By: Jessica Michael Bowman While I wasn’t able to attend #NCTE18, I have been fangirling from the sidelines. I’m not the tweetiest of Twitterers, but in the days following that prolific meeting of kindred hearts and minds, I refreshed, scanned, and refreshed Twitter repeatedly – the bleary, red-rimmed eyes of Read more…
Today’s post is brought to you by guest contributor Kayla Good, Language Arts teacher extraordinaire at Poca Middle School. We love Kayla’s smart reflection on her craft and the work that engages her students. By Kayla Good I am a firm believer that teaching children empathy and understanding is of utmost Read more…
The reading arc of a school year is a lovely thing to witness, but an even more enjoyable journey to participate in. We begin the year falling in love with reading: a first quarter of high-interest, riveting works that match each reader where he or she is. The first days Read more…
My students hate to write and it shows. Those happy little writers in elementary school making their first board books have been sucked up into the morass of testing and spit back out as writing curmudgeons. They have lost their voice when it comes to putting ideas down on paper. Read more…
I value my students’ identities as readers and writers and I have been consciously making changes in my classroom to reflect that. My classroom climate is becoming one where a culture of reading is the norm and notthe exception. My students pull out books at every opportunity and it fills Read more…