Selecting Texts for Your Students and Your Course
Perhaps during these hot and sticky summer days, you’re working on Build[ing] Your Stack™ of texts that you want to share with your students. If so, I’m sure you’re thinking…
Perhaps during these hot and sticky summer days, you’re working on Build[ing] Your Stack™ of texts that you want to share with your students. If so, I’m sure you’re thinking…
Contribute an artifact to a celebratory collection of teacher creativity. Please share a photo or piece of your writing that celebrates the arts of language! This fall NCTE will bring…
This is a guest post written by Chantal Winstead NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst from Virginia. In March 2013, after recognizing writing weaknesses in Virginia’s 11th-grade English Standards of Learning (SOL)…
This post is written by member Amy Estersohn. One way to help students connect with books is to engage with the authors who write them. Here are five easy ways…
I’m in two, sometimes three, book groups and I know from experience that interesting, delightful, luscious, learning feeling of discussing a common read with others—one version of an English teacher’s…
…theme an exclusionary category. Rather, the themes and examples can be a tool to help build increasingly diverse collections. Within each category, I provide picture book recommendations diverse in character…
…either fold our tents and go hide in the woods, or we can adapt and build a better campsite. This excerpt addresses the process of adapting literary texts to song,…
…to explore this challenge with your students every November. It is a great way to build community in the classroom and give students freedom of creativity. It was fun talking…
Learn More When You Register for this Educator Advocacy Webinar “It has been said that those closest to the pain should be closest to the power. . . ….
…and we celebrated International Literacy Day on September 8. It’s an ideal time for us as educators to reflect on how we can build lifelong literacy skills in our students….
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