| About
the Speaker
Mary Abouzeid, Ph.D.
Professor of Education
Director of McGuffey/TEMPO Reading Outreach
program
Mary Abouzeid is a professor in the Curry School
of Education at
the University of Virginia and the Director of McGuffey/TEMPO Reading
Outreach, the University’s statewide professional development
program for teachers and part of the McGuffey Reading Center at
UVa. Abouzeid's work focuses on teaching teachers how to teach
children to read. Helping implement the federal Reading First initiative
in Virginia, Abouzeid and her colleagues work with teachers and
schools on research-based methods to match children's instruction
to their assessment. In addition to her university teaching and
administrative work, Abouzeid works in school districts, with family
literacy groups, and teaches individual children in the McGuffey
reading clinic. In this talk, Dr. Abouzeid will offer some simple
suggestions to parents and family members, based on research in
the field of reading, on things they can do to help children with
early literacy activities at home before they enter kindergarten.
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