More Upcoming NCBIDA Events

January 31, 2009
Ways with Words: Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Marcia K. Henry, PhD
The Nueva School, Hillsborough

Improving and broadening vocabulary for all students in all subject areas is a major goal of current research and the National Reading Panel. Dr. Henry will lead participants through interactive strategies that show how analyzing a word's structure can reveal its meaning. Anglo-Saxon, Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes will be presented in this review of English morphology.

Marcia K. Henry, PhD, has almost 50 years of experience working in the field of language acquisition and dyslexia as a diagnostician, tutor, teacher, and professor. She speaks frequently at regional, national and international conference on topics related to intervention strategies for dyslexic learners. She also writes for professional journals and is the author of several books.


March 12 & 14, 2009
Two Workshops on the Science of the Reading Brain
with Maryanne Wolf, EdD
Thursday afternoon, March 12 - teachers only
Saturday morning, March 14 - parents and educators welcome
Palo Alto (sites to be announced)
Presented in conjunction with Palo Alto Unified School District

Maryanne Wolf, EdD, directs the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University and is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.



More information coming soon!