This week college-level members will gather for the 57th Annual Convention of CCCC. Program Chair Akua Duku Anokye asked attendees to consider the question “How do we work in the middle spaces with integrity and conviction to clearly and loudly…
Category: NCTE Inbox
Inbox: Reading Habits in the Internet Age
This week’s Denver Post article “Technology Rewrites Rules for Reading” explores how students’ reading habits have been influenced by the various online reading that they do. More and more often, teachers, curriculum developers, and school literacy programs must search for…
Inbox: Raising Students’ Awareness of Copyright
March 6-10 is Copyright Awareness Week, an event designed to urge teachers from across the curriculum to teach students basic concepts of copyright, so the Ideas Section for this week’s Inbox discusses how to explore these issues with students.
Inbox: Celebrate Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day!
Better known to most readers as Dr. Seuss, Dr. Theodor Geisel was born 102 years ago this week. The Ideas Section for this week’s Inbox is titled Celebrate Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day!. The column includes lesson plans…
Inbox: Reading Across America (and Across the Grades)
March 2 is Read Across America Day, so it’s time to begin making plans for celebrations in the classroom. This week there was also an article in The Grand Rapid Times about a cross-level reading collaboration: Reading unites Calvin, Lee.…
Inbox: Improving Instruction for ELL/ESL Students
Inspired by an Arizona Republic article, which outlines the state’s struggle to find programs that will improve instruction for the English language learners in the public school system, the Ideas section of this week’s Inbox focuses on Improving Instruction for…
Inbox: Reading and Writing in All Subject Areas
The Ideas section for today’s Inbox focuses on Reading and Writing in All Subject Areas. As the piece explains, “President Bush’s proposal to focus solely on the quality of math, science, and technological education ignores the important critical thinking and…
Inbox: Does the Holocaust Matter?
NCTE is providing some resources for Oprah’s National High School Essay Contest, so the Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on “Does the Holocaust Matter Today?” I also added resources on the ALA awards that were announced on Monday.
Inbox: Research Strategies for the Internet Age
The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focused on Research Strategies for the Internet Age: how to examine resources, avoiding plagiarism, and so forth.
Inbox: Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on classroom activities to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. The column includes 5 different lesson plans and several articles.