The Annual Newsletter of the International Reading Association's Phonics Special Interest Group
Due May 25, 2005
Phonics Special Interest Group resentation proposals for the 51st annual IRA convention are due May 25th, 2005. The convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois in 2006. Our meeting will probably be scheduled on Thursday morning. Check the IRA website for accurate dates, closer to convention time.
Please e-mail your proposal to Phonics SIG chair, Dr. Lynn Gordon at Lynn.Gordon@csun.edu. Please put the text of your proposal in the body of the email. Do not send attachments. Mailed applications will not be accepted.
Please indicate the following:
1. Your name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation (if applicable), your home address, and phone number/s where you can be reached.
2. Title of your presentation.
3. Amount of time needed. Please indicate 10-minutes, 20-minutes, or 30-minutes. (Yes, we are interested in relatively brief presentations, as the Phonics SIG will probably be given a short session again next year.)
4. Provide a summary or description of your presentation.
Presentation proposals for the International Reading Association's Phonics Special Interest Group may address any topic related to systematic, explicit phonics, including lesson plan ideas and practice activities, or related topics such as phonemic awareness, word families/onsets/rimes, decodable print, dictation, phonics assessments, phonics resources, history of phonics, back-to-phonics reading reform initiatives, “new” phonics, and phonics research.
The room will be equipped with an overhead projector.
Please note that IRA guidelines require that everyone register for the conference. As a professional, nonprofit organization, IRA is unable to reimburse program participants for travel or living expenses. Registration and additional information about the 2004 IRA convention will be made available several months prior to the conference at www.reading.org
The deadline for proposals to present at the 2004 annual meeting is May 25th, 2003. Decisions will be e-mailed to applicants on or before June 27th, 2003.
Request for Submissions
The submission deadline for next year’s Phonics Bulletin is March 1st, 2005. Please submit all documents electronically to the editors at Kendra9@mindspring.com and Lynn.Gordon@csun.edu.
The Phonics Bulletin welcomes the following:
• Brief articles, essays, and research reports related to phonics instruction, phonemic awareness, decodable print, phonics dictation, phonics assessments, phonics and reading comprehension, word families/onsets/rimes, phonics curricula and resources, reading achievement scores, history of phonics, phonics and reading reform initiatives, phonics ethnography, pedagogy, policies, and new phonics/old phonics commentaries. Articles should run from 500 to 3000 words. Include a title for the article, your full name, and institutional affiliation.
• Brief reviews of phonics books, resources, and instructional
materials. We solicit reviews in the following categories:
1. Phonics books (reference books &
books for teachers.)
2. Commercial reading programs
3. Instructional phonics materials
(including manipulatives, toys,
and games)
4. Decodable books/readers/series
5. Reading methodology college
textbooks
6. Videos (for students or teachers)
7. Phonics software
8. Websites (only informational, non-
commercial websites with a focus
on phonics)
9. Online articles about phonics
Word limit for reviews is 100 words (for categories 1 - 7) and 25 words for website reviews or online article reviews (categories 8 and 9).
Please follow the following format for reviews (in categories 1-7):
Line 1: Identify the name or title of the book or product.
Line 2: Provide the ISBN number if this is a book.
Line 3: Provide name of publisher (or distributor) and year of publication.
Line 4: Provide the publisher's (or distributor's) contact website, if
available.
Line 5+: Provide a 100-word description and review highlighting features,
utility, price, limitations, etc. (Note: if the item is an instructional toy, game, or manipulative for teaching reading, indicate whether the item is appropriate for whole class, small group, or one-on-one instruction.)
Next line: Indicate price.
Next line: How many stars (0 to 5)?
Next line: Reviewed by: (your name)