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**and Grammar: Implications for 9-16 Curriculum Alignment ** **and Professional Development **
 * How Kentucky High School English Teachers Teach Reading **

This workshop presents results of a statewide survey about content and strategies high school English teachers use for teaching grammar, reading literature, and reading for information. It will allow teachers to compare their own curriculum maps and approaches to those of other schools across the state and allow teacher preparers to review curriculum alignment issues. Because curriculum alignment is important to both high school teachers and to higher education faculty who prepare teachers, the session will be of interest to both levels.

//Presenters: Kathryn Mincey, Morehead State University // //Caitlin Lacey, Morehead State University //

Ms. Mincey has extensive experience in collaboration with English teachers in Kentucky schools. For several years, she directed the Volunteer Writing Coach Project in Rowan County Schools and coordinated an external grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Inc. to explore reading and writing poetry with young students. She also participated two years in the MSU Professors in Schools program and has taught secondary methods courses and supervised student teachers in English. She has frequently presented teaching methods sessions at the KCTE and has published a variety of related articles in the Kentucky, California, Virginia, Arizona, and New England English Bulletins. Ms. Mincey has a strong interest in curriculum alignment in language arts and in supporting professional development for teachers.

Joining Ms. Mincey in conducting the research and presenting the results is Caitlin Lacey, a senior MSU English education major with a concentration on secondary teaching. Ms. Lacey has assisted in the design and implementation of the research and is very interested in the implications that the project will produce because of its impact on her field of study.


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