Mark Mullen Named Acting Executive Director

The Board of Directors of the International Reading Association has announced the selection of Mark Mullen as the Acting Executive Director. Mullen has been the Deputy Executive Director for the past 7 years. Previously he served as a superintendent, principal, and teacher. Mullen replaces William Harvey, who is leaving the Association to pursue other interests.

The International Reading Association, the leading professional organization for reading educators, is dedicated to providing continuing and ongoing professional development for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in order to advance the quality of reading instruction and research worldwide. The Association works toward this goal through more than 65,000 members in 100 countries. A network of more than 1,200 councils and more than 50 national affiliates forms the working foundation of the Association.

This month on IRA Radio...

Literacy 2.0: How Dolly Parton is Changing the Lives of Half a Million Kids.

Dolly Parton is promoting literacy and changing the life of over a over a half million kids. Her Imagination Library project gives a book a month to over 600,000 children from zero until their fifth birthday. Beginning in Tennessee, the program now reaches over 1,200 communities in the US, Canada and the UK. Tune in and discover how this innovative program is promoting literacy in the 21st century. Listen now!

Reading Research Quarterly:
July/August/September 2010 Vol 45, No 3

ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE INCLUDE:

• Oral Reading Fluency Assessment: Issues of Construct, Criterion, and Consequential Validity
• English–Language Learners' Reading Achievement: Dialectical Relationships Between Policy and Practices in Meaning–Making Opportunities
• Vocabulary Practices in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Classrooms

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The Reading Teacher, May 2010 Vol 63, No 8

ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE INCLUDE:

• What Teachers Can Do to Promote Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development: Strategies From an Effective Language and Literacy Professional Development Coaching Model
• Generous Reading: Seeing Students Through Their Writing
• Literacy Trends and Issues: A Look at the Five Pillars and the Cement That Supports Them

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Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,
May 2010 Vol 53, No 7

ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE INCLUDE:

• The Literacy Needs of Adolescents in Their Own Words
• Erika’s Stories: Literacy Solutions for a Failing Middle School Student
• A Lesson Cycle for Teaching Expository Reading and Writing

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