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Participating Rotary clubs throughout the region run their own student writing contests, and each club can submit up to three stories for the final judging. Bookmobile rides again The idea for the bookmobile, a collaborative project of the Ellensburg Morning Rotary Club and the Central WORD IRA Council, began at the IRA 2013 Conference in San Antonio, TX, when teachers Mandi Laurent and JoAnne Duncan attended sessions on \"summer slide\" and a summer book bus program.

[...]numbers don't matter to Ripp, a fifth-grade teacher and International Reading Association member in Wisconsin. Sedley Abercrombie, an elementary school media coordinator in North Carolina, helped one fifth-grade teacher do the program last year. Julie Ramsay, a sixth-grade teacher at Rock Quarry Middle School at Tuscaloosa, will be doing the program for the fourth time in 2014.

(Simon & Schuster) Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate (Simon & Schuster) Barb Rosenstock, The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became America's Hero (Boyds Mills Press) Authors, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Sharing Teachable Moments for Reading and Writing in the Middle Grades Special Interest Group Session May 11, 11:00 a.m. Michael D. Beil, Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits (Random House) Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Kwame Alexander, The Crossover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Steve Swinburne, Sea Turtle Scientist (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Creating Teachable Moments That Increase Reading Proficiency and Engagement: Presenting Authors and Illustrators Whose Books Inform, Engage, and Inspire a Lifetime of Reading and Learning May 11, 11:00 a.m. Kirby Larson, Hattie Ever After (Random House) Frank Morrison, I Got the Rhythm (Bloomsbury) Peter Sis, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Macmillan) Eric Velasquez, A Thirst for Home: A Story of Water across the World (Bloomsbury) and The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery (Walker) Experiencing Adolescent Literature with Authors Emily Lockhart and Sarah Mlynowski Special Interest Group Session May 11, 11:00 a.m. Emily Lockhart, We Were Liars (Random House) Sarah Mlynowski, Don't Even Think About It (Random House) Young Adult Literature Luncheon May 11, 12:00 p.m. Matt de la Peña, The Living (Random House) Writers on Writing: How the Professional Process Is Much Like the Student Process...Just with More Process May 11, 1:00 p.m. Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day (HarperCollins) Neal Shusterman, The Accelerati Trilogy, Book One: Tesla's Attic (Disney-Hyperion) and Antsy Does Time (Penguin) Alan Sitomer, Caged Warrior (Disney- Hyperion) \"I Can See Myself!\" Identity and Diversity Author Panel May 12, 11:00 a.m. Deborah Ellis, Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids (Groundwood) Paula Freedman, My Basmati Bat Mitzvah (Abrams) Sharon Robinson, Under the Same Sun (Scholastic) Book and Author Luncheon May 12, 12:00 p.m. Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House and Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series (Random House) A Plethora of Possibilities: Connecting Graphic Novels to the Common Core State Standards May 12, 1:00 p.m. Gene Yang, Boxers & Saints (Macmillan) In addition to the ones listed here, other authors may be appearing as part of other conference sessions.

DESPITE almost universal acknowledgement of the vital importance of women's literacy, education remains an elusive dream for far too many women in far too many countries of the world. Worldwide, about 950 million adults lack literacy skills-- the vast majority, women: One in three women is illiterate, as opposed to one in five men.

When Julie Friedberg of Arcadia, California, first heard the phone message saying that she had won a VIP package for IRA's 2013 Annual Convention in San Antonio- by being randomly picked form the list of early registrants-she thought it was a hoax. Friedberg said she will take back information in these key areas: * reader response * transactional theory * the importance of engagement, especially for struggling readers After experiencing her first IRA Annual Convention, does Friedberg intend to attend more? \"Yes,\" she concluded enthusiastically.

Another aspect of Fast Break for Reading was the Buckets & Books program, whereby fans who dropped offbooks at ABA games received half-price game tickets. Free Throw Shooting Contest This year's Fast Break for Reading program wound down at the IRA Annual Convention in San Antonio in April.

A middle school teacher who just made the transition to full-time writing, Messner realized that technology offered a way to bring authors and readers together at a time when school budgets make in-person author visits more and more challenging. Free 20-Minute Author Visits via Skype All of the authors on Authors Who Skype offer free 20-minute Skype visits to schools or classes that have read the author's books. Potent Motivational Aid Colby Sharp, a fourth-grade teacher at Minges Brook Elementary School in Battle Creek, Michigan, agrees.

Feedback from readers suggested that many wanted a smaller, easier-to-handle newspaper, and the move to a smaller tabloid size also saves both paper and money. Since the late 1970s, Reading Today has evolved from a four-page, 8½ × 11 newsletter to a full-size, full-color newspaper, with a number of intermediate steps along the way.