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Vermont Council On Reading Conference

Vermont C ouncil o n R eading

2015 S pring C onference

The C ommon C ore a nd M ore:

Pathways a nd B ridges t o L iterate L ives

A D ay W ith

Lucy C alkins

and

Katherine P aterson

Friday, M ay 2 9, 2 015

Sheraton C onference C enter, 8 70 W illiston R d., B urlington, V T 0 5403

Lucy Calkins, Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, is the author or co-author of 40+ books including

the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grades K-8 written with the TCRWP community and Pathways to the

Common Core, The Art of Teaching Reading, The Art of Teaching Writing, and Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5. Calkins

is the Richard Robinson Professor of Children’s Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University where she co-directs the Literacy

Specialist Program.

Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 30 books including16 novels for children and young people, and has received the most

prestigious awards granted to writers of children’s literature. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and

Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. The Master Puppeteer won the National Book Award in 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins won the

National Book Award in 1979 and was also a Newbery Honor Book. For the body of her work she received the Hans Christian Anderson

Award in 1998, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2006, and in 2000 was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. She

recently published Stories of My Life (Oct., 2014), in which she

shares the personal stories that inspired her children’s books.

Katherine

lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

Vermont Council On Reading Conference