Creativity is a skill that enriches all the other learning, discovery, and growth children experience in their school careers. For the fifth straight year, Crayola will bring Creativity Week to ...

As ILA continues to grow and expand globally, the selection of its governance leaders remains critical to the organization's success and future sustainability. Board service requires a serious but ...

Research presented by the National Center for Education Statistics has proven that family engagement is one of the most important factors of literacy development, and that children enter kindergarten ...

Every year, the International Literacy Association (ILA) recognizes emerging voices in children’s and young adult literature through the Book Awards program. Winners are selected by a committee of ILA ...

During a hands-on, project-based science lesson, a group of third graders in Michigan excitedly worked on creating their own garden to grow food for their community. Along the way, they learned about ...

In many classrooms we visit, “sight words” receive a very different kind of instruction than other words, taught primarily as an exercise in visual memorization. In this post, we explain why sight ...

Listening to students read aloud is an essential practice for any primary-grade teacher. It is no less essential than a swimming coach watching children swim or a piano teacher listening to a child ...

In 2006, a survey found that while only 24% of Americans could name two Supreme Court Justices, 77% could name two of Snow White’s dwarves. I find that disturbing. Not because the Supreme Court is ...

According to Christopher Ferguson, a professor in the Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice at Texas A&M, a technopanic is a “moral panic that centers around societal fears ...

Think about the students you have who you think are not fluent readers. Chances are these are students who, when reading orally, read in an excessively slow word-by-word manner. Fluency certainly is a ...

Graham, S., and Hebert, M. A. (2010). Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education. “The ...