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LITERACY TODAY
July/August 2015
Volume 33, Issue 1
The Age
of Literacy
· What the changing definition
of literacy means for you
· Why all content area teachers
must be literacy educators
· A look at back to school
around the world
NEW from
Lucy Calkins
Units of Study for Teaching Reading
A WORKSHOP CURRICULUM
Grade-by-Grade, K–5
Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
“ This series builds on decades of teaching and research—in literally tens of thousands
of schools. In states across the country, this curriculum has already given young people
extraordinary power, not only as readers, but also as thinkers. When young people are
explicitly taught the skills and strategies of proficient reading and are invited to live as richly
literate people do, carrying books everywhere, b
LITERACY TODAY July/August 2015 Volume 33, Issue
NEW from Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teachi
ontents 18 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS 6
EDITOR'S NOTE
BUILD UP YOUR PRACTICE WITH ILA E-SSENTIALS
LIT BITS Oh, the Places We'll Go… Donna Hutton,
You Are the Solution Global literacy statistics p
OUR VIEW Diane Barone (barone@unr.edu) is the 20
Foundational literacy knowledge When I read Becky
HOW WE DEFINE LITERACY We asked ILA staffers to sh
NEW How to Flip Lessons, Blend in Tec
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Karen N. Nemeth (karen@ langu
Why bilingual educators? Early literacy developme
LEADERSHIP LITERACY Melissa Brooks-Yip (Washte
their own domains, to collaboratively talk about
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Martha “Jan” Mickler (mjmickl
Because teachers may not have a share
TWO TAKES Stephanie Brant (stephanie_d_brant@
HOMEWORK? As we start planning for back-to-school
COVER STORY TEACHING IN THE #AgeOfLiteracy
y ears ago, the definition of
COVER STORY literacy focused on reading withi
For today's educators, that could me
CLASSROOM THE ENGAGING Jacqueline Witter-Easle
I now realize that one way to increase
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Sheri McGuinn (smcguinn@ya
In three months, we managed to put to
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Kevin Doyle (kevindoyle68@
breakthrough came on my first day of teaching Aug
THE ILA NETWORK Harriet Juricich (harriet.juricic
Considering the specific language and
GLOBAL IMPACT Gabriela Lee (gabriela.dans.lee@gma
The Philippines boasts a consistent f
positions, 25–34-year-olds come in a close second
IMPACT GLOBAL Eileen Smith Dallabrida (smithre
IN AUSTRALIA, the new school year commences in th
IN RUSSIA, children bring flowers to school on th
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