2019 NCTE Annual Convention

10:30 am

11:00 am

11:30 am

12:00 pm

1:00 pm

5:00 pm

2:30 pm

3:00 pm

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

Carol Jago author signing - Receive a complimentary copy of Carol’s book, The Book in Question: Why and How Reading Is in Crisis and a HMH Anchor Chart

5:00 pm

9:00 am

12:30 pm

Carol Jago - Becoming Readers: Reading to Renew, Repurpose, and Resist

Session B

Convention Center 330

Presenters will explore ways students can unleash the radical energies of both older and newer texts and put them to work in their lives. Presenters will offer ways to spark student interest in literary texts through a rhetorical approach that examines the complex social worlds and identities that shape acts of communication, including students’ own experiences, interests, and purposes. Attendees will return to their classrooms ready to engage students in literature as a framework for responding to the world in which they live.

8:00 am

Carol Jago - High School Matters

Session J

Ballroom IV

Hot Reading Titles for Your Classroom. Carol Jago highlights this special secondary section. Participants will receive Carol's famous bookmark with the hottest book titles. In addition, they will have an opportunity to visit a roundtable regarding numerous literature topics and issues.

11:00 am

Carol Jago - Shared Inquiry on Critical Theory in the Literature Classroom: A Symposium on the Role and Value of Teaching Critical Theory to Adolescents

Session K

Convention Center 310

Leading scholars in the teaching of literature will offer opposing views of the proper role and value of literary theory in teaching literature to adolescent readers. Two additional leading scholars will respond briefly to their presentations. The session will also include an experiment in literary interpretation and an open discussion on the place of theory in the teaching of literature.

12:30 pm

Erik Palmer - Effective Inquiry Requires Effective Speaking: Teaching Oral Communication Skills to Improve Inquiry-Based Instruction

Convention Center 342

Speaking skills are an afterthought in most English classrooms. While every class at every grade level has student-speaking activities, very few teachers give specific instruction about how to be successful with those activities. Inquiry-based instruction requires us to stop shortchanging oral communication. How do students question? Often verbally. How do they discuss? Verbally. How do they interview? Verbally. How do they present their findings? Overwhelmingly, verbally. Learn how to improve the speaking skills of every student to make them confident, competent communicators. Experience activities and work with digital tools that develop and showcase oral communication while enhancing inquiry-based instruction.

10:30 pm

Carol Jago - Teaching Social Emotional Skills through Literature 

Exhibitor Session

Johnson A/B

Studies demonstrate that well-designed SEL instruction can increase students’ academic achievement and improve life outcomes. But social-emotional learning entails more than a checklist of character traits. Students must learn to envision the lives of others and expand their ability to respond to others. For that, there is no better vehicle than literature. Books are safe spaces for exploring terrifying places. They transport us to other times, cultures, and worlds like no other vehicle can. Carol Jago will demonstrate how to engage students in powerful conversations about complex texts that build empathy and deepen comprehension. Engagement begins on the page! Receive a Learning Mindset poster.