José A. Montelongo: Conference Presentations

International Conference Presentations

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)International Conference, (August, 2008) Minneapolis, MN.
"Web-based Information Literacy Modules for Summarizing and Evaluating Quantitative Studies"
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.

National Conference Presentations

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) (Nov., 2008) Houston, TX
"Web-based Modules to Facilitate Summarization and Evaluation of Research" [poster session]
National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) (Nov., 2008) San Antonio, TX.
"Using Text Guides to Teach Reading Skills and Summarization in ESL Classrooms"
American Educational Research Association (AERA) (March 24-28, 2008)
"Spanish-English Cognates and Levels of Cognatedness"
National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE), (February, 2008) Tampa, FL.
"A Three-component Intervention Model for Helping ELL Students Attain Literacy for Expository Materials"
"Using Text Guides to Facilitate Reading Content Area Textbooks and Summarization"
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."
National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (NCSS), (Dec. 2, 2007) San Diego, CA.
"A Lesson Cycle for Middle School ESL Learners"
Brick and Click Libraries Symposium (Nov. 2, 2007) Maryville, Mo.
"Information Literacy: Creating modules for summarizing and evaluating quantitative studies in education and psychology."

Regional and State Conferences

California Association of Research Libraries (CARL) (March, 2008) Irvine, Ca.
"Information Literacy: Evaluating Empirical Investigations,"[poster session]
California Association of Bilingual Educators, (March, 2008) San José, CA.
"Information Literacy for High School and College Students: How to Critically Evaluate a Research Investigation"
"Facilitating Language Learning through the use of Spanish English Cognates"
"Helping Students Analyze and Synthesize Arithmetic Word Problems"
"Reading Content Area Textbooks and Writing Summaries"
"Facilitating the Reading and Writing of Expository Text with the Sentence Completion Task"
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, 2008)
Spanish-English cognates: They’re not all the same!"
New Mexico Association of Bilingual Educators (April, 2007)
"Using Spanish-English cognates to facilitate instruction for ELLs."
New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education Conference (April, 2006)
"Text guides and summarization," Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education Conference (April, 2005)
"Sentence completion task and task structures," Albuquerque, NM.
Nevada Library Association Conference (October 5, 2007) Carson City, Nev.
"Information literacy: Web-based modules to facilitate summarizing and evaluating quantitative studies in the social sciences."
Regional Conference on Excellence in Teaching and Learning (April, 2007), Fresno, CA.
"Information literacy: A web-based module to facilitate the summarization and evaluation of quantitative research studies in the social sciences."
Literacy Connections through Science Conference (April, 2005), Fresno, CA.
"Reading for Reactions."