Sound Foundations: Using Music to Build Early Literacy Skills
Phonological awareness, identified by the Early Literacy Panel (2008) as a predictor of later reading success, refers to a child’s ability to […]
Disability in Children’s Literature: Eight Books You Should Have in Your Classroom Library
Christine Scholma and Bill Boerman-Cornell Teachers face increasingly difficult challenges when they make choices about children’s and young adult texts to use […]
Found Families: An Idea for Blending Whole-Class Novels and Student Choice in Middle School and High School English Classrooms
The ideas in this article spring from three important identities I carry in my heart: reader, teacher, and child in the family […]
A School Tradition: Mock Caldecott and Mock Newbery 2022
Every year, the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces which literary works […]
Does Mr. Lincoln’s Way Look Like God’s Way?
by Luciano Cid, EdD If you have been an elementary teacher for a substantial period of time, chances are you have heard […]
A Different Person
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books […]
Teaching “Dirty Books”
About a year ago, Cedarville University, a Baptist school in Ohio, enacted a new curriculum standard based on Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brothers […]
The Top Ten Young Adult Books You Need to Read
This year I read a lot of young adult fiction, and I was struck by how much these books engaged social justice […]
Getting Young Readers Unstuck
by Heather Altena and Eleanor Tiemens Ah, newly independent readers. First through third graders are an intoxicating mix of excitement and intransigence […]
The Top Ten Picture Books of 2017 for the Elementary Classroom (and Beyond)
Picture books are powerful tools for children to start understanding the world around them. Authors and illustrators of picture books covered a […]