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<br /> Volume 32, Number 4<br /> January/February 2015<br /> Inside:<br /> A sneak peek at the IRA to ILA transformation<br /> The critical need for literacy leadership<br /> Using technology to differentiate instruction<br /> Bringing TED talks into the classroom<br /> THET<br /> HE<br /> FUTOUF<br /> LITER<br /> FUTURE<br /> LITERACY<br /> E OF<br /> CY<br /> WELCOME TO THE<br /> OF LITERACY!<br /> Executive Director, Marcie Craig Post<br /> It is my pleasure to introduce you<br /> to ILA—the International Literacy<br /> Association.<br /> Two years of comprehensive<br /> data-gathering and analysis,<br /> intensive probing and<br /> questioning, and creative<br /> exploration and idea<br /> generation has resulted in what<br /> you are about to discover—a<br /> rebooted, rejuvenated global<br /> professional membership<br /> association for leaders in<br /> literacy education.<br /> It was a monumental task, and we<br /> are proud to now share <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=1"> Volume 32, Number 4 January/February 2015 </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=2"> THET HE FUTOUF LITER</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=3"> FUTURE LITERACY E OF CY</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=4"> WELCOME TO THE OF LITERACY! </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=5"> FUTURE our partners and our competitors. </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=6"> FUTU “We can no longer si</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=7"> RE O ACY questions, probe the responses, and </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=8"> Fisher & Frey's Answer to close and critica</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=9"> CONTENTS Editor's Note Inviting Change...........</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=10"> E DITOR'S NOTE H ow ma</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=11"> Letters to the Editor An Unintentional Theme I wa</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=12"> L IT BITS Literacy at Work Photos from IL</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=13"> And the Word of the Year Is… The American Dialect</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=14"> P resident's Message Welcoming a New Era </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=15"> Transform Your Classroom TODAY New Name. Same Re</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=16"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP From Literacy to Litera</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=17"> The literacy demands of the CCSS, of new techn</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=18"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1965 </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=19"> Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter 1995 </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=20"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Precautions w</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=21"> technology, regularly uploads on YouTube, creates</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=22"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP The Money Is Out There H</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=23"> Find funding sources There are a variety of fundi</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=24"> T WO TAKES To bot </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=25"> They appreciate the ease with which they can look</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=26"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM How to Speak in Googl</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=27"> friends. Open up Google's bag of tricks for stude</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=28"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM An Evolving Role The jo</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=29"> A sample of a student's digital story using PowTo</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=30"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Reading </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=31"> 1. Perceptual dimensions of the text. Exam</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=32"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Providing a Connection </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=33"> This talk is easy to bring into the room beca</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=34"> Sculptor Janet Echelman Photo courtesy of TED/Jam</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=35"> ILA journals. New look. Same transformative conte</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=36"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Edutainment</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=37"> E nvision this fourth-grade miniles- </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=38"> turns any photo into a vocabulary learn- au</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=39"> </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=40"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Colors, Lines, and Shape</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=41"> © 2014 ISBN 978-0-87207-353-1 Nonmembers: $29.95 </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=42"> C HILDREN'S LITERATURE Openin</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=43"> get them to rethink children's literature and the</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=44"> C HILDREN'S LITERATURE Creating Lifelong Reader</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=45"> the students' interest significantly wanes and co</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=46"> A NNUAL CONFERENCE Funding Outside the Box If d</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=47"> attend conferences, enhance their professional kn</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=48"> C OUNCILS & SIGs A Cause for Collaboration How </a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=49"> have been getting to work on implementa- tion. Ga</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=50"> I NTERNATIONAL Teaching th</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=51"> Model (DTM). Following the model, teachers learne</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=52"> program that provides video content by mobile pho</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=53"> February 2015 4–7 Colorado Council International</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=54"> M EMBER SPOTLIGHT News & Notes Career accomplis</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=55"> M EMBER SPOTLIGHT In Your Words Top Tech Tool</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=56"> M EMBER SPOTLIGHT ILA Reflections Meeting My P</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=57"> ILA 2015 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITS St. Louis, Missour</a> <a title="Reading Today Jan/Feb 2015 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/388e5822?page=58"> EARLY INTERVENTION ENSURES EARLY SUCCESS. </a>