Learning: The Fine Art of Drowning
This post is written by member Tom O’Connor. Education was not my forte. Given that I am a teacher, that …
National Poetry Month – Lyric Poetry
We’re now in our second week of celebrating National Poetry Month! Last week, we looked at narrative poetry. This week our …
Remembering Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens
This post was written by NCTE Past President Alfredo Celedón Luján. I met Bobbi at a Latinx Caucus meeting …
Finding the Poems that Hide: Why Students Should Write Poetry
This text by Kati Macaluso appeared on Teachers, Profs, Parents: Writers Who Care, a blog organized and maintained by members of …
Three Key Practices to Revitalize Reader Response Notebooks
A portion of this article by Lorna Collier appears in the September 2019 Council Chronicle. Reinvigorating the Reader Response …
Celebrate Poet Emily Dickinson!
Curious about the NCTE and Library of Congress connection? Through a grant announced recently by NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick, …
Top Ten Online Classroom Tools Visited on ReadWriteThink.org in 2015
ReadWriteThink.org has loads of resources for teachers and students but some of our most popular are our student interactive tools. …
The Desire for Literacy 8: Dear Chief
This is the last of our eight excerpts from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of …
Growing in Advocacy
The following post is by Lu Ann McNabb, NCTE Policy And Alliances Associate. When my daughter started kindergarten, I offered to …
Student Literary Magazines Take Students from Writers to Authors
This post was written by NCTE member Lee Ann van der Kwast. This was my fourth year as the …