Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading Empowering educators and creating star readers since 1947

Welcome to Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading website! For 65 years, TAIR has been serving Texas children, youth, and teachers by supporting a network of professional conferences focusing on the teaching of reading, writing, and the language arts. The original goal was to offer a reading conference within reach of every teacher in ...

The Annual East Texas TAIR conference was held on March 25, 2011 at LeTourneau University. Approximately 120 participants met to hear senior-level Teacher Education majors present breakout sessions in the morning and afternoon. Other Teacher Education majors shared two readers’ theater presentations during the main sessions. The author, Bettina Restrepo shared her books during the ...