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Language Arts is a journal for teachers from preK through eighth grade, sponsored by NCTE. Issues d

Language Arts is a professional journal for elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators. It provides a forum for discussions on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching, primarily as they relate to children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade. Issues discuss both theory and classroom practice, highlight current research, and review children's and young adolescent

literature, as well as classroom and professional materials of interest to language arts educators. (Published September, November, January, March, May, and July)

18/11/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Wintre Foxworth Johnson on being the 2022 Language Arts Journal Distinguished Article Award Winner!

06/06/2022

In “Interrogating Classroom Libraries: From Diversity to Responsiveness and Inclusion,” Aeriale N. Johnson makes a powerful call for educators to shift our thinking from curating diverse classroom libraries and toward curating responsively inclusive ones.

She focuses on sharing a type of children’s literature
that is often sidelined or dismissed: poetry. Johnson
features the work of poet Carole Boston Weatherford
before recommending single-poem picturebooks,
poet biographies, books in verse, and anthologies.

Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

05/06/2022

In the Writing Matters column by René Colato Laínez, the educator and author reflects on how and why he tells stories as an impetus to encourage all educators to share our gifts and to give the gift of telling stories.

Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

01/06/2022

The Responsive Teaching in Action column, “The Complexities of Trauma in Responsive Teaching,” reflects on the complex meanings of trauma and some of the implications of the trauma-informed movement for literacy educators. Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

31/05/2022

The Research and Policy column is authored by first grade teacher Anne Galligan and professor of education Erin T. Miller,
“Justice Is More Important than Kindness: Antiracist
Pedagogy in a First-Grade Classroom” provides a snapshot of practical deployment of antiracist pedagogy in a first-grade classroom. Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

29/05/2022

“Beyond Spanish: Building Truly Multilingual Classroom and School Libraries” describes how educators can find “authentic texts that represent their students’ languages,” particularly for the 25 percent of U.S. ELLs who don’t speak Spanish.

Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

24/05/2022

Make sure to read,“‘Why Can’t It Be More Like a Book Club?’ Re-
Visioning Writing Groups in the Classroom,” where the authors
share how a teacher inquiry group reflected on
experiences with book clubs to transform their
thinking about student writing groups.

Check it out here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

23/05/2022

In “‘Didn’t Japanese Internment Camps Happen in Japan, Not in America?’: An Inquiry Project Challenging Hidden Stories in
American History,” Yoo Kyung Sung explores children’s responses to racism toward Asian Americans as they read literature about Japanese incarceration camps during World War II.

Read it here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

22/05/2022

In this article Sakeena Everett and Tamara Moten demonstrate how literacy educators can develop robust literacy curriculum and instruction that cultivates curiosity and joy, builds intellectual capacity, and makes it impossible for Black boys to fail.

Read it with this free access link!
https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

21/05/2022

Check out the latest article by Kline & Kang, “Reflect, Reimagine, Revisit: A Framework for Centering Critical Writing Pedagogy,”where authors introduce a framework for educators to analyze and transform writing instruction that centers Critical orientations that interrogate dominant society and work toward dismantling power, oppression, and racism. https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

20/05/2022

Our May issue is here: Viewpoints and Visions

Across the pieces featured in this issue, there is a common focus on how to cultivate critical elementary literacy pedagogies that critique structures of power and oppression

Check out the Editor's introduction by visiting https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/issues/v99-5

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