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As the world's leading association of literacy professionals, IRA works diligently to define and describe what reading educators should know and be able to do. For more than two decades, IRA's professional standards have been used by policymakers, university and school administrators, teacher educators, and teachers at all levels to inform pre- and in-service teacher preparation and professional development and to guide professional practice.

"Everyday the BBC runs a feature called the Day in Pictures that displays a small collection of photographs from around the world. For years I've used this resource as a conversation starter for current events discussions in my Global Studies classes. The Day in Pictures collections are part of a much larger resource from the BBC simply called In Pictures. The In Pictures resource provides hundreds of images in a variety collections and slide shows about current events throughout the world. Some of the slide shows even include narration. All of the images include captions explaining what is happening in the picture and a little background knowledge about the event being photographed."

Not all prompts are created equal Alas, all four prompts from the list above were teacher generated one-shot exercises, culminating in disposable texts. I'm losing faith in clever prompts that culminate in clever, but what I suspect is, for students, ultimately forgettable writing.

Teacher links for Laurie Halse Anderson's book Chains

Now with a list of my favorite education sites!