Each year, the Orange County Reading Association (OCRA) proudly recognizes one deserving classroom teacher, school principal, literacy coach or other educator in Orange County who exemplifies OCRA’s spirit of outstanding leadership in literacy. Do you have an outstanding colleague to nominate? Would you like to nominate yourself? Fill out the nomination form by Sunday, October 18, 202...

OCRA has a YouTube channel! Enjoy highlights from past conferences, professional workshops and community events. We also have several videos especially for educators with literacy strategies for students in kindergarten through college. Subscribe today! Click here to visitour channel!

Run out of things to watch on Netflix? Check out our YouTube Channel and enter the May giveaway! To win, subscribe to ocreading on YouTube, then leave a comment on one of our videos using the hashtag, #maygiveaway. Two lucky winners with receive a $25 gift card of their choice.

Calling all OCRA followers!! For the month of April, OCRA wants to give YOU Amazon gift cards!  Tag anyone who doesn't already follow OCRA in THIS POST to be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card!  You can tag up to ten people for a total of ten entries into the drawing. If the person you tag starts to follow OCRA, they too will be entered into the drawing! (Then they can tag up to ...

See photos from A Closer Look at Reader's Workshop & access presenter powerpoints! Thank you to all new and veteran educators who attended our spring professional develop workshop, A Closer Look at Reading Workshop. We appreciate your engagement, enthusiasm and discussion centered on this important work. If you missed a session or did not get to attend, feel free to access the presente...