LITERACY TODAY | July/August/September 2021 | literacyworldwide.org
Digital Events Archive
The following ILA Digital Events were held in May
and June and are now available to view on demand:
ILA Children’s Literature Intensive: Creating a
Culturally Responsive Classroom Through Books, an
ILA Intensive with Saraciea J. Fennell, Cynthia Leitich
Smith, Meg Medina, and more ($99.00)
Disrupting Instructional Paradigms by Embracing
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, an ILA Webinar with
Glendaliz Martinez Almonte (free for all)
Writing Instruction That Grows Writers Through a
Focus on Feedback and Process, an ILA Webinar with
Sarah M. Zerwin (free for all)
Check out the archive at literacyworldwide.org
/digitalevents to register for these events and more.
Reading Research Quarterly’s second special issue
on the science of reading is now available online.
Journal subscribers can log in to their account
to access the full issue, but a preview, along with
more ILA resources on the science of reading, can
also be viewed at literacyworldwide.org/sor.
Jack Cassidy, professor emeritus at both Texas A&M University-Corpus
Christi and Millersville University in Pennsylvania, died on Saturday, May 22.
Cassidy was a past president of the International Reading Association (IRA,
now the International Literacy Association, ILA) from 1982 to 1983. Read
more about his contributions to the organization at literacyworldwide.org
/remembering-jack-cassidy, including his well-known What’s Hot, What’s
Not survey, and consider donating to the Texas Association for Literacy
Education (texasreaders.org/jack-cassidy-memorial). The donations
will be used to establish the Jack Cassidy Scholarship Fund for graduate
students in reading or literacy education.
A Friend and a Mentor: ILA Remembers Past President Jack Cassidy
Continuing the Conversation