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Richard C. Owen Publishers Inc.
Hosts An Online Discussion

Retrospective Miscue Analysis
Helping Readers Revalue Reading  
with
Yetta Goodman, Prisca Martens,
Alan Flurkey, and Heidi Bacon

   
   When:   May 19-21, 2008
   Where: The Learning Network Listserve
   Cost:     No Charge—It is FREE
   Join the discussion: click  TLN discussions
                                        and fill out the form

We are pleased to offer this opportunity for educators to join an in-depth
online conversation about how Retrospective Miscue Analysis engages
readers of all ages in talking and thinking about how they read and about
themselves as readers.

Readers respond positively to such conversations because they believe they
are being taken seriously and they begin to appreciate their own reading
strengths. They enjoy working with teachers and other students in mature
ways to think, learn, and inquire into how reading works.

As students learn language, about language, and through language, they
understand the reading process, revalue themselves as readers, and read
more confidently and frequently.

Yetta, Alan, Prisca and Heidi have been involved in conversations about reading
with students for well over a decade and are eager to share their experiences
and what they have learned about readers and the learning process as a result.
 

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We invite all classroom teachers, administrators, and staff developers to be part
of the conversation.

●  Participate in a learning discussion with educators involved in theory,
    research, and practice of retrospective miscue analysis
●  Explore with colleagues the use of miscue analysis to inform and
    engage readers
●  Understand how RMA can change the nature of conversation in the
    classroom
●  Identify practical solutions regarding literacy instruction

Please share this invitation with your colleagues. To participate in the discussion,
click TLN discussions.  If you are new to TLN online discussions please
visit the online discussion page at www.rcowen.com for information and
transcripts of previous discussions. 

             
Bio Information

Yetta M. Goodman is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona –
Tucson, College of Education, Department of Language, Reading, and Culture.
She has been researching miscue analysis, early literacy process, and kid
watching for many years.  In addition to her leadership roles in many
professional organizations, she has authored and co-authored many books
and articles, including Reading Miscue Inventory, Reading Strategies, and
Retrospective Miscue Analysis: Revaluing readers and Reading. 

Prisca Martens is a professor in the Department of Elementary Education at
Towson University, Towson, Maryland. She teaches courses on reading,
assessment, and children’s literature. Her research interests include early
literacy, miscue analysis and retrospective miscue analysis. She is the author
of I Already Know How to Read: A Child’s View of Literacy and co-editor
(with Yetta Goodman) of Critical Issues in Early Literacy: Research and
Pedagogy.

Alan Flurkey completed his Ph.D. in Reading from the Program in
Language and Literacy at the University of Arizona. He has taught elementary
grades and special education classes applying knowledge of the reading process
in his work with students. He currently teaches at Hofstra University. He has
authored several journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor of Many
Cultures, Many Voices: Proceedings of the Whole Language Umbrella
Conference and On the Revolution of Reading: The Selected Writings of
Kenneth S. Goodman on the Reading Process.  His latest co-edited volume,
Scientific Realism in Studies of Reading, was published in fall of 2007.

Heidi Bacon completed her MA and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in
Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona. Heidi is a classroom
teacher at Pima Partnership High School in Tucson, AZ, where she works with
underserved youth teaching reading. Heidi uses RMA and Collaborative
Retrospective Miscue Analysis (CRMA) in her work with adolescent readers in
innovative ways and has conducted research in RMA and CRMA for the past
five years.

For more about Richard C. Owen Publishers Inc. ,
visit our website at www.RCOwen.com 

 







 Yetta Goodman
 Univ. Arizona, AZ

 

 Prisca Martens
 Towson Univ., MD












 Alan Flurkey
 Hofstra Univ., NY

 










 Heidi Bacon
 Pima HS, Tucson, AZ