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Janet Angelillo

Speaking Topics

• Launching writing workshop: 3-8
• Supporting struggling writers in the regular classroom
• Teaching punctuation and other conventions with purpose and precision : 1-8
• Teaching students to revise their writing through study of mentor texts: 2-8
• Teaching students to write book reviews, literary essays, and other literary genre: 3-8
• Writing about Reading: thinking and talking about texts in order to produce insightful writing about texts: 3-8

Speaker Bio

Janet Angelillo is the author of the Heinemann titles Whole-Class Teaching (2008), Writing to the Prompt (2005), and Writing About Reading (2003). She also wrote A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation (2002) and Making Revision Matter (2005).

A middle and upper grades classroom teacher for years, Janet is a literacy consultant who has worked throughout the U.S. and Canada. She was a senior staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and worked beside teachers in New York city schools. Janet has taught advanced sections and given keynote addresses at the Teachers College Summer Institutes and other institutes around the country. She has also presented at many conferences, including NCTE, IRA, and the New York State, Connecticut, and Delaware Reading Associations.

Grades: 1 - 8