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 NCTE 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 NCTE 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 #NCTEchat: Librarianship and Language Arts
Libraries have likely played important roles in our lives as literacy teachers, whether they were libraries in our communities, libraries …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Nonviolence
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 90 years ago. Students today can still learn so much from …
NCTE Children’s Book Award–Winning Titles for the African American Read-In
Each year during the month of February, hundreds of schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and professional organizations, and interested citizens …
Engaging Student Interests by Using New and Diverse Texts
This blog post was written by NCTE members and Michigan State University secondary English Education student teaching interns Amanda Blay …
What You Think Is Not Necessarily What I Need To Think
Intellectual Freedom means just that, the freedom to use our intellects to learn and think about what we want to …