Launa Hall’s travels take her to Crete, Greece, where she discovers the impact that the island’s deep tradition of writing and performing poetry has on developing readers.
Launa Hall’s travels take her to Italy, land of transparent orthography, where she discovers how real-world learning opportunities and strong, long-term relationships between teachers and students benefit students of all ages.
Launa Hall’s travels take her to Morocco, a multilingual country that has a complicated language history. With one language used in formal education and others used in daily communication, Launa learns about the challenges and gifts multilingualism presents to developing readers.
Talking with parents and educators in Seoul, Launa Hall discovers at the elementary level a surprising balance of rigor, creativity, joy, and cultural pride in literacy in a country known for its high academic achievement.
In the cloud-wrapped mountains of northern Vietnam, Launa Hall explores how young Hmong children are learning to read in Vietnamese — and how early literacy is shaping futures in this remote village.
