Focus on Literacy: The Key to Student Success Current research is providing teachers with an increasing knowledge base that can be used to design lessons that maximize learning in the classroom. Instructional strategies addressing the interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes of communication will be highlighted as teachers participate in activities that require little additional preparation time. Emphasis will be placed on the literacy skills involved in teaching reading and writing while engaging students meaningfully with texts. Suggested activities are designed to increase student engagement and to make students more accountable for their own learning. Laura Terrill Laura Terrill holds a BA in French from the University of Missouri — St. Louis and a MA in Secondary Administration from Northeast Missouri State University. She taught French at all levels for 21 years before becoming the Coordinator of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language and then, Director of Curriculum in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO before taking early retirement to join her husband in Puerto Rico. She has taught methods courses at Washington University and has been active at the local, state, regional and national levels. She served as the Central States delegate to the ACTFL Board and was the 2006 Program Chair for the ACTFL Convention. She recently taught high school French in Indianapolis and is currently working as an independent consultant in World Language and ELL.

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