More information can be found on ILA’s awards and grants page. Nominations and applications for the next cycle opens in early ...

A Tool for All Classrooms Whether in general education, bilingual, or special education settings, bilingual picturebooks are not just for multilingual learners—they’re a high-impact tool for all ...

Robertson is the current chair of the ILA Research Committee. During his time on the Board, he also served on the National Recognition Commission, Global Committee, and Finance Committee. His ...

Drawing on our years of research in classrooms and our interviews with teachers and students, we designed this approach to reading assessment to put students and teachers alike front-and-center in the ...

Weakland writes that the concern around books as harmful or radically biased against the elitist status quo doesn't justify the censorship that tends to silence the already marginalized voices.

Many parents and caregivers look at their children’s math homework and say it looks nothing like the math they learned as kids. Today, students use more strategies to solve problems and focus on ...

During this project, students spent time developing essential literacy skills—reading, writing, and oral language—and using those skills as tools to build science knowledge and solve meaningful ...

On Monday, June 7, the International Literacy Association (ILA) held “Disrupting Instructional Paradigms by Embracing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy,” a webinar featuring Glendaliz Martinez Almonte ...

Humor also plays a central role in the YouTubers’ critical media literacy practices. Moments of humor defuse hatred and amplify agency to resist social injustice. Satire and parody in these videos ...

In their Literacy Now post “Engaging in Reading, Authoring, and Community Through Virtual Literacy-Casts", Devery Ward and colleagues touch on how they leveraged chat features by encouraging students ...

As the year comes to a close, reflecting back on the last 12 months is natural. For many people, 2020 was a particularly challenging year. As we at ILA look to a brighter future in 2021, we want to ...

Though today’s challenges are new and unique, book access has been an ongoing issue for too many children for too long. The central tenet in the ILA’s Children’s Rights to Read declares both that ...