Keith Polette

Dr. Keith Polette

Keith is a specialist in children's literacy and the Director of the English Education program in the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. At. UTEP, he is an Associate Professor of English and teaches undergraduate courses in Children's Literature, Writing Processes of Children, Reading and Writing Nonfiction, The Dynamics of Language, and graduate courses in Methods of Teaching Children's Literature, Methods of Teaching Writing, Methods of Teaching English/Language Arts, Writing for Children, and Poetry and Personal Poetics.

Keith earned a Ph.D. in English from Saint Louis University, two Masters degrees from Idaho State University--one in English and one in Drama--and a BA in English from Central Methodist College. He is the Director of the Southwestern Children's Literature Festival and the former Director of the West Texas Writing Project (a site of the National Writing Project).

Keith is a former Language Arts/Mentor Teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also a nationally recognized literacy consultant who gives keynote addresses and conducts seminars for K-12 teachers throughout the United States and Canada.

Keith's Workshop Topics Include:

The Keys to Comprehension: Critical & Creative Reading Strategies
The "WRITE" Way: Developing Writer's Craft
The Joys of Nonfiction: Reading & Writing in the Content Areas
Building Literacy Through Oral Language, Drama and Storytelling
The Pleasures & Power of Poetry and Dynamic Vocabulary Activities
Higher Order Literacy: Super Strategies for the G/T Classroom

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