visual dyslexia quickly with colored overlays
  • Use Power Reading® with Tier 2 & Tier 3 students for easy progress monitoring
  • Use our Continuum of Modeling Reading Methods with all RTI tiers
  • Create exciting materials for all RTI tiers in our Make-and-Take Lab
  • Design stress-reducing environments and reading centers for all RTI tiers
  • Reduce discipline problems with reading styles management and techniques
Learn Powerful Reading Interventions for All Levels
  • The Administrator’s Strand: Inspiring and Focused on Results
  • Develop Effective Title 1, Special Ed. Labs and Inclusion Models
  • Establish Powerful RTI Programs and Prevent Special Education Placements Gr. K-12
  • Achieve Extraordinary Gains With ALL Students
  • Powerful Sessions Based on Our Nationally Validated Scientific Research
  • Satisfy Federal and State Mandates and Nurture a Love of Reading
  • Attend Focused Leadership Training in Reading for Administrators and Principals
  • Locate Money to do it All!
Learn How Darious, an 8th Grader, Gained 3.5 Years in Reading in 10 Months with Power Reading Online
Darious moved up from a 3.0 to a 6.5 reading level. Here’s why. Darious could choose some of the topics, stories, and reading levels he wanted to read. He practiced reading skills with fun games, listened to story introductions in Spanish, and felt in control of his learning. All stories were recorded by Marie Carbo and Bob Cole with Marie’s special recording method (featured in Essential Readings on Fluency, published by the IRA, 2009).
What You Will Receive
  • Our outstanding 250+ page conference book
  • Small kit of 24 colored overlays to assess and reduce visual dyslexia
  • Book of recorded Power Reading® stories, comics, and games, K-12
  • Certificate for 25 RSI® licenses
  • 2.5 CEUs
  • FREE 2-week trial of Power Reading® Online™ (Patent Pending)
Tuition
$495. Deduct $25 per person for 5 or more, $45 per person for 10 or more registering at the same time.

Principals and Administrators attend free. No Substitutes.*

Cancellations receive credit to a future conference. Substitutions welcome. A $50 deposit holds your reservation. Pay in full by June 15, 2010.

REGISTER ONLINE

* Qualifying Administrators: Superintendents and Asst. Superintendents, Directors of Title I, Federal Programs, Bilingual/ESL, Reading and Remedial Reading (K-12, Elem., Sec.). If in doubt as to whether you qualify, call us at 1 (800) 331-3117.
Schedule
Conference begins 8:30 am, July 9th and ends 11:30 am, July 12th.
View/Print - 2010 Schedule (2011 Schedule Coming Soon) | Sessions Description
Hotel
Hilton Palacio del Rio, $139 single/ double. Room rates guaranteed until June 11th, 2011. Register early to assure yourself a room (210-222-1400). Mention National Reading Styles Institute. Hilton will not charge credit cards until check-in.
Sights and Tours
Friendly people, great food, and a wonderful array of attractions—that's San Antonio. All part of San Antonio's fun are: the famous Alamo, the Riverwalk, Spanish missions, museums, theme parks, art galleries, antique shops, historic districts, botanical gardens, golf courses, horse racing, water parks, and a Mexican market.
“Provides the framework for inserting all the puzzle pieces of how students learn to produce outstanding achievement.”
Robert W. Katulak, Superintendent,
New Hyde Parl-Garden City Park UFSD, NY
“We took our 3rd Predictive Assessment Test in Reading and all Carbo students in 7/8 scored proficient or advanced except one (includes Sp. Ed. students). 100% attitude turn around!”
Lisa Stogner, Principal, Minor Hill Middle School, Knoxville, TN
“I truly enjoyed the recommended steps towards interventions—the strategies and activities are
wonderful!”
Gloria Marie Gonzales, 1st Gr. Teacher, St. John Berchman School, Edgewood ISD, TX
Who should attend?
K-Adult Administrators, Supervisors,
Staff Developers, Principals, Professors, Coaches, Teachers (Classroom,
Reading, Language Arts,ESL/
Bilingual LEP, Title 1,
Special Education), Parents.
“Never before have I attended such powerful, life-changing sessions. Your input and touch on my life will make a difference!”
Jan Hitchmough, Remedial Reading Teacher, Marshall, IL
2011 Conference Mission
To achieve the highest levels
of literacy and self-fulfillment
for educators and their
students through the
Reading Styles Program,
which celebrates and respects
diversity and individual styles.
Our school rose from 19% to 98% of our students passing the state reading tests, and received a state rating of ‘Exemplary’
Sherry Gorsuch, Principal, O’Connor Elementary, Victoria, TX
I did not go to one session that I didn't learn something new. I always came away with great ideas and resources.
Gina Treadway, Third-Grade Teacher, Gilmer ISD, TX
Reading Styles training motivates good teachers to become superior teachers, non-readers to become readers, good schools to become model schools - everyone wins with Reading Styles!
Kim Benton, Director of Federal Programs, Meridian, MS
My lab is up and running for 6 weeks, and I'm already seeing a 2-year gain in some of my 7th and 8th graders. I am so excited for them!
Jennifer Jordan, Reading Teacher, Etowah, TN

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