A Snapshot of Learning: Fifth Graders Read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
This post was written by NCTE member Yvonne de St. Croix. At a time in education when the narrative …
Today is the International Day of Peace
The United Nations has declared September 21 as the International Day of Peace. In a message commemorating the Day in …
Build Your Stack: Books and Poetry on Courage, Hope, and Humanity
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge …
Unmasking the Mythical Narrative Surrounding the Five-Paragraph Essay
This post was written by NCTE member Anastasia Gustafson. During my first year of college, I was sitting in …
Stop Wasting Time
This blog post is written by member Lorena Germán. It is the first of two parts. The idea for the …
June #NCTEchat: Reading Challenging Texts
“When students learn about and from challenging texts, they learn to read the word and the world.” —James S. Chisholm …
Teacher Voice Matters to Winning Support for Comprehensive Literacy Learning for All Students
On April 15, 2015, during the Senate markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NCTE issued an Action …
What Books Have Changed Your Life?
Last year during Independent Bookstore Day, a local bookstore in Ann Arbor where I live set up a photo booth …
Spring of Tentative Hope
This post is written by NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst for Alabama, Cindy Adams. To quote from Dickens in A Tale …
Remembering Ray Bradbury at 100 Years
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. In addition to writing twenty-seven novels, including Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and over 600 …