Is Reading Comprehension at Risk?
There is reason for concern that standardized testing may be diminishing the development of reading comprehension. In this segment we discus...
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Literacy 2.0: The New Frontier of Literacy in the Digital Age
The International Reading Association and BAM Radio Network have partnered to bring you Literacy 2.0 on IRA Radio. Each month the program brings you the latest insights from the new frontier...
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12 episodesWhat's Really Behind the Literacy Gap?
The gap in reading skills between various ethnic, racial and economic groups persists. In fact large numbers of American children have serio...
Rethinking Phonics for the 21st Century
Phonics has been a controversial practice in the educational field for decades and opinion about the appropriate role of phonics has evolved...
Understanding Response to Intervention
Response to intervention (RTI) is a strategy to help educators identify students with learning disabilities as early as possible and interve...
New Standards for Reading Professionals What's New, Why it Matters
Three years of effort has produced IRA's revised Standards for Reading Professionals. The first update since 2003, the document integrates t...
Inside Dolly Parton's Literacy Project
Dolly Parton's Literacy initiative is called the Imagination Library project. The program gives a book a month to over 600,000 children from...
A Strategic Plan for Creating Strategic Readers
Our guest shares insights on the process of getting young children to embrace reading as part of a life time strategy for achieving their li...
Why Boys Lag Girls In Reading- How To Close The Gap?
There is overwhelming evidence of a gender gap between boys and girls in reading. This is an accelerating international phenomenon. Our gues...
Next Practices in Preparing Very Young Children for Literacy
It's a new world out there requiring some new skills as well as many of the tried and tested fundamentals for developing literacy. In this s...
Literacy 2.0: Rethinking Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Digital Age
Peter Johnston makes a compelling case for the notion that the world has so fundamentally changed that the meaning of literacy has to be red...
The Critical Link Between Literacy 2.0 and Excellence in Science
Dr. JoAnne Deshon's creative application of basic and new literacy skills won her a Presidential award. In this segment Dr. Deshon underscor...
Closing the Literacy Achievement Gap Through Culturally Responsive Instruction
Increasingly, teachers today are working with children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Classrooms that do not acknowledge...