Today is National Grandparents Day
National Grandparents Day, first proposed in 1970, was officially proclaimed in 1978. This holiday occurs the first Sunday after Labor …
September is Library Card Sign-up Month!
A library card is a passport. It permits its owner to travel to other places and times through the pages …
“Great Moon Hoax”
On this day in 1835, the first in a series of six articles was published in The Sun, a New York …
Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack!
So much of my summer is spent at the ball field or watching baseball games on TV. How about you? …
Music and Literacy
Later this week sees the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, a music festival in 1969, which drew an audience of over …
Wrapping Up: NCTE Reads Week Four
This post was written by NCTE member Vikki Orepitan. I think this week has been my favorite! The conversations in …
Math in the Literacy Classroom
John Venn. the notable English logician, philosopher, mathematician, and most notably the creator of the Venn Diagram, was born on this …
A Look Back at NCTE Reads, Week 3
This post was written by NCTE member Vikki Orepitan. The third week of NCTE Reads focused on Chapters 5 and …
Harry Potter’s Birthday
It’s a double birthday! J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, in Bristol, England. From the stories that Rowling tells …