The mission of the Missouri Literacy Association is to empower educators, ensure equity, inspire students & encourage leaders with the equitable resources they need to make literacy accessible for all in our diverse community.
The purpose of the Missouri Literacy Association is to improve the quality of reading instruction at all level, to support the efforts and activities of local councils in Missouri, and to coordinate literacy development efforts with other organizations.
Our journal, The Missouri Reader, is a scholarly journal published quarterly as a resource for our members. The articles are written by nationally recognized authors, literacy researchers and instructional leaders as well as by local literacy researchers, veteran classroom teachers, beginning classroom teachers and graduate students.