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Teacher Resources for Black History Month
Looking Back to Move Forward
Ayanna Cooper shares teacher resources for Black History Month
Black History Week began as a week-long celebration to acknowledge achievements of Black Americans and other people of African descent 91 years ago. During...
Fable Learning’s enhanced e-books inspire reading
With a collection of award-winning e-books, Fable Learning’s digital content is specially designed to engage Pre-K–8 students in learning and discovery. Educators rely on Fable Learning for enhanced support to inspire reading and meet...
Celebrate World Arabic Language Day
December 18th is UN Arabic Language Day, an occasion, "to celebrate the language of 22 Member States of UNESCO, a language with more than 422 million speakers in the Arab world and used by more...
Saving Scotland’s Gaelic Language
The cultural colonization of Anglo-American media has threatened countless languages, including the Gaelic language of Scotland. Not to be confused with the Irish language, which also descended from the Celtic language of the Gaels, Gaelic is slowly...
August 2015
Diplomatically Speaking
Over the last month, the art of diplomacy has been in the spotlight—we’ve seen the signing of an historic nuclear agreement between the U.S., the UK, Russia, Germany, France, China, the European Union,...
Making Words Dance
Kwame Alexander and Chris Colderley explain why we need to read and write more poetry in (and outside of) the classroom
I tried to do the same thing for her when I was twelve.
I hadn’t...
August 2015
Making Words Dance
Kwame Alexander and Chris Colderley explain why we need to read and write more poetry in (and outside of) the classroom
Precision Rotation
Lance Knowles applies real-world knowledge to the implementation of the...
July 2015
American Independence
Could Spanglish become America’s own common language?
The news that there are more Spanish speakers in the U.S. than in Spain (see page 14) may not surprise many Americans, but when it’s combined with...
Words + Pictures
Lina Sun sees the value of using graphic novels to help develop multiliteracies
The recent introduction of the Common Core State Standards in the U.S. and their emphasis on teaching with authentic functional texts that...
Making Angelenos Well-Read en Español
On May 15 through 17, the Los Angeles Convention Center was packed with families and readers of all ages for the fourth LéaLA, LA's Spanish -language book fair. This free event is organized by...
