More information can be found on ILA’s awards and grants page. Nominations and applications for the next cycle opens in early ...

ILA’s Literacy Glossary was created to identify and define key terms relevant to literacy research and instruction. This living document provides a shared vocabulary, one that supports critical and ...

Supporting Students’ Neurodiversity and Learning Differences Knowing the most up-to-date and effective strategies for tailoring instruction, accommodations, and support for students who are ...

In this essay I will tell you the real story of Snow White; or rather, the real stories —for the Brothers Grimm published more than one version of the tale. Those versions are, as you might guess, ...

Dorothy S. Strickland, a renowned advocate of equitable literacy instruction and of improving the quality of teacher education programs and professional development, passed away earlier this week at ...

For example, the tool lists specific word identification strategies that research suggests are good for students to use—such as chunking a word or trying an alternate vowel sound. It does not list ...

For a long time, comic books and graphic novels were geared toward children on the basis that, because they have pictures, they’re not “real books.” As a child, I wasn’t allowed to read comics for ...

I’ve been asked this question about Round Robin Reading many times and in multiple forms. It is usually accompanied by statements such as: “But my students really like it” or “It helps me cover ...

Over the past few years, frameworks such as TPACK and SAMR have helped teacher professionals think about the intersections of knowledge they need to acquire to better integrate technology into ...

Every child needs a chance to read independently in school. In the frenzy to prepare students for large-scale assessments, some schools are limiting independent reading (IR) time. Yet the Common Core ...

Reading online about divisive and complicated topics can and should be central to the English language arts classroom. At least, that is what we have been advocating for the past four years, as we ...