Promoting the Pleasures of Reading: Why It Matters to Kids and to Country
This post is written by member Jeffrey Wilhelm. Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why …
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 …
Save Reading, Save the Country
This post is written by member Julia Franks. One of my students, a high school senior on his way to …
Teaching News Bias without Being Biased
This is a guest post by Katelynn Giordano. For language arts teachers, the general public’s growing inability to critically analyze …
What Happened in Your State This May?
This past month, seven policy analysts published reports about what occurred in the following states: Arkansas, Idaho, New York, New Mexico, …
Giving Students a Place to Choose
No two ways about it—students need access to books. And to be the best readers, they need to choose the …
Reading List for Summer in Participatory Citizenship
The following post was written by Pam Allyn and is part of an ongoing monthly series from the NCTE Standing …
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 …
Of Choice and Challenge and Superheroes
Shana Karnes writes about choice and challenge in her blog on the WVCTE affiliate’s blog site. Shana refers to …