WINTER 2024 EDITION | Page 3

Missouri Literacy Association 2024-2025

Chair.......................... Sara Valer

t

Advertising

We invite publishers and those in education related businesses to advertise in The Missouri Reader.

- Full page - $200

- Half page - $125

- One-quarter page - $75

- One-eighth page - $50

Advertising requests must be made by filling out this form, sending the digital copy of the high-resolution ad image to Dr. Nermin Vehabovic

[e-mail]

along with the appropriate payment.

Advertising deadlines:

January 1 - Spring issue

August 1 - Summer/Fall issue

Call for Reviewers

WE NEED YOU! If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts, please contact

Elizabeth Thorne Wallington, PhD

Associate Professor

Missouri Western State University

[e-mail]

All images used in this issue were supplied by the author, used with permission, or used under the Creative Commons license.

Special STEM Section: Content Contribution

p. 34

BOOK REVIEWS

p. 19

Research

p. 5

RESEARCH

The Teachers Corner

Professopma; Bppl Review

p. 24

p. 16

CONTENT CONNECTIONS

David Harrison, Georgia Hurd Podcast Inteview conducted by Sam Bommarito

MORE CLASSROOM IDEAS

Strengthing Literacy Development and Content Area Growth through Student-Created Formula Poetry

by Jennifer L. Altier

Why KIds Need Poetry...

by Alicia Kershaw and Beth Gregory

This article is an explanation of why and how to use spelling inventories effectively in today’s classrooms, with strategies rooted in the Science of Reading.

-click to add text

p. 24

p. 30

p. 36

Spring Sprung

by Alysen Bayles

This article is an explanation of why and how to use spelling inventories effectively in today’s classrooms, with strategies rooted in the Science of Reading.

-click to add text

This article is an explanation of why and how to use spelling inventories effectively in today’s classrooms, with strategies rooted in the Science of Reading.

-click to add text

p. 29