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Articles: CARR Grant, NERA grant and CRA grant are grants to consider for limited funding. First priority is CARR- see deadline- website at http://ctreadingresearch.org/ I suggest becoming a member- it is a super organization anyway. **2012-2013 School Year- 1st Semester Award due June 15, 2012. 2nd Semester Award due November 15, 2012.** When are you guys graduating? OR
 * I. CARR Teacher Grants for Action Research**
 * CARR GRANT Below**
 * [|2012 WIRTH-SANTORO SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION-July Deadline]**

NEW ENGLAND READING ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES
 * II. NERA at www.nereading.org Deadline April 1 Awarded in June ( will you still be in school in spring semester? again not sure when you graduate)**

DURRELL, COOPER, AND CROSSLEY

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

UP TO $1500

WRITE TO JOANNE BELL AT joanne.hbell@gmail.com to get latest on this grant. The website is not up to date.
 * III. CONNECTICUT READING ASSOCIATION GRANTS **

1.Teachers tackle text complexity; pilot N.Y.C. program in line with elements of standards Author(s): [|Catherine Gewertz]  Source: ** //  [|Education Week]. // ** 30.24 (Mar. 16, 2011): p1. 2.Reading Teacher, April 2012, pages 457 - 459//Taking Full Advantage of Children's Literature////by Frank Serafini// //3//. Reading Teacher, February 2012, pages 289-293//Guiding Principles for Supporting New Literacies in Your Classroom////by Rachel Klein & Valerie Shinas// 4. Reading Teacher, February 2012, pages 313 - 323//Combining Traditional and New Literacie3s in a 21st Century Writing Workshop//by Jennifer Bogard & March McMackin 5. Reading Teacher, March 2012, pages 367 - 377//Envisioning New Literacies through a Lens of Teaching and Learning//by Diane Lapp, Barbara Moss, & Jennifer Rowsell 6. Reading Teacher, May 2010, pages 539 - 549//For Young Children, Pictures in Storybooks are Rarely Worth a Thousand Words//by Judith Schickedanz & Molly Collins 7. Enhancing Critical Thinking with Aesthetic, Critical, and Creative Inquiryby Nancy LampertArt Education, September 2006, 59, 5, page 46 - 50 8. //7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right Now////Text Complexity//by Elfrieda H. Hiebert (TextProject & The University of California, Santa Cruz) 9. Book: Bringing it All Together: Language and Literacy in a multilingual Classroom Marcia Brechtel (Dominie Press: New Jersey, 2001)

10. Integrating literacy and inquiry for English language learners Lindsay Guccione, //The Reading Teacher,// 9 Nov. 2011, p. 567-577 (*This is a great article!)

11. "A Squirrel Came and Pushed Earth." Popular Cultural and Scientific Ways of Thinking for ELLS Kathryn M. Ciechanowski, April 2009, p. 558-568.

12. Extending Readers Theater: A Powerful and Purposeful Match With Podcasting Shari Vasinda, Julie McLeod, //The Reading Teacher,// April 2011, p. 486-497.

13. [] Arne Duncan at National AEP Conference, May 11, 2011

14. [] Reinvesting in #|Arts Education

15. **Defining Arts Integration** By Lynne B. Silverstein and Sean Layne []

16. Arts Integration #|Survey for Teachers []

17. Southeast Center for Art Integration http://centerforartsintegration.org/articles/arts-integration/

18. What is True Art Integration? http://theinspiredclassroom.com/2010/09/what-is-true-integration-2/

19. HOT #|Schools is CT http://www.ct.gov/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=2212&q=293712

20. A+ Schools - North Carolina []

21. Book: Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp

22. Book: Best Practice: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Clasroom by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, Arthur Hyde

23. Book: Pathways to the Common Core by Lucy Calkins

24. Semiotic representations: Building complex literacy practices through the arts by Kay Cowan and Peggy Albers;Oct, 2006, The Reading Teacher, 60, 2; p 125-137

25. Acting out: Literature, drama, and connecting with history by JOHN KORNFELD, GEORGIA LEYDEN; The reading Teacher 53, 3; Nov. 2005 p.230-238.

26. Curriculum-based Readers Theatre: Setting the Stage for Reading and Retention by Rosalind M. Flynn*;The Reading Teacher
p.360–365, December-January 2004 27Reading in the Shadows: Extending Literacy Skills Through Shadow-Puppet Theater]]The Reading Teacher;Volume 59, Issue 8, May 2006, Pages: 786–795, Sharon M. Peck and Aubre J. Virkler 28. Pourquoi Tales on the Literacy Stage]]; The Reading Teacher; Volume 61, Issue 8, May 2008, Pages: 663–667, Karen K. Foster, Deb Theiss and Dawna Lisa Buchanan-Butterfield 29.Visual Representations in Second Graders' Information Book Compositions]];The Reading Teacher; Julianne M. Coleman, Linda Golson Bradley and Carol A. Donovan 30. |Comic Strips as a Text Structure for Learning to Read]]; The Reading Teacher; Volume 61, Issue 1, September 2007, Pages: 85–88, Claudia J. McVicker