Relatable Content

What's Happening? provides reading strategies with informational text and high-interest articles to support struggling secondary students.

Focuses on Comprehension, Not Memorization

What's Happening? enables students to build background information and skills leading them to become informed, confident readers

Logical, Time-tested Curriculum Format

The sequence of skill instruction in What’s Happening? promotes the same literacy behaviors that proficient readers use.

Ongoing Instructor Education

Support for teachers and literacy instructors includes professional development workshops with Dr. Bill McBride and Dr. Ron Klemp.

• Authors

  Meet the What's Happening? author team.

  Lawrence Gable - Program Author

  Since 1993, Mr. Gable has been the author/publisher of What’s Happening Publications. His monthly articles have covered current events around the country and around the world. They provide young and struggling older readers with current information in differentiated reading levels.

  Prior to founding What’s Happening, Mr. Gable enjoyed a 16-year teaching career. He taught German, ESL, and English in junior and senior high schools, as well as in adult education and community college. In 1989–90 he received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange Grant to teach English in Germany.

  

  Ron Klemp, Ph.D. - Program Author

  Dr. Klemp teaches at California State University, Northridge, and at Santa Monica College. He retired from the Los Angeles Unified School District after 36 years, where he coordinated literacy intervention for Grades 6 through 10. Previously, he was a reading teacher, dean of discipline, and coordinator of the Secondary Practitioner Center, a training program for middle and high school content teachers.

  Dr. Klemp has co-authored four books on secondary literacy, including Reading and the High School Student, The Readers’ Handbook, Building Literacy in Social Studies, and his recent book linking literacy and student behavior, School DayZ. He has published numerous articles on his cooperative literacy approach to organizing classes to promote literacy and behavior.

  

  Bill McBride, Ph.D. - Program Author

  Dr. McBride is a former middle and high school Reading Specialist with a Masters in Reading and a Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has written and consulted on a number of school textbook series for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

  Dr. McBride is most well-known for his novel Entertaining an Elephant. In its 18th printing, the book tells the moving story of a burned-out teacher who becomes re-inspired with both his profession and his life. The sequel, Carrying a Load of Feathers, came out in 2009. Dr. McBride has also published Building Literacy in Social Studies, Power Words Vocabulary Development, and If They Can Argue Well, They Can Write Well. He presently trains teachers in content area reading methodologies, gender brain differences, and student engagement.