Read-On STARTALK 2014 Daily Schedule

Monday, July 21 (Day 1)
Morning
Program overview and summary of 2012 and 2013 (Claudia)
National standards, backward design, can-do statements, final products  (Meng)
Afternoon
Discussion of assigned articles and the use of authentic reading material in Chinese

Tuesday, July 22 (Day 2)
Full-day workshop on reading acquisition among CFL learners lead by expert guest lecturer Dr. Michael Everson 

Wednesday, July 23 (Day 3)
Morning
Workshop on Literacy Issues in CFL continued, Dr. Michael Everson
Afternoon
Small and whole-group discussions of sentence level reading skills: What skills do you need in order to “raud” at different levels?   How do you teach students to acquire these skills?  What type of readings can support this? 
Skills:

• Character and word recognition
• use of grammatical cues to identify phrases and sentence structure. 
• vocabulary building: word families.
• differences in English and Chinese preferred grammatical sequence (Subject + Adj. V).  
• paragraph level parsing: topic comment, topic chain, anaphoric omission, discourse connectors

Thursday, July 24 (Day 4)
Morning
Skype workshop with visiting expert Dr. Helen Shen: Instructional approaches for Chinese L2 extensive reading
Afternoon
Grade-level and full-group discussions of grade-level literacy goals and associated reading skills for level I and level 2, and research applications (team leaders)

Friday, July 25 (Day 5)
Morning
Grade-level teams continue brainstorming final project
Afternoon
Skype discussion with guest expert Dr. Yongfang Zhang: “Develop Literacy through Task-based Reading and Writing Activities”
Grade-level group discussions on the use of writing in reading assessment; formative/summative assessment

Saturday, July 26 (Day 6)
Morning
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
Afternoon
Continue working on modules.
Share module progress with whole group

Sunday, July 27 (Day 7): Site Visit
Morning
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
Presentation of K-5 module-in-progress
Group evaluation and discussion of K-5 module-in-progress.
Afternoon
Presentation of 9-12 module-in-progress.
Group evaluation and discussion of 9-12 module-in-progress.
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
In-progress assessment of program

Monday, July 28 (Day 8)
Morning
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
Afternoon
Presentation of 6-8 module-in-progress.
Group evaluation and discussion of 6-8 module-in-progress.
Group evaluation and discussion of 13+ module-in-progress.

Tuesday, July 29 (Day 9)
Morning
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
Afternoon
Presentation of 9-12 final module.
Group evaluation and discussion of 9-12 final module.
Presentation of K-5 final module.
Group evaluation and discussion of K-5 final module.

Wednesday, July 30 (Day 10)
Morning
Breakout sessions by grade-level teams to continue working on modules.
Afternoon
Presentation of 6-8 final module.
Group evaluation and discussion of 6-8 final module.
Presentation of 13+ final module.
Group evaluation and discussion of 13+ final module.
Final Banquet