“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 …
Student Audio Recordings: Leverage for Writers
This blog post was written by NCTE members Karen Sheriff LeVan and Marissa E. King. Sleepy-eyed Thiago* rarely speaks …
A Walk on the Moon
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” With those words 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong was …
Key Aspects of Critical Literacy: An Excerpt
This is an excerpt from “Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing,” a Research and Policy column written …