As the weather starts to warm and summer break approaches, you can bet there are conversations happening across elementary and secondary ELA departments about summer reading. Should we select one book that everyone will read? Should we provide students with a list of books to choose from? How will we curate the list? By gradeContinue reading “Can We Assign a Love of Reading?”
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Book Talk: YA Books Featuring Creative BIPOC Students.
Book can help students image themselves doing things they never thought they could do. In the titles below, your students can see themselves as writers, capable of sharing their gifts with the world. Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant is about writer, Tessa Johnson. Tessa only shares her stories with her BFF Caroline. After herContinue reading “Book Talk: YA Books Featuring Creative BIPOC Students.”
Is the lack of YA in school robbing our students?
Censorship of books is not a new concept for teachers. There are always people trying to shield young minds from “inappropriate” ideas. Unfortunately this outrage, while thought to be well intended, is usually made by adults expressing concern about literature read in class because THEY are uncomfortable, not the students. In addition, these objections areContinue reading “Is the lack of YA in school robbing our students?”
Book Talk: BIPOC YA Texts for Your Classroom
Choosing titles by diverse authors with BIPOC characters can not only help your students of color see themselves in the books they read in class, but also allow your white students to learn more about people and places that are different from their lived experiences. Therefore I wanted to share a few texts that youContinue reading “Book Talk: BIPOC YA Texts for Your Classroom”
Teaching with Equity 