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View the highlighted Contents of the Spring 2025 IRC Journal  

In this issue, find articles and activities on A Practitioner’s Guide to the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan, and Implications for the Advanced, Accelerated, High Potential, and Gifted Literacy Learner, Part 2 by Laura Beltchenko Blended Genres: Pairing Picturebooks and Poems Across the Curriculum by William P. Bintz Checking on Low Readers’ Achievement in a Phonics-Emphasis Era by Darrell Morris Empowering Readers with Books: Uncovering the Boldness and Resilience of Females, Fact and Fiction by Kathleen A. Paciga and Melanie D. Koss Family Engagement in Literacy: Family Engagement in Reaching and Engaging Reluctant Readers at School and at Home by Laurie Elish-Piper Professional Development: Revitalizing Literacy Instruction with Student Talk by Sophie Degener, Adelfio Garcia, Dora M. Guzmán, and Ivy Sitkoski Cultivating Sustainable Futures Through Children’s Environmental Literature: Meet Diana Sudyka, Local Children’s Author/ Illustrator by Kristine M. Schutz and Rebecca Woodard The “Bates” Shop: Fishing for Primary Source Documents: Revolutionizing Historical Perspective-Taking by David Bates Authors, Books, and Beyond: A Conversation with Jasmine Warga About Where Her Ideas Come from, How She Became a Writer, and Her Hope that Readers Will Use Her Stories as Inspiration for Their Own by Amina Chaudhri