<br />
Volume 32, Number 2<br />
September/October 2014<br />
INFORMED CONTENT FOR LITERACY PROFESSIONALS<br />
The What's<br />
ISSUE<br />
Inside:<br />
Literacy trends impacting<br />
instruction this year<br />
How to implement the maker movement<br />
Take back the classroom—<br />
and your happiness<br />
The power of legislative partnerships<br />
<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Editor's Note<br />
A Season for Renewal .......................................................... 02<br />
President's Message<br />
Hot Topics in Education Policy ............................................ 04<br />
From the Executive Director<br />
Remember: Change Is Good.............................................. 06<br />
Literacy Leadership<br />
What's Hot & What's Not in Literacy for 2015 ..................... 08<br />
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<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=3"> CONTENTS Editor's Note A Season for Renewal .....</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=4"> E DITOR'S NOTE T here are two </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=5"> www.reading.org </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=6"> P resident's Message Hot Topics in Education Po</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=7"> What does effective literacy instruction look lik</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=8"> F ROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR C</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=9"> of the goal and with the best of intentio</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=10"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP What's Hot ... & What's N</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=11"> </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=12"> `What's Hot' Survey Participants The following l</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=13"> States jumped on the CCSS bandwagon almost immedi</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=14"> </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=15"> </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=16"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Should We Teach Students </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=17"> Since 2010, more than 40 states have adopted En</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=18"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Community Impact This year</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=19"> English-language 2014 storybook at www.issuu.com </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=20"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP Beginning with the Basics</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=21"> program is intended for ages 3–8, the money</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=22"> L ITERACY LEADERSHIP by Andrew Gaval</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=23"> analyze the results of a high-quality study. Unfo</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=24"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM This Year's `To-Do' Lis</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=25"> read two amazing books (complete with vigorous he</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=26"> Own It! Interested in learning more about how to</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=27"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Go Inside Informational</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=28"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Break Through the Frus</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=29"> small chunks of text, which required much </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=30"> T HE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Literacy in the Making </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=31"> The maker movement encourages children to ima</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=32"> C HILDREN'S LITERATURE Making New Friends Usin</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=33"> amounts of conversation among their friends.</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=34"> Keats' historically popular books, which were wid</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=35"> Promoting Authenticity on the Page Tw</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=36"> Harvey “Smokey” Daniels & Nancy Steineke On the </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=37"> BECAUSE ALL TEACHERS ARE LEADERS Douglas Fisher</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=38"> C OUNCILS & SIGs Advocacy Works </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=39"> in Richmond for a Legislative Day to meet with G</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=40"> C OUNCILS & SIGs The Busine</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=41"> Getting down to business There was a plethora of </a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=42"> I NTERNATIONAL Rebuilding a Foundation for Lite</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=43"> in 2000 by the family of Filipino-Americans Eva a</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=44"> M EMBER SPOTLIGHT Back-to-School Benefits Septemb</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=45"> M EMBER SPOTLIGHT In Your Words W ashington Post</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=46"> E VENTS OF NOTE September 2014 6–8 2014 Asian L</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=47"> Save the Date! 60th Anniversary T</a>
<a title="Reading Today Sept/Oct 2014 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e875b339?page=48"> COLLECTIONS and GENRE SETS u</a>