ETAQ Saturday Seminar 1-2015 Getting Reading Right Saturday 14 March, 2015 Corinda State High School, Pratten Street, Corinda QLD 4075 Keynote Address: “We read to know we’re not alone”: Enabling and nurturing our students’ reading lives Presenter Associate Professor Jacqueline Manuel University of Sydney Jacqueline Manuel is Associate Professor in English education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She a BA (Hons 1) in English, a Dip Ed and a PhD in English Literature from the University of New England. She has published widely in the field of English education. Her most recent book is Teenagers and Reading: Literary heritages, cultural contexts and contemporary reading practices (Wakefield Press/AATE, 2012). Jackie’s research includes a focus on creativity and imagination in secondary English; teenagers’ reading; new teacher motivation; and student engagement with literature. She is a former Member of the NSW Board of Studies and has been Chief Examiner of NSW HSC English (Standard & Advanced, 2006-2011). Abstract In an age saturated by digital media and technology, what are our students choosing to read and why? What determines their choices and invests them with purpose and meaning? What excites and motivates them when it comes to reading? When are they reading and how are they reading? What are their attitudes and responses to the reading we require of them in English? Do boys and girls approach reading in gender-specific ways? How much consonance or dissonance exists between our expectations of our students’ reading and the story of their individual and shared reading lives? What insights, both practical and conceptual, does recent research offer us as teachers? In this presentation, I will focus on the ‘what, how, when, where, and why’ of contemporary teenagers’ reading. I will draw on Australian and international research in the field of teenagers’ reading practices and preferences as a stimulus for reconnecting with the enduring questions about our role as teachers in shaping the quality of our students’ reading lives. Exploring students’ perspectives on their attitudes to reading and their reading habits can serve to reorient us to the key challenges we face as we seek to enable engaged, curious, accomplished and satisfied readers. As teachers, our attentive and creative pedagogies can ignite and reignite the fuse of wonder and excitement about learning, being, connecting and knowing through purposeful immersion in language and the expansive trial
Session 1 (11:00 – 12:00) Session 2 (12:05 – 1:00) Workshop A Panel discussion – Jackie Manuel, Michelle Ragen and James Moloney, hosted by Lindsay Williams Session 1 only √ Workshop B It’s Alive! – Re-energising reading through transformed classics – Chelsea Parakas √ √ Workshop C Getting reading right with Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess – Garry Collins √ √ Workshop D High Reliability Reading: Building students’ comprehension before, during, and after reading – Julie Bliss √ Workshop E Top Level structure – an oldie but a goodie! – Pat Hipwell √ Workshop F Getting Reading Right with eBooks and ‘Born Digital’ Narratives – Dr Cherie Allan √ √ Workshop G Making Connections Between Real and Fictional Worlds – Anthony Ingold and Ana Session 2 only √ Workshop H Mr Darcy and That Wet Shirt: The Sequel – Natalie Fong and Heather Costello √ √ Workshop I Ha! Ha! Made you Read – Erin Geddes Session 2 only Workshop J ETAQ’s position on Senior Assessment and Tertiary Entrance changes – Fiona Laing Session 2 only