If You Find Yourself with Time on Your Hands—WRITE!
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing note, Writing grows out of many different purposes [including] developing social networks; engaging …
The Desire for Literacy 6: Guinea Pigs
This is the sixth of eight excerpts we are offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the …
Tis the Season to Use ReadWriteThink Interactive Tools and Mobile Apps!
The last days of 2015 are here, and it’s likely that your days in the classroom for this are even fewer! …
Screenwriting as an ELA Exercise
Our November 2015 English Journal offers the article “Lights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
The Desire for Literacy 5: Just Because You Can’t Read
This is the fifth of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …
Student-led Inquiry
Learners with agency can “intentionally make things happen by [their] actions,” and “agency enables people to play a part in …
A New Kind of Parent-Child Bonding—Homework Help
The following essay by NCTE Vice President Jocelyn Chadwick was originally published on the Parent Toolkit produced by NBC News …
The Singular “They” — When Pronouns Get Personal
Here’s a grammar grappler: Each student should keep ____ eyes on ____ own paper. his her his or her his/her …
“And When I Issued the Books, the Students Applauded”
Two years ago in Watauga County, North Carolina, Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits was challenged for “sexual excerpts” and pulled …
The Interactive Read-Aloud as Responsive Teaching
In the October Talking Points, Laura May and Gary Bingham encourage elementary teachers to use interactive read-alouds. What makes interactive …