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LITERACY TODAY
September/October 2015
Volume 33, Issue 2
The Future
of Literacy
Meet the rising leaders who
UNDER
are transforming literacy
education
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Find out the results of our
20th annual What's Hot survey
Learn six easy ways to create
a literacy strong classroom
“Rev up” your daily
COMMON CORE
LESSONS New for
2015!
You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in
hundreds of places—but none of them will do
for students what the ones in these books do.
What's the magic bullet? Potent integration.
In these much-anticipated companion books to the popular
Common Core Companion series, Leslie Blauman and
Janiel Wagstaff each provide 50+ connected lessons that
bring a Monday-through-Friday clarity to integrated reading
and writing instruction.
Grades K–2: List Price: $34.95,
LITERACY TODAY September/October 2015 Volume 33,
“Rev up” your daily COMMON CORE LESSONS New
ontents 20 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS 6
EDITOR'S NOTE Colleen Patrice Clark Managing Edit
P e h T t r w o i L r of r a e P e o
LIT BITS Conference Wrap-Up Couldn't meet us i
Seen at ILA 2015 Shaquille O'Neal along with thre
OUR VIEW Yesly Contreras (ycontreras@reading.org)
On average, 42,000 people per
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Stephen G. Peters (Petersgrou
Plan for Success With ILA Bridges How do ILA Bri
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Peter Freebody (peter.freebod
Gray's work emphasized the applica
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Jack Cassidy (dr.jackcassidy@
What's Hot in Literacy Survey Topics What's H
THIS YEAR'S PARTICIPANTS Richard Allington
closely connected to the elephant in the classroo
“To develop college and career readiness, I sugge
Inspire Creativity and Literacy Brilliantl
TWO TAKES Mary Cotillo (marymoo@gmail.com), an
A look at how to approach introducing controversi
COVER STORY THE NEW GENERATION Celebratin
Oluwaseun “Seun” Aina, 27 Founder/CEO, Magical Bo
Nic Borg, 27 Cofounder, Edmodo | CALIFORNIA Edmo
Program, and two years later, founded the Five St
Jennifer Estrada, 28 Director of the HerStory Ini
Inés Guillorme, 25 English Teacher, Decroly Scho
Emma and Julia Mogus, 16 and 18 Cofounders, Books
during rehearsal. Two years later, that student h
Bhawana Shrestha, 25 English Teacher, Jyotidaya C
has enabled them to interact through learning opp
“As a first-generation college studen
ILA THANKS YOU! It's because of your nominations
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Lori Oczkus is a literacy
her eyes as she “hunts” around the cover to find
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Amy Spiker (aspiker@uwyo.e
with writing. We wanted to find ways to address s
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Roberta Linder (rlinder@wi
You might remember picture books that
A framework for analysis One framework for guidin
Motivate Learners with Resources by Laura Robb
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Laura Robb (laurarobb@comc
Let us discuss books in small groups. Use podcast
ILA NETWORK Olivia Duke (oduke@reading.org) is an
Holy Family University The Beta Epsilon chapter a
FROM EXCEPTIONAL University of Northern Iowa In
© 2015 ISBN 978-0-87207-392-0 Nonmembers: $29.95
IMPACT GLOBAL Jennifer L. Nelson (Jennifer@jen
The LIFE project was born after a fir
moved forward in such an incredibly positive, ins
SEPTEMBER 2015 2–5 9th Pan African Reading For Al
MEMBER membership update SPOTLIGHT
in your words WhatDoYouLOOKFORWARD to Most When
MEMBER reflections SPOTLIGHT LiteracyISTHEANSWER
STEP BACK SO READERS New for CAN STEP FORWARD 201