National Poetry Month: Writing Poetry
Help students recognize the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing poetry, and you’ll also enable the students to …
Storytelling and Persuasive Writing in the High School Classroom
This post was written by NCTE member Kristen Kalenowicz. In a recent position statement on the importance of incorporating …
EJ September Sneak Preview: Native Feminist Texts
The following post is by Julie Gorlewski and David Gorlewski, NCTE members and editors of the English Journal. [F]or Native …
The Critical Story of the “Science of Reading” and Why Its Narrow Plotline Is Putting Our Children and Schools at Risk
This post was written by NCTE member Dorothy C. Suskind. There is a critical story behind “the science of reading,” …
3 School Settings, 3 Ways to Celebrate Día (Children’s Day/Book Day)
This text is reprinted from Bringing “Bookjoy” and Cultural Awareness to Children Nationwide (The Council Chronicle, March 2016), by Lorna Collier. …
Creating Space for Making Sense of the World
This blog post is an excerpt from the article “Creating Space for Making Sense of the World” by Lisa Koester, Layne …
If Oppression Is the Problem, How Do We Face the Answer?
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Michael Seward, a member …
Field Notes: A Summer Filled with Members
This summer NCTE, its groups, and its affiliates held six different meetings in six different locations with hundreds of NCTE …
5 Reasons You Should Join Us at #NCTE19
Learn more about the 2019 NCTE Annual Convention on the convention web page and in the 2019 NCTE Convention Preview. …
Fostering a “Reading School” Climate
On a week when our attention is turned to the issue of book banning it’s interesting to consider why book …