The Festschrift Symposium
Saturday, June 30, 2018
8:30am-5:00pm
Berkeley Way Building
2121 Berkeley Way, CA 94720
Symposium Program
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Invocation
Prudence L. Carter
Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley
Highlights from David’s Career
Freddy Hiebert
9:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
MORNING SESSIONS
The Nature of Comprehension
with Richard Anderson, Rob Tierney, and Kate Frankel
Comprehension Instruction
with Nell Duke, Taffy Raphael, and Ian Wilkinson
Session References
Comprehension Assessment
with Peter Afflerbach, Georgia Garcia, Michael Kamil, Yukie Toyama, and Karen Wixson
Session References
Assessment and Diversity. Garcia, G. E. & Pearson, P. D. (1994)
12:10 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
Diane August
The Moderating Influence of Instructional Intensity and Word Type on the Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary in Young English Learners
Alison K. Billman and P. David Pearson
First Grade, Second Language: Uniting Science Knowledge and Literacy Development for English Learners
Gina Biancarosa
Advancing Reading Comprehension Assessment
Alexander Blum
The Structure of Inferential-Integrative-
Devon Brenner and Elfrieda H. Hiebert
If I Follow the Teachers’ Editions, Isn’t That Enough? Analyzing Volume of Reading in Six Reading Core Programs
Leslie Buffen, Marjorie Rowe, Alison Billman, and P. David Pearson
Assessing Science Knowledge & Language Use in Emergent Bilingual First Grade Students
Douglas K. Hartman
Comprehending the Unbound Book
LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
Robin Irey
Developmental Trajectory of Textual Morphological Awareness
Alejandra Ojeda-Beck
Graphic Novel for Vocabulary Growth and Reading Motivation
Sunaina Shenoy and Richard K. Wagner
Progress-monitoring Tools to Measure the Reading Development of Students in Bangalore, India
Yukie Toyama
Investigating the Effects of the Reader-, the Text-, and the Task-characteristics on Comprehension, Using Explanatory Item Response Models
Chad Vignola, Dr. Nicole Renner, Eleanor Dougherty, Rob Kantner, and the LDC Team
Five Years and 70,000 teachers later: Dr. David Pearson and team Improve Teacher Capacity Particularly in Support of the most Disadvantaged Students through the Literacy Design Collaborative’s co-designed EdTech platform
Jenny Zhang
Literacy and International Development—Perspectives from Indonesia
1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Teacher Learning and Comprehension
with Janice Dole, Barbara Taylor, and Sarah Woulfin
Session References
The Stuff of Comprehension (Revisiting Reader, Text, and Context)
with Gina Cervetti, Freddy Hiebert, and Sheila Valencia
Session References
Reflections on the Day
P. David Pearson
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.