7:30 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome and Overview of CREATE
David J. Francis, Director, CREATE
Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds, Deputy Commissioner, Texas Education Agency

LITERACY & ORAL LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

8:20 am

Enhancing the Content-Area Literacy and Learning of English Language Learners
Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan

9:00 am

Discussions as a Context for Increasing the Literacy and Oral Language Learning of English Language Learners
Claire White, Harvard University

9:40 am

Morning Break

10:00 am

Small Group Break-Out Sessions

11:15 am

Q & A with Morning Speakers

12:00 pm

Lunch

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

1:30 pm

Testing the Efficacy of a Cognate Curriculum
Maria Carlo, University of Miami
Diane August, Center for Applied Linguistics

2:10 pm

Response to Intervention with Middle-School Students
Sharon Vaughn, University of Texas, Austin

2:50 pm

Afternoon Break

3:15 pm

Small Group Break-Out Sessions

Breakfast

OUTSIDE THE BOX: PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES FOR ELLS

Effects of a Large-Scale Vocabulary Intervention
Michael Kieffer, Columbia University

Attending to the Needs of Long-Term English Language Learners
Tatyana Kleyn, City University of New York

Morning Break

9:35 am

Attending to the Needs of Newcomers
Deborah Short, Center for Applied Linguistics

Small Group Break-Out Sessions

Q & A with Morning Speakers

Lunch

LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND DISCIPLINARY LEARNING:
CREATE Findings and Current Directions

1:00 pm

...in SIOP:
Jana Echevarria & Cara Richards, CSU-Long Beach

...in Science:
Diane August, Center for Applied Linguistics

...in Social Studies:
Sylvia Linan-Thompson, University of Texas, Austin

1:50 pm

Oral Language Development in Disciplinary Literacy Development
Aída Walqui, WestEd

Q & A with Afternoon Speakers

Conference Wrap-Up