In The Vocation of a Teacher, Wayne Booth, the literary critic and longtime English professor, posed a question that floats into my mind every May: “Why, if I claim to love teaching so much, am I so ...

In order for English language teaching to be attractive or perhaps less boring for children, in recent years the publisher has tried to make attractiveness one of the main criteria for children's ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Children’s Book Week (April 29 to May 5) is coming up, and it’s the perfect excuse to review your child’s colorful little library and stock up on all those titles you may have missed. Books provide so ...

It's never too early to teach youngsters about the rich history and cultural legacy honored during Black History Month and all year long. This February and beyond, you can spark your child's curiosity ...

Just about every "great book" or author that I was forced to read in high school I didn't understand until I was old enough to get it. I was assigned to read Walden over a winter break my freshman ...

In Teaching Sustainability/Teaching Sustainably, Danielle Lake writes the best sentence I have ever read summarizing sustainability: “Understanding sustainability as a wicked problem, and recognizing ...