Executive Committee
Missouri State Council-IRA 2015-2016
President........................Tamara Rhomberg
Vice President......................................Open
Secretary................................Mollie Bolton
Director of Membership
Development ........................Diana Houlle
Treasurer........................Betty Porter Walls
Legislative Chair......Mary Eileen Rufkahr
Historian...................................Steve Baybo
Past President........................Diana Houlle
The Missouri Reader Co-Editors..................
Julie Bryant
Jennifer Fox
Website Coordinator.........Glenda Nugent
State Coordinator...............Glenda Nugent
Zone Coordinators
Big Springs Zone............Winnie McKinley
Lake Ozarks Zone..........Carol Perry Davis
St. Louis Zone..........................Sarah Valter
Pony Express Zone..................Cindy Mires
& Pat New
Kansas City Zone......................Jessica Cox
Mark Twain Zone.................................Open
Ozark Mountain Zone............Sarah Logan
River Heritage Zone...........................Open
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Resourceful Research
The Power of Freewriting in Literacy Professional Development
Betsy McQueen with Keri Franklin
Have you wondered what would happen if you got a bunch of teachers together and encouraged them to write uninhibited? Could something possibly magical happen that could trickle into the classroom to benefit students? YES!
Alphabetical Knowledge for Teachers
Donita Shaw
In this article, learn how teachers were empowered to
transform their teaching by learning a little something
for themselves!
Introducing Study Skills in Early Literacy Instruction
Cindy Hail, Beth Hurst, Randall Wallace, Deanne Camp
Study skills are necessary to make students successful throughout their school careers. In this article, the researchers present four classroom tested strategies for helping our youngest learners tackle expository text through study skills that will help them for life.
Special Selection
Various Teacher Contributors
Look at these reviews of literacy resources to amp up your teaching!
p. 34
p. 48
p. 24
Lit Look
Using Twin Texts in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom
Carolyn Carlson
One teacher shares how she pairs examplar non-fiction with related fiction texts to strengthen litercy skills.
Katie Schieffer
No longer must teachers dread the thought of increasing rigor in the classroom. Instead, after reading this article, you will be "flipping," "questioning," and "snowballing" with students to raise the levels of rigor and fun!
p. 12
p. 42
p. 17-19
p. 28
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Content Contribution
Using the Frayer Model to Increase Vocabulary Understanding
Heather Miller
Find out how to increase science vocabulary knowledge by utilizing the Frayer model's multidimensional approach.
p. 20