What’s Your Lexile Score?
Levelized reading programs have been around since dirt but considering what we know today about reading—how we read, why we …
The Summer Reading Collage: A New Approach to Relevancy
This post is written by member Brittany Collins. As disparate experiences cohere and craft a single identity, so do collages …
“Should We Censor What Teens Read?”
“NO!” responds Peter Brown Hoffmeister in his recent HuffPost blog. He took up the subject after another teacher questioned his …
Using Literature to Shatter Our Entrenched Views, Part II
Pulitzer-Prize–winning journalist Sonia Nazario was the keynote speaker at NCTE’s 2014 Annual Convention. What follows is her reflection three years …
Sneak Peek: July 2017 English Journal
This post is written by members Julie Gorlewski and David Gorlewski, editors of English Journal. The work of teaching illustrates …
READ the Map!
This post is written by member Kelly Tumy. Young adult literature has earned a place in secondary classrooms, but are …
Summer – A Book of Hope
“‘Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and …
Why Address Climate Change in the English Language Arts Classroom? Part II
This post is written by members Richard Beach and Allen Webb. This is the second of two parts. You can …
Why Address Climate Change in the English Language Arts Classroom? Part I
This post is written by members Richard Beach and Allen Webb. This is the first of two parts. Even with …
How Students Helped to Discover the Relevancy of Poetry in the 21st Century
This post is written by member Christopher Margolin. Teachers tend to teach poetry because they feel it has supposed to …