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<br /> LITERACY TODAY<br /> March/April 2016<br /> Volume 33, Issue 5<br /> PD That<br /> Empowers<br /> · Hear from Kwame Alexander,<br /> Laurie Halse Anderson, and more<br /> of ILA 2016's speakers<br /> · Find top digital tools to transform<br /> student and teacher learning<br /> · Learn strategies for fostering more<br /> confident readers and writers<br /> VISIBLE LEARNING FOR LITERACY<br /> With Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & John Hattie<br /> Grades K–12: 200 pages<br /> N16301-978-1-5063-3235-2<br /> $29.95 with 20% educator discount (reg. $36.95)<br /> Renowned literacy experts Douglas Fisher and<br /> Nancy Frey work with John Hattie to apply his<br /> groundbreaking research to literacy practices.<br /> These practices are “visible” because their<br /> purpose is clear, they are implemented at the<br /> right moment in a student's learning—surface,<br /> deep, and transfer—and their effect is tangible.<br /> Doug and Nancy apply Hattie's<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=1"> LITERACY TODAY March/April 2016 Volume 33, Issue</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=2"> VISIBLE LEARNING FOR LITERACY With Douglas Fisher</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=3"> ontents 16 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS 6 </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=4"> EDITOR'S NOTE Colleen Patrice Clark Managing Edit</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=5"> </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=6"> LIT BITS Focus on grammar D</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=7"> Expanding the dyslexia conversation ILA release</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=8"> OUR VIEW Stephen Sye (ssye@reading.org) is the </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=9"> winning teacher, on the other hand, transforms li</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=10"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Stephanie Affinito (saffinito@alb</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2016 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9938852a?page=11"> 21st-century classrooms. 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