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<br /> INFORMED CONTENT FOR LITERACY PROFESSIONALS<br /> Mrs. Alma Powell<br /> of America's<br /> Promise Alliance<br /> Addresses IRA<br /> International<br /> Literacy Day<br /> Convocation<br /> Volume 31, Number 2<br /> October/November 2013<br /> Special Issue:<br /> Implementing<br /> the CCSS<br /> Inside:<br /> Is Career Readiness a Neglected<br /> Standard?<br /> Six-Article Suite on CCSS<br /> Implementation Issues<br /> Celebrating Maryann Manning<br /> European Conference Focuses<br /> on Digital Literacy<br /> <br /> CONTENTS<br /> President's Message<br /> Demystifying the CCSS......................................................... 02<br /> From the Executive Director<br /> Education Leadership and Policy ....................................... 04<br /> Remembrance<br /> Celebrating Maryann Manning .......................................... 06<br /> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=1"> INFORMED CONTENT FOR LITERACY PROFESSIONALS </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=2"> </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=3"> CONTENTS President's Message Demystifying the CCS</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=4"> P resident's Message The Common Core: Demystifyi</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=5"> Example Questions for Professional Reflection on R</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=6"> F rom the Executive Director Education Leadershi</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=7"> A Full Assortment of Dry-Erase Crayons & Markers </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=8"> R EMEMBRANCE Celebrating Maryann Manning IRA Pre</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=9"> </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=10"> L iteracy Leadership Is Career Readiness a Negl</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=11"> That last area tends to get short shrift </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=12"> together, but we're not saying, `You're lett</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=13"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP IRA Partners with Delaware </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=14"> C ORE STANDARDS Six Recommendations for </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=15"> texts closely, grappling with the text as the CCS</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=16"> C ORE STANDARDS Multiple Ways to Learn Words: T</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=17"> (www.smarterbalanced.org) also rely heavily on th</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=18"> C ORE STANDARDS What's the Secret to Successful </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=19"> The third key to close reading involve</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=20"> C ORE STANDARDS For the CCSS Assessments and Bey</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=21"> Table 1 gives information on the length o</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=22"> C ORE STANDARDS Hoping to Engage Students in the</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=23"> 20 Magic School Bus titles are available t</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=24"> C ORE STANDARDS Developing the Critical Skills </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=25"> asked to read closely and then go back to the tex</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=26"> Figure 1 : PARCC Sample Vocabulary Task </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=27"> C HILDREN'S LITERATURE Selecting Quality Nonficti</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=28"> Chin, J. (2012). Island: A story of the Galápagos</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=29"> Continued from page 25 texts using the CCSS guid</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=30"> L EGISLATION & POLICY CCSS Dominate Education Ag</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=31"> b</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=32"> Criticism of the CCSS The Downside o</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=33"> Text Complexity taken 5 steps further! </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=34"> A NNUAL CONFERENCE A Time to Learn, A Place to </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=35"> contribution to the Guys Read: Thriller anthology</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=36"> P UBLICATIONS New IRA Books by Altieri and Buehl</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=37"> This timely update of Classroom Strategies for </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=38"> C OUNCILS & SIGs Creating Families of Readers in</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=39"> Supporting Intrinsic Motivation Now that childr</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=40"> I NTERNATIONAL Allan Luke and Peter Freebody Re</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=41"> I NTERNATIONAL From Reading to Literacy</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=42"> I NTERNATIONAL European Conference on Reading Fo</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=43"> The Jönköping Experience American Sue Ann Sharm</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=44"> </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=45"> MEMBERSHIP Membership is Your Key to the Core: </a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=46"> C ALENDAR OF EVENTS Events of Note October 2013</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=47"> Powerful Content Connections Nurturing Readers, W</a> <a title="Reading Today October/November 2013 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/208f58a2?page=48"> </a>