Beale Street Talks and We Should Listen
On Sunday, as I watched, wept, and smiled through Barry Jenkins’ film rendition of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could …
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This date in history marks the inauguration of a number of U.S. Presidents. This is a good date to look …
Giving Students Opportunities with the Reader Response Notebook
This post was written by NCTE member Ted Kesler, author of The Reader Response Notebook: Teaching towards Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability (2018, …
Resisting Readers’ Identity (Re)Construction across English and Young Adult Literature Course Contexts
This post was written by NCTE members Wendy J. Glenn and Ricki Ginsberg. In our recent article in Research in …
Three’s the Charm—or Is It Four?
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory debuted in 1964 and the book and subsequent films have cultivated salivating, sweet-toothed …
What You Think Is Not Necessarily What I Need To Think
Intellectual Freedom means just that, the freedom to use our intellects to learn and think about what we want to …
Multimedia as Mentor Texts
This post was written by NCTE member Cody Miller. I’ve written previously about the power of Twitter and comedy as …
Learning to Discuss as a Pathway to Literacy Learning
This post was written by NCTE member Tom McCann. When colleagues Elizabeth Kahn, Carolyn Walter, and I had an …
A Book Is a Precious Thing
Writing in this blog about how precious books are is, as they say, preaching to the choir. We are the …
My Personal Reading Record
The highlight of my breaks and vacations has always been the chance to read—and read a lot. Growing up, I …