The April/May/June 2025 issue of Literacy Today, ILA’s member magazine, underscores the importance of representation in children’s picturebooks. Our guest editor for this edition, Angie Zapata, is an ...

Fairytales have always been part of the American classroom. These stories not only foster cultural awareness, but they can also be a tool to prepare preservice teachers to create inclusive classrooms ...

What does it really mean to teach decoding? In this replayed session, Julia B. Lindsey unpacks how to teach decoding purposefully and systematically — from phonemic awareness to decoding of both ...

Today, I find myself reflecting on Jodi Picoult’s bestselling novel Nineteen Minutes, a harrowing account of the moments leading up to a school shooting. It was among the top books banned during the U ...

ILA position statements reflect ILA’s perspective on important topics within the landscape of literacy education, as well as provide guidance to those working in and on behalf of the field. The ILA ...

Welcome to your professional literacy learning hub! ILA’s digital events focus on timely topics and research-based instruction and are ideal for literacy educators of all types. These online events ...

The ILA 2020 What’s Hot in Literacy Report goes beyond a ranked list of trending topics to offer a deeper look at what literacy professionals think about the issues most critical to the future of ...

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 ...

In 1974, the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) launched Children’s Choices: an annotated list of high-quality books ...

Tired of the using the same old graphic organizers? Why not shake things up a bit, and get your students out of their seats and into Kinesthetic Word Webs? Kinesthetic Word Webs energize students; ...

The Children’s Rights to Read initiative, founded on 10 fundamental rights every child deserves, was developed to ensure that every child, everywhere, has access to the education, opportunities, and ...

ILA Resource Collections offer evidence-based, practitioner-friendly content carefully curated from recorded sessions, peer-reviewed journal articles, magazine features, and research-based ...