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to wish each of you a restful

and enjoyable summer break.

Don’t forget to make plans to

attend IRA’s Southeast Re-

gional Conference in Nash-

ville, December 7-10. Vickie

and Randy are working dili-

gently to make this conference

a great success.

Thank you so much for the

many ways you have given

support during my tenure as

President of the Tennessee

Reading Association.

Delise Sanders

President, Tennessee Reading

Association

Dear TRA Members,

Serving as an officer in the Ten-

nessee Reading Association has

been a most rewarding learning

experience and one that has al-

lowed me to meet many wonder-

ful people across Tennessee and

the country. It has been a pleas-

ure to work with TRA board.

Their professionalism and

knowledge is a continuous

source of inspiration to our or-

ganization. Their support and

help were much appreciated and

certainly needed during my term

in office. This support will con-

tinue as Kristen Pennycuff-Trent

assumes the presidency at the

July board meeting.

With the retirement of so many

of our long time members, we

have a great task ahead of us in

maintaining our membership. I

want to encourage each council

member to make an effort to

meet new teachers and invite

them to join in their local coun-

cil. The Tennessee Reading As-

sociation offers many excep-

tional opportunities for profes-

sional growth in so many venues.

Making new teachers aware of

TRA’s offerings will not only

encourage new membership but

will also strengthen the teaching

profession as a whole. Please

remember to make new and pro-

spective members aware of our

web site, our journal and the

newsletter.

As we enter the closing days of

the 2008-09 school year, I want

From The President

SPRING 2008 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

TENNESSEE READING ASSOCIATION

Inside this issue:

From the President 1

Southeast IRA Regional 1

The Coordinator’s Corner 2

Literacy Camp 3

TRA Officers 2007-2008 4

Leadership Conference 4

Sevier Co Workshop 5

26th Annual Southeast IRA Conference

Reading: The Bridge to the Future

December 7-10, 2008

Nashville Convention Center & Renais-

sance Hotel

Nashville, Tennessee

Come play in Music City and enjoy these

great speakers!

Barbara Walker-IRA President, Ashley Bryan, Mo Willems, Mike Wimmer, Frank Keating, Timothy

Rasinski, Kathleen Duey,Tim Shanaham, Rich

Long, Mike Shoulders ...and many more!

The Coordinator’s Corner

Greetings!

I just wanted to let each of the TRA Board and

the Council Officers know how much I appreciate

your hard work and the many sacrifices you make

to ensure that Tennessee Reading is again highly

regarded as an outstanding council for the Inter-

national Reading Association. Congratulations

go to Vicki Manus on receiving the Maryann

Manning Outstanding Volunteer Award from IRA

and to Melissa Brock for receiving her award as

Metro Teacher of the Year. TRA will receive the

Horizon Award, for achieving the greatest growth

in student memberships for IRA in Atlanta in a

couple of weeks. Wow! What a year so far!

Speaking of Atlanta, I hope to see many of you

there. Over 20,000 teachers, administrators, re-

searchers, and others will gather at the 53rd An-

nual International Reading Conference on May 4-

8. This will be an exciting time for all of us.

TRA will have a booth supporting attendance for

the 26th Annual Southeast Regional we are host-

ing in Nashville, December 7 – 10, 2008.

Thanks for Vicki and her hard work this confer-

ence looks to be a great one with many wonder-

ful speakers and sessions to attend. Make your

plans now and request those Title 1 Funds to

attend. This conference and the international

have both been approved for attendance through

the Staff Development Component of Title 1

Legislation.

I look forward to Montgomery Bell in July. The

registration and lodging forms just went out by

email so remember I must have those no later

than May 14th. Charles Maynard will be our

entertainment and guest for the Thursday night

dinner.

Thanks again and I look forward to seeing all of

you in Atlanta or at Montgomery Bell.

Randall B Kincaid

State Coordinator

SPRING 2008 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

TENNESSEE READING ASSOCIATION

Websites to Check Out

Tennessee Reading Association- http://www.tn-reading.org/

International Reading Association-http://www.reading.org/

TN Department of Ed- http://www.state.tn.us/education/

Summer Professional Development-http://tennessee.gov/

education/news/newsletter/AppleBites_spring08.pdf

Young Author’s and Junior Author’s Conference a Success!

On April 21 and 22, 2008, over 800 students from across Sevier County met for the annual author’s confer-

ence that was held at Sevier County High for the Junior Author’s (Grades 5-8) and at Pigeon Forge Primary

School for the Young Author’s (Grades 1-4). This year Sevier County Reading selected Susan Stevens Crum-

mel and her sister, Janet Stevens, to lead the conferences. The ladies were a tremendous success. Susan and

Janet involved all students in their presentation, were funny, exciting, and worked great with students. During

the day on the 21st and 22nd, Janet and Susan spent the day at two schools which had 100% membership in

SCRA and TRA. This is quite a treat to have the authors if all of your teachers and staff belong. Seymour Pri-

mary and Pigeon Forge Primary were delighted to host these outstanding authors. With book sales from the

schools and the conference, the Learning Tree sold over 1200 books. Each child who was chosen to attend the

conference from their class (2 students are chosen form each class), received a signed copy of “Cook- A –

Doodle – Do” along with a Reading Medal for their hard work. The older students received a back pack for

their hard work and attendance at the conference. Janet drew 6 foot tall bears designed by the students and

donated them to Seymour Primary and Pigeon Forge to be framed and hung in the library or entrance way.

