Friday, December 16, 2011

Hot Topics in Literacy Education for 2012

The International Reading Association's 2012 survey of 25 leading literacy scholars and researchers revealed the following "hot" topics in literacy education:

HOT
new literacies/ digital literacies
adolescent literacy
college and career readiness
Common Core standards
comprehension
high–stakes assessment
informational/non-fiction texts
response to intervention (RTI)

SOMEWHAT HOT
early intervention
English as a second language/English–language learners
political/policy influences on literacy
struggling/striving readers (grade 4 and above)
vocabulary/word meaning

NOT HOT
phonics
phonemic awareness
fluency

Finally, there's one topic that literacy experts strongly agreed that:

SHOULD BE HOT BUT IS NOT
Writing

(Cassidy & Loveless, 2011, Reading Today http://www.reading.org/General/Default.aspx)