Get Ready for World Read Aloud Day!
World Read Aloud Day, recognized on February 1, motivates children, teens, and adults to celebrate the power of words. This …
Greetings from the Secondary Section Steering Committee!
Greetings from the Secondary Section Steering Committee! My name is Tiffany Rehbein, and I am honored to serve as your …
Book Pairing Ideas: Romeo and Juliet
This blog was written by ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵ member Deanna Stephan. Even though my quick trip to Houston for ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵ-CEL 2018 feels …
Beale Street Talks and We Should Listen
On Sunday, as I watched, wept, and smiled through Barry Jenkins’ film rendition of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could …
Build Your Stack: Must-Read Books for Preservice Teachers
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This date in history marks the inauguration of a number of U.S. Presidents. This is a good date to look …
Giving Students Opportunities with the Reader Response Notebook
This post was written by ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵ member Ted Kesler, author of The Reader Response Notebook: Teaching towards Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability (2018, …
Resisting Readers’ Identity (Re)Construction across English and Young Adult Literature Course Contexts
This post was written by ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵ members Wendy J. Glenn and Ricki Ginsberg. In our recent article in Research in …
Three’s the Charm—or Is It Four?
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory debuted in 1964 and the book and subsequent films have cultivated salivating, sweet-toothed …
January 2019 #ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵchat: Librarianship and Language Arts
Libraries have likely played important roles in our lives as literacy teachers, whether they were libraries in our communities, libraries …