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Miriam Trehearne: Avoiding the “Fourth Grade Reading Slump” and the “Eighth Grade Reading Cliff” Beginning in the Primary Grades!

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About Miriam:

Miriam Trehearne has been a classroom teacher, resource teacher, program specialist (exceptional needs students) coach, Literacy Specialist and University Associate. As a Literacy Specialist, she led a very successful research-based literacy initiative involving 56 high needs schools in a large urban school district which resulted in closing the literacy gap. The results have been documented by the University of Calgary and an independent program evaluator. She presently devotes much for her time to researching literacy best practices, presenting to teachers, literacy coaches and school administrators at conferences and writing books and journal articles.

Miriam has spoken at numerous IRA, Early Childhood, Title 1, Reading First and Reading Recovery Conferences across North America. She spoke at the World Congress of the International Reading Association in Edinburgh, Scotland and at the I.R.A. Annual Conferences in Orlando, Reno, San Antonio, Chicago and Toronto Canada. Miriam co-chaired a one day Institute with renowned literacy expert Regie Routman at the 50th Annual IRA Conference and Keynoted at the ASCD 24th Annual Kindergarten Conference in Chicago. She is a frequent speaker at the National Reading Recovery Conference in Columbus, NAEYC and ASCD Annual Conferences and at Literacy For All (Lesley College) in Providence RI. Recently she keynoted at Michigan Reading, Georgia Reading, the Arkansas Reading Recovery and Literacy Conference and South Carolina Reading. She was a Featured Speaker at Literacy 2006: Bridging the Divide, Washington DC Public Schools and the IRA Urban Diversity Commission. In September 2007 she keynoted and did three days of literacy workshops in Buenos Aires Argentina. In July 2008 she spoke at the IRA World Congress in Costa Rica. In July 2009 she will speak at the European Conference on Reading in Portugal.

She has published in several professional journals and was senior author of Comprehensive Literacy Resource for Kindergarten Teachers, the 2006 AEP award winning Comprehensive Literacy Resource for Grades 1-2 Teachers and The Comprehensive Literacy Resource for Preschool Teachers. The Comprehensive Literacy Resource for Grade 3-6 Teachers was published in 2006 and was a finalist for the AEP Award 2007. Her professional resources are available in the US through ETA Cuisenaire and in Canada through Nelson Learning Ltd. Miriam has been honored as a Canada Post 2001 Literacy Educator Finalist.