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Professional Learning Series: Going Graphic! Increasing Achievement with Graphic Texts

Archived Presentation by David Booth

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Brightpoint Literacy Professional Learning Series , Booth-20091007 2302
October 7, 2009, 8:06 pm New York Time
1 hour 2 mins

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Going Graphic-Increasing Achievement with Graphic Texts

Presented by David Booth

Engaging students with this dynamic text form is only one of the positive results of using graphic texts with students. Join David Booth as he points out ways to explore text for achieving high-level thinking.

 

About the Presenter

David Booth is a renowned educator and Professor Emeritus in Education and Coordinator of the Pre-Service Elementary program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. He has been involved in education for more than 40 years, has taught children and teachers, and is one of the leading experts on literacy in North America. He is well known as an international speaker, having worked with teachers and administrators throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and Asia.

David has authored many teacher reference books and textbooks in all areas of language development: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. His publications include Boosting Literacy with Graphic Novels (2006), I Want to Read! Reading, Writing, and Really Learning (2004), Even Hockey Players Read (2000), Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers (2004), Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore (2006), and The Literacy Principal, Second Edition (2007).