We now look forward to next year’s conferences.

Literacy Camp June 19th or 20th

Literacy Camp

June 19th or 20th

Trevecca Nazarene University

A one-day camp covers

Needs of ELL Students

Identifying Struggling Readers

Using Higher Order Thinking Skills with Struggling Readers

Strategies for Struggling Readers

Presenters:

Dr. Maira Elena Arguelles– National ELL Consultant

Dr. Sandy Smith– TN Tech

Dr. Valerie Rutlege– UT Chattanooga

Dr. Alice Patterson– Trevecca

Information is on the list server for director, supervisor &

principals or Etta.Crittenden@state.tn.us

Summer

Study

Abounds in

Tennessee

For more

information on

summer

Professional

Development go

to :

http://

tennessee.gov

/education/

news/

newsletter/

AppleBites_sp

ring08.pdf

Page 3

TENNESSEE READING ASSOCIATION

Congratulations

to Melissa Brock,

president elect,

who was named

2008 Metro

Nashville Public

Elementary

Teacher of the

Year!

Congratulations to

Vickie Manus who

was awarded the

2008 IRA Maryann

Manning Out-

standing Volunteer

Service Award!

Congratulations to

Delise Sanders, TRA

president, awarded

Tennessee Outstanding

Elementary Social

Studies Teacher of the

Year by the Tennessee Council for the So-

cial Studies.

dinating this event,

and we look forward

to hosting the stu-

dent winners and

their families. Our

new president for

2008-2009 is Kathryn

Pattullo, and she and

the other board

The Middle Tennes-

see Reading Asso-

ciation will host

Celebrate Literacy

on Friday, April 25,

at Lipscomb Univer-

sity in Nashville. We

thank Judy Price and

Jaimie Potts for coor-

members will be working

this summer to plan an excit-

ing and fruitful year for

MTRA. Melanie Collins,

Reading Specialist Bordeaux

Enhanced Option Elemen-

tary 291-6355 ext. 219

R.E.A.D. (Reading Enhances

Another Day)

Congratulations!

Middle Tennessee Reading Association

TRA 2008-2009 Officers

Leadership

Conference

July 10-11th

Montgomery Bell State Park

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VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

Congratulations to

Joanne Brengel,

who has been se-

lected teacher of the

year in Montgomery

County.

TENNESSEE READING ASSOCIATION

Ph.D. provides training

workshops and consulta-

tion across the United

States and internationally.

Dr. Hasbrouck worked as

a reading specialist for 15

years and has taught un-

dergraduate and gradu-

ate courses as a univer-

sity professor. Her re-

search in reading flu-

ency, academic assess-

ment and interventions,

and consultation has

been widely.

These two ladies are two

of the authors of our new

McMillan McGraw-Hill

Reading Series. They will

be presenting strategies

and activities for reading

as well as Differentiated

Instruction, Tier Model,

and Inclusion Strategies.

This will be your chance

to ask those all important

questions you wanted to

Vicki Gibson,

Ph.D.

Vicki Gibson,

Ph.D., is the

owner and di-

rector of Long-

mire Learning Center

(LLC). She has been teach-

ing kindergarten, training

staff, writing, curriculum,

and directing instruction

for 27 years. Prior to open-

ing LLC, Gibson worked

for 10 years in public

school environments as a

kindergarten teacher, spe-

cial education resource

teacher, adaptive behav-

ioral specialist, and con-

sultant for classroom teach-

ers as a learning disability

specialist.

Jan Hasbrouck,

Ph.D.

Jan Hasbrouck,

ask. SCRA proudly

brings Ms. Susan Johns-

ton and Ms. Jennifer

Cole presenting Math

and Science Strategies

for the classroom on

Wednesday and Thurs-

day. These two days will

be a make and take

based on our new state

objectives. These ladies

come highly recom-

mended by Sevierville

Primary Principal Harriet

Berrier.

Future publication dates

on TRA website: August

2008, December 2008, and

April 2009.

SEVIER COUNTY READING ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL SUMMER WORKSHOP

JUNE 16-19, 2008

Randall B. Kincaid, President

SCRA proudly presents Dr. Gibson and Dr. Hasbrouk on Monday and Tuesday. These

workshops are directly related to our system’s test scores validated for school

improvement through our TCSPP and system wide test data collected by the

individual grade level supervisors. Title Funds are acceptable as part of your school

Title 1 Planning Program.

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