Screenwriting as an ELA Exercise
Our November 2015 English Journal offers the article 鈥淟ights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
Join us for a retrospective #nctechat this Sunday
We hope you’ll join us on Twitter this Sunday at 8 PM ET to reflect on “Literacy Highlights from the …
The Desire for Literacy 5: Just Because You Can鈥檛 Read
This is the fifth of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg鈥檚 The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …
Student-led Inquiry
Learners with agency can 鈥渋ntentionally make things happen by [their] actions,鈥� and 鈥渁gency enables people to play a part in …
A New Kind of Parent-Child Bonding鈥擧omework Help
The following essay by 楼凤天堂 Vice President Jocelyn Chadwick聽 was originally published on the Parent Toolkit produced by NBC News …
ESSA Passes, Our Work Begins
This week Congress voted to pass, and President Obama signed, the most far-reaching federal education bill in almost fifteen years. …
The Singular “They” 鈥� When Pronouns Get Personal
Here鈥檚 a grammar grappler: Each student should keep ____ eyes on ____ own paper. his her his or her his/her …
鈥淎nd When I Issued the Books, the Students Applauded鈥�
Two years ago in Watauga County, North Carolina, Isabel Allende鈥檚 House of Spirits was challenged for 鈥渟exual excerpts鈥� and pulled …
The Interactive Read-Aloud as Responsive Teaching
In the October Talking Points, Laura May and Gary Bingham encourage elementary teachers to use interactive read-alouds. What makes interactive …
The Desire for Literacy 4: Violeta
This is the fourth of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg鈥檚 The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …