Stories about tweens simply aren’t like those about teens or adults or “children”…

Even when a young child is curled up alone silently flipping pages, she is interpreting the text in ways influenced by the communities around her…

Andrea Arnold’s visually arresting take on Emily Brontë reveals how much our experience of certain literary schools, genres, and movements is filtered through the countless “prestige” films we’ve all seen over the years.

“Students who develop expertise with a particular kind of reading— science fiction or online games, for example—outside of school may not think this kind of reading will be valued by their teachers.”

It’s the asking of tricky questions, not the providing of pat, politically-correct answers, that builds lifelong habits of mind in students.

Have you ever heard educators complaining that students don’t listen? Guess what? This should not come as a surprise because listening as a literacy is rarely explicitly taught. Pure audio texts provide opportunities to practice this skill.

There’s a big reason why many kids will resist your “critical thinking” efforts: no one really likes critics.