José A. Montelongo: Conference Presentations

Library Science and Information Literacy Conferences

Brick and Click Academic Library Symposium (November, 2007)
"Information literacy" to be presented at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri.
Regional Conference on Excellence in Teaching and Learning (April, 2007)
"Information literacy: A web-based module to facilitate the summarization and evaluation of quantitative research studies in the social sciences." Presented in Fresno, CA.

Bilingual Education Conferences

National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE), (February, 2007) San José, CA.
"Using Text Guides to Facilitate Summarization in the Content Areas."
"Levels of Cognatedness: Concept Learning and Memory for Spanish-English Cognates."
"Using the Sentence Completion Task to Develop and Reinforce the Understanding of Mathematics Word Problems."
"Using the Sentence Completion Task to Reinforce Knowledge of Text Structures."
California Association of Bilingual Educators, (March, 2007) Long Beach, CA.
"Not all Spanish-English Cognates are Obvious Equivalents!"
"Using the Sentence Completion Task to Familiarize Students with Expository Text Structures."
"Using Text Guides to Facilitate Summarization in the Content Area Classroom."
New Mexico Association of Bilingual Educators (April, 2007)
"Using Spanish-English cognates to facilitate instruction for ELLs." presented in Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education Conference (April, 2006)
"Text guides and summarization," presented in Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education Conference (April, 2005)
"Sentence completion task and task structures," presented in Albuquerque, NM.

Reading Conferences

International Reading Association Annual Conference, (May, 2007)
"Some Spanish-English Cognates are easier than others; facilitating vocabulary acquisition by Latino English Language Learners, kindergarten through adult." presented in Toronto, Ontario.
International Reading Association Annual Conference (May, 2006)
"A Method for Teaching, Mapping, and Reinforcing Expository Text Structures to Elementary and Middle School Students Using the Sentence Completion Activity," presented in Chicago, IL.

Science Conferences

Literacy Connections through Science Conference (April, 2005)
"Reading for Reactions," presented in Fresno, CA.

Social Studies Conferences

National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (November, 2007)
"A Lesson Cycle for Middle School ESL Learners" to be presented in San Diego, California.