<br />
Volume 29, Number 6<br />
June/July 2012<br />
INFORMED CONTENT FOR LITERACY PROFESSIONALS<br />
An Exclusive<br />
Interview with<br />
Marcie Craig Post,<br />
IRA's New<br />
Executive Director<br />
Inside:<br />
Date Shift for IRA San Antonio Convention<br />
PISA/PIRLS Task Force Report<br />
IRA Annual Awards 2012<br />
Funding Cuts and CCSS Implementation<br />
IRA Ins ti tu te<br />
LITERACY AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE<br />
For Educators Committed to Deep and Lasting Literacy Change<br />
Join Regie Routman<br />
and her esteemed<br />
colleagues Judy Wallis,<br />
Sandra Figueroa, and<br />
Kathryn Schmitt for<br />
this enriching and<br />
enlightening event!<br />
JOIN REGIE ROUTMAN AND COLLEAGUES<br />
for two days of intimate and inte<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=1"> Volume 29, Number 6 June/July 2012 </a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=2"> IRA Ins ti tu te LITERACY AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUT</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=3"> President's Message Teachers Making a Difference</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=4"> P resident's Message IRA President Carrice Cum</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=6"> Suggested Readings for information on what oth</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=7"> Meaningful instruction for each Common Core readi</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=8"> A NNUAL CONVENTION UPDATE: Board Implements Date</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=9"> F ROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Marcie Craig Post Ta</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=15"> of reading instruction, students showed g</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=16"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Implementing RTI: A Coachin</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=18"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Professional Learning Net</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=20"> BRINGS JUSTICE TO KIDS 1ST BOOK OF SER ES I </a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=21"> T EACHING LITERACY Traditional Spelling Lists:</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=22"> forward through the stages. Research shows th</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=24"> T EACHING LITERACY Authors Who Skype: A New Way </a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=26"> A NNUAL AWARDS Research The following research </a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=28"> A NNUAL AWARDS Executive The following prestigi</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=29"> Councils The International Reading Association g</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=30"> A NNUAL AWARDS (continued) Kansas Reading Associ</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=31"> NEW FROM IRA Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=32"> R ESEARCH UPDATE Virginia Goatley</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=37"> From the National Association of Secondary School</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=38"> reading, writing, thinking, listening, and spea</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=39"> C OUNCILS & SIGs Keystone Prepares for 2012 Conf</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=42"> C HILDREN'S LITERATURE David Richardson is a fo</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=43"> Wonder by R.J. Palacio [Knopf, February 2012</a>
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<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=45"> Events of Note June 2012 22 to 23 The</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=46"> Events of Note, continued 15 to 16 Arka</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=47"> SEE YOU AT IRA'S 58TH ANNUAL CONVENTION IN SAN AN</a>
<a title="Reading Today June/July 2012 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e36c2e8?page=48"> ANNOUNCING Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy In</a>