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<br /> LITERACY TODAY<br /> July/August 2015<br /> Volume 33, Issue 1<br /> The Age<br /> of Literacy<br /> · What the changing definition<br /> of literacy means for you<br /> · Why all content area teachers<br /> must be literacy educators<br /> · A look at back to school<br /> around the world<br /> NEW from<br /> Lucy Calkins<br /> Units of Study for Teaching Reading<br /> A WORKSHOP CURRICULUM<br /> Grade-by-Grade, K–5<br /> Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project<br /> “ This series builds on decades of teaching and research—in literally tens of thousands<br /> of schools. In states across the country, this curriculum has already given young people<br /> extraordinary power, not only as readers, but also as thinkers. When young people are<br /> explicitly taught the skills and strategies of proficient reading and are invited to live as richly<br /> literate people do, carrying books everywhere, b<a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=1"> LITERACY TODAY July/August 2015 Volume 33, Issue</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=2"> NEW from Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teachi</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=3"> ontents 18 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS 6 </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=4"> EDITOR'S NOTE </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=5"> BUILD UP YOUR PRACTICE WITH ILA E-SSENTIALS </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=6"> LIT BITS Oh, the Places We'll Go… Donna Hutton,</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=7"> You Are the Solution Global literacy statistics p</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=8"> OUR VIEW Diane Barone (barone@unr.edu) is the 20</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=9"> Foundational literacy knowledge When I read Becky</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=10"> HOW WE DEFINE LITERACY We asked ILA staffers to sh</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=11"> NEW How to Flip Lessons, Blend in Tec</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=12"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Karen N. Nemeth (karen@ langu</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=13"> Why bilingual educators? Early literacy developme</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=14"> LEADERSHIP LITERACY Melissa Brooks-Yip (Washte</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=15"> their own domains, to collaboratively talk about </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=16"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Martha “Jan” Mickler (mjmickl</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=17"> Because teachers may not have a share</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=18"> TWO TAKES Stephanie Brant (stephanie_d_brant@ </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=19"> HOMEWORK? As we start planning for back-to-school</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=20"> COVER STORY TEACHING IN THE #AgeOfLiteracy</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=21"> y ears ago, the definition of </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=22"> COVER STORY literacy focused on reading withi</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=23"> For today's educators, that could me</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=24"> </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=25"> </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=26"> CLASSROOM THE ENGAGING Jacqueline Witter-Easle</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=27"> I now realize that one way to increase</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=28"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Sheri McGuinn (smcguinn@ya</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=29"> In three months, we managed to put to</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=30"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Kevin Doyle (kevindoyle68@</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=31"> breakthrough came on my first day of teaching Aug</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=32"> THE ILA NETWORK Harriet Juricich (harriet.juricic</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=33"> Considering the specific language and</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=34"> GLOBAL IMPACT Gabriela Lee (gabriela.dans.lee@gma</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=35"> The Philippines boasts a consistent f</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=36"> positions, 25–34-year-olds come in a close second</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=37"> </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=38"> IMPACT GLOBAL Eileen Smith Dallabrida (smithre</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=39"> IN AUSTRALIA, the new school year commences in th</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=40"> IN RUSSIA, children bring flowers to school on th</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=41"> © 2015 ISBN 978-0-87207-385-2 Nonmembers: $29.95 </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=42"> EVENTS JULY 2015 3–6 Australian Association f</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=43"> </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=44"> MEMBER news & notes SPOTLIGHT ILA MEMBER ACCOM</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=45"> in your words A Broader FOCUS Why is it import</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=46"> MEMBER reflections SPOTLIGHT RECOGNIZING You</a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=47"> P e h T t r w o i L r of r a e P e o </a> <a title="Literacy Today July/Aug 2015 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6de113e2?page=48"> </a>