LITERACY TODAY | January/February 2017 | literacyworldwide.org
ILA’s Guam Council welcomed
Notre Dame High School’s
National Honor Society at
a recent meeting. Students
assisted with set-up of the book
display, book sales, and door
prizes. Pictured are the students
along with their advisor, Kay
Artero, Council President
Matilda N. Rivera, and board
member Lea Calvo.
Did You
Hear?
A new reading law was
approved by United
Arab Emirates President
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed
Al Nahyan that includes
initiatives to distribute
books for newborn
babies, designate
dedicated reading
time for government
employees, and make
books tax exempt—all
to instill daily reading
habits.
What we’re reading
Looking for a new book? Pick up one of these titles that
this month’s Literacy Today contributors are currently
reading.
Inside Information
by Nell Duke (Scholastic/IRA)
—Sarah M. Lupo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander (The New Press)
—Jacqueline Stallworth
Struggling Readers: Engaging and
Teaching in Grades 3–8 by Maureen
McLaughlin and Timothy V. Rasinski (ILA)
—Joseph Sanacore
Homecoming
by Michael Morpurgo
(Walker) —Flora Majdalawi
The Book of Unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez (Vintage)
—Lori Helman
House Arrest
by K.A. Holt (Chronicle)
—Brian Cook
H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
—Leandra Elion
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon)
—Ryan B. Jackson
Visible Learning for Mathematics
by John Hattie, Douglas Fisher, and
Nancy Frey (Corwin)
—Beryl Bailey