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=Welcome to the site for the Graduate Program in Literacy and Cognition at St. Joseph's College.= (Please contact Dr. Claire Lenz, Director of the Graduate Program in Literacy and Cognition with your questions and comments (clenz@sjcny.edu).

==**This site is a resource for you to provide information about course offerings in the Graduate Program in Literacy and Cognition, positions in classroom teaching and in Literacy, future conferences, innovations from literacy research and much more. __The discussion area is for questions about the St. Joseph's College Graduate Program or for information about conferences and workshops on literacy.__**==

//Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. // -Maya Angelou

// "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." // // — Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!" //



"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." — Walt Disney



"It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own." — Katherine Patterson