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Annual Conference

FRA’s 42nd Annual Conference

Wyndham Orlando Resort

October 14-17, 2004

Conference Overview

We’ve rounded up leading researchers, young adult and children’s authors, and reading educators. 
Polish your boots, dust off your hat, mark your calendar, and plan to attend the Reading Roundup!

Visit the FRA web site at www.FLReads.org for information about individual sessions and speakers.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

10:00 a.m. –   8:00 p.m.

Registration

12:00 p.m. –   2:45 p.m.

Preconference Institutes

  3:00 p.m. –   5:45 p.m.

Preconference Institutes

  6:00 p.m. –   7:30 p.m.

FRA Board of Directors Meeting

  7:45 p.m. –   9:00 p.m.

OPENING CELEBRATION—Steven L. Layne

  9:15 p.m. –   9:45 p.m.

Ice Cream Social

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

  7:00 a.m. –   5:00 p.m.

Registration

  7:00 a.m. –   7:45 a.m.

Meeting for First-Time Conferees

  8:00 a.m. –   5:00 p.m.

Exhibits Open

  8:00 a.m. –   9:15 a.m.

FIRST GENERAL SESSION—Mary Ellen Vogt

  9:30 a.m. –  1l:30 a.m.

Two-hour Concurrent Sessions

  9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Speaker/Author Sessions—Marianne Berkes, Donna L. Knoell, Steven L. Layne, and Cris Tovani

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Speaker/Author Sessions—Camille L. Blachowicz and Greg Tang

12:00 p.m. –   1:30 p.m.

Book and Author Luncheon—Denise Fleming

  1:00 p.m. –   3:00 p.m.

Two-hour Concurrent Sessions

  1:00 p.m. –   2:00 p.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Author Sessions—Carol Crane and Bruce Hale

  2:15 p.m. –   3:15 p.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Author Session—Denise Fleming

  3:30 p.m. –   5:00 p.m.

SECOND GENERAL SESSION—Cris Tovani

  7:00 p.m. –   8:00 p.m.

President’s Reception

  8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Denim, Dancing, and Desserts

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

  7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Registration

  7:00 a.m. –   7:45 a.m.

Meeting for First-Time Conferees

  7:00 a.m. –   8:00 a.m.

FRA Delegates Breakfast

  8:00 a.m. –   3:00 p.m.

Exhibits Open

  8:15 a.m. –   9:45 a.m.

THIRD GENERAL SESSION—Timothy V. Rasinski

10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Secondary Reading Council of Florida Meeting

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Two-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Speaker Session -- William McBride

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Speaker/Author Sessions—Steven L. Layne and Greg Tang

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Speaker/Author Sessions—Carol Crane, Gary Dulabaum, Timothy V. Rasinski, and Nile Stanley

12:30 p.m. –   2:00 p.m.

Book and Author Luncheon—Sharon M. Draper

  1:00 p.m. –   3:00 p.m.

Two-hour Concurrent Sessions

  1:00 p.m. –   2:00 p.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions and Featured Author Sessions—Gary Dulabaum, Bruce Hale, and Nile Stanley

  2:15 p.m. –   3:15 p.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions

  3:30 p.m. –   5:00 p.m.

FOURTH GENERAL SESSION—William McBride

  7:30 p.m. –   9:00 p.m.

Authors’ Tales Around the Campfire—Carol Crane, Sharon M. Draper, Gary Dulabaum, Bruce Hale, Steven L. Layne, William McBride, and Nile Stanley

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17

  8:00 a.m. –    9:00 a.m.

One-hour Concurrent Sessions

  9:15 a.m. –  10:15 a.m.

FIFTH GENERAL SESSION—Donna L. Knoell

10:30 a.m. –  12:00 p.m.

CLOSING CELEBRATION—Sharon M. Draper

12:15 p.m. –    1:30 p.m.

FRA Board of Directors and Conference Committee Luncheon