Welcome to Boone-Story Reading Council!

We are a local chapter of the Iowa Reading Association that promotes literacy through teacher / community programs about reading and writing. In addition, yearly support or involvement in community projects is part of our mission. Boone-Story Reading Council meets five to six times yearly to learn more about how to share the joy and passion of reading and writing with young people. The topics bring many great ideas, discussions, and learning!

Boone-Story Reading Council sponsors a creative writing contest in which members can submit student creative writing stories or poetry. Local first place winners are celebrated in a local Young Authors event and their entries are entered into the state organization of Iowa Reading Council for the state wide contest.

Members at the local level also get a discount for the yearly Iowa Reading Conference in June. The Iowa Reading Council is affiliated with the International Literacy Association.

Iowa Reading Association is offering TWO state-wide book study courses this year. Registration for both is open into December. The courses are self-paced and require participants to have 2 or more people to meet as a discussion group throughout the course to go over the questions over each chapter of the textbook.

GH-Engaging Adolescent Readers and Writers, Course #204005 is based on the book by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle, titled 180 Days - Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. This text is geared toward high school students, but could be appropriate for all educators.

GH-The Science of Reading in a Balanced Literacy Classroom, Course #204006, is based on the text Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates. This one is for those at the elementary level.