Conference Schedule SPRING CONFERENCE of the International Dyslexia Association—Wisconsin Branch
IDA-WI Spring Conference “Learning Enabled”
Saturday, April 22, 2017, 8:00 am—5:00 pm
Olympia Village, 1350 Royale Mile Rd., Oconomowoc, WI 53066, (262) 369-4999
Conference Schedule
8:00-9:00
Registration
9:00
Welcome and Morning Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robinson
Special Education is Not the Last Stop: Rewriting Your Own Narrative
10:30
Break/Visit Vendors
11:00
Break-Out Sessions #1, #2, #3, #4
 Interactive Tutoring: Using Multisensory Magic to Engage the Senses So That
Learning Sticks
 Teaching Orton-Gillingham Online
 Syllabication and Spelling Rules
 Pure and Complete Phonics: The Curriculum of Dr. Robert T. Nash
12:15
Lunch/Visit Vendors
1:15
Break-Out Sessions #5, #6, #7, #8
Interactive Tutoring: Using Multisensory Magic to Engage the Senses So That
Learning Sticks
 Using iPad Apps to Support Literacy Instruction
 Dyslexia Simulation—Pat Dunham
 Teaching Orton-Gillingham Online

2:30
Break/Visit Vendors
3:00
Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dykstra
Effective Reading Instruction for All Students
4:15
Wrap-up, Drawings, Visit Vendors
Staying overnight? Rooms are available $70.00 plus tax. Call Olympia Village: 262-369-4999.
Additional Conference information is available online at wi.dyslexiaida.org
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International Dyslexia Association—Wisconsin Branch
Session Information SPRING CONFERENCE of the International Dyslexia Association—Wisconsin Branch
11:00 AM Break-Out Sessions
Break-Out Sessions: Choose one topic from each time frame.
1
2
Jennifer Hasser
Marsha Gellar
Interactive Tutoring: Using Multisensory Magic to Engage the
Senses So That Learning Sticks
Learn practical ideas and solutions
for teaching dyslexic students
through multisensory activities.
Attendees will participate in
activities and games that can be
used for one-on-one and
classroom instruction.
Teaching Orton-Gillingham Online
Thinking about structured literacy
tutoring online? Don’t know what
to do or how to do it? This session
will show you how you can adapt a
structured literacy lesson to an
online format. Suggestions for
materials and online platforms will
be demonstrated.
1:15 PM Break-Out Sessions
5
Jennifer Hasser
Interactive Tutoring: Using
Multisensory Magic to Engage
the Senses So That Learning
Sticks
Learn practical ideas and solutions
for teaching dyslexic students
through multisensory activities.
Attendees will participate in
activities and games that can be
used for one-on-one and
classroom instruction.
3
Kelly Stienke
Spelling Rules & Syllabication
Techniques: Introducing Silver
Moon Spelling Rules Are you a
teacher, parent, or specialist who
would like a fun and engaging way
to teach spelling rules so they stick?
Maybe you’ve wondered which
spelling rules you should teach and
in what order you should teach
them. Silver Moon takes the
guesswork and frustration out of
spelling instruction! In this session
we will review foundational spelling
and reading skills such as basic
phonemic awareness, auditory
discrimination, and alphabetic
principle. You will be introduced to
the lesson format and scope and
sequence of the spelling rules in the
Silver Moon Program. You’ll learn
that each rule is paired with a
catchy name, visual imagery, and
mnemonic devices to aid memory.
There will be an opportunity to
follow along as a lesson is modeled.
Lastly, steps for basic syllable
division rules will be shared.
6
Elaine
Cheesman
Using iPad Apps to Support
Literacy Instruction
This session explores iPad Apps
to support research-based
literacy instruction.
Throughout this presentation,
Dr. Cheesman demonstrates
iPad apps that are intuitive,
research-based, and focus on
specific literacy skills, including
letter naming and handwriting,
phonemic awareness,
decoding and spelling,
morphology, vocabulary, text
comprehension and writing
skills. In addition, participants
will gain skills to assess app
quality.
7
Pat Dunham
Dyslexia Simulation
Increase awareness
through participating
in a hands-on-experience
that imitates the difficulties and
frustrations faced by many people
with dyslexia or other learning
disabilities in a variety of situations.
4
Dr. Robinson
Pure and Complete Phonics: The
Curriculum of Dr. Robert T. Nash
Dr. Robert T. Nash, former
director of Project Success at the
University of Wisconsin, began
serving students with reading
disabilities in 1979. Dr. Nash
spent 30 years developing a
language and literacy curriculum
called Pure and Complete Phonics
(P/C-Phs) that incldes how to
spell and use words correctly,
build vocabulary, increase
reading rate, and understand
morphemes, synonyms and
antonyms. The overarching goal
of P/C-Phs is that participants of
the curriculum will become
independent in spelling, reading,
and comprehension. Students will
acquire their language
independence by mastering the
entire phonemic sound structure
of the American-English
language. Audience members will
go through a lesson of P/C-Phs in
the areas of spelling and reading.
8
Marsha Gellar
Teaching Orton-Gillingham
Online
Thinking about structured literacy
tutoring online? Don’t know what
to do or how to do it? This session
will show you how you can adapt
a structured literacy lesson to an
online format. Suggestions for
materials and online platforms
will be demonstrated.