A Book for the Ages
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you …
Students Have a Right and a Need to Read Diverse Books
We know our classrooms should be rich with diverse books, but we may need explanations to share with colleagues about …
Field Notes: Introducing the 2017-18 Lead Ambassadors
Across my twenty years of working in literacy, there has been a common factor activating significant progress: NCTE members. Content …
Join Us This Fall for Our First Mock Huck and Mock Orbis Pictus Awards!
This blog post was written by NCTE members Erika Dawes and Mary Ann Cappiello. For the first time this …
New Year, New Resources
ReadWriteThink.org keeps getting bigger and better, and as new theory and technology arise in the world of literacy education, we …
A Look at Close Reading during Children’s Book Week
The following post is excerpted from an article by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp called Learning Cycles That …
Shining Globally
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Holly Johnson, a member …
ReadWriteThink.org A-Z, Part 6
In Part 5, we took a look at ReadWriteThink.org from S to W. In this post, we will cover X, …
The First Day of School
I recently read “Don’t Waste the First Day of School“, a blog post by Catlin Tucker, where she proposes several activities …
The Best Kept Secret in English Education
The following is an excerpt from Ernest Morrell’s Presidential Address at the 2014 NCTE Annual Convention. (An audio clip is at …