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| Pass it on | Spotlight
on Literacy Keep Looking Upward by
Rebecca McKay Stacks of junk mail, bills, journals, and boxes welcomed me on Monday morning after the 2007 Winter Conference. I perused all the mail that had accumulated over a week and half by pulling my research journals, gardening magazines, and book orders first leaving the bills on the bottom including the one from the Private Eye Portfolio for 150 jeweler’s loupes which I hid. Having been out of professional reading materials for days, I latched onto the current Reading Today, the International Reading Association’s bimonthly newspaper. I scanned the column for upcoming conferences…um looks interesting as I think aloud about the conference entitled: Every Child Deserves a Literate Life. I hungrily zeroed in on an article that is my perennial favorite: What’s hot and what’s not in 2007 (Cassidy & Cassidy, 2007). Surrounded by a roaring fire, my favorite mug full of coffee, and good reading, I sleepily scanned the bulleted list. Hot topics: adolescent literacy, English language learners, and fluency. Not hot topics: phonemic awareness, preschool literacy, and motivation. Wait a minute! What’s wrong with this picture? Who picks this stuff anyway? Suddenly I am transformed back in time to my Friday afternoon session and I hear the talented science teacher from the carefully chosen video clip quiz a five year old: “Do you believe everything you read?” Cornerstone
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