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

Events hosted by ILA and the ILA Network are great ways to expand your professional development at your own pace or with other education and literacy professionals. Learn more about our exciting ...

ILA NEWS Digital Events | August 12, 2025 Using AI Webinar Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert will host a webinar on exploring AI and vocabulary instruction. ILA News | July 8, 2025 Major Upgrades Coming The ...

Position Statements and Research Briefs ILA position statements reflect ILA’s perspective on important topics within the landscape of literacy education, as well as provide guidance to those working ...

Welcome to your professional literacy learning hub! ILA’s digital events focus on timely topics and research-based instruction and are ideal for literacy educators of all types. These online events ...

In this essay I will tell you the real story of Snow White; or rather, the real stories —for the Brothers Grimm published more than one version of the tale. Those versions are, as you might guess, ...

A closer look We examined the implications of the 2020 report findings through a comprehensive analysis featured in the January/February 2020 issue of Literacy Today, ILA’s member magazine. Not a ...

ILA Choices Reading Lists Live on With New Name, New Home Choices: A Brief History In 1974, the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association) and the Children’s Book ...

How is AI changing the way we teach and learn? In this interactive webinar, speakers Ian O’Byrne, Raúl Alberto Mora, and Peggy Semingson will focus on the applications for—and implications of—bringing ...

Culturally Responsive Teaching For literacy teaching and learning to be culturally relevant and responsive, educators must begin by aligning curriculum and instruction with students’ backgrounds, life ...

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide a forum for literacy professionals to share information about specific areas and also serve as a resource for professional growth. Membership in these groups ...