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Welcome to the 2023 State of Maryland Literacy Association Conference. This is Maryland’s 51st annual conference!  The three day event is packed with exciting opportunities for professional development, networking, and examining exemplary materials for classroom use. This conference is intended for a wide-range of audiences including classroom teachers, reading specialists, special educators, curriculum specialists, administrators, and other educators. There is a variety of high caliber speakers, researchers, practitioners, publishers, and authors that are presenting throughout the conference, as well as during the pre-conference  "Session Saturday" presentations and Professional Learning Book Study group. You may apply for CPD credits through MDSE by filling out the form linked here.  To qualify, you must have attended 15 hours total per credit.  This includes time you spent engaged in "Session Saturday" presentations and the Book Study sessions.  Please fill out all of the information.  Incomplete requests will not be filled. Requests will be cross referenced with attendance from "Session Saturday" presentations, Book Study sessions, and sessions attended on the weekend of March 30-April 1st 2023.   If you participated for the required hours, you will receive a credit for each 15 hours of participation. Please be patient, you will receive your form.

If you have not yet registered, do so today by clicking on this Eventbright Link.

For general questions, contact the Conference Coordinator, Gayle Glick at ggayle56@aol.com.
Saturday, April 1 • 10:00am - 10:50am
Story Groove: Help Students Comprehend and Craft Totally Gnarly Narratives

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In this session, author Trevor Bryan shares five simple, accessible and actionable concepts that will change how you think about, talk about and teach narrative reading and writing. The takeaways from this workshop will help you help your students to make meaning of the stories they read and make meaningful the stories they create. Reading and writing have always been related, this workshop will make the relationship clearer and more cohesive than ever before. If you are looking to strengthen your students’ comprehension and narrative craft skills, then this workshop is for you.

Speakers
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Trevor Bryan

Trevor Bryan has two core beliefs about the arts. The first is that the arts foster joy and connection, especially when times or topics are tough. And the second is that the arts help us to make meaning of our human experience. These beliefs, along with numerous, meaningful arts experiences... Read More →



Saturday April 1, 2023 10:00am - 10:50am EDT