Sawubona (“I see you”), Jerrie: Continuing the Legacy of the African American Read-In
The following post was written by Stephanie Power-Carter, Indiana University and David E. Kirkland, NYU. Find out how to participate in …
Get Ready for World Read Aloud Day!
World Read Aloud Day, recognized on February 1, motivates children, teens, and adults to celebrate the power of words. This …
Greetings from the Secondary Section Steering Committee!
Greetings from the Secondary Section Steering Committee! My name is Tiffany Rehbein, and I am honored to serve as your …
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 …