Language Arts - Volume 101, Issue 2, 2023

Using narrative inquiry and field observations, the authors investigated how elementary preservice teachers’ identities related to and informed their attempts to queer literacy instruction.

Sharing young emergent bilinguals’ artwork and voices, this article highlights drawing and talking as valuable practices to recognize capacities and create belonging in literacy classrooms.

Seven teachers share the challenges and possibilities of developing culturally responsive approaches that highlight how Language Arts curriculum makes a diversity of impacts.

In this column, the author makes the case for using digital game stories in the language arts classroom, juxtaposing exemplary games with more traditional texts.

Sharing young emergent bilinguals’ artwork and voices, this article highlights drawing and talking as valuable practices to recognize capacities and create belonging in literacy classrooms.

Each year, the NCTE Outstanding Poetry for Children Award Committee selects notable poetry books and verse novels published within the calendar year. In this article, we offer three themes the 2023 NCTE Notable Poetry and Verse Novels address and offer reviews for teachers to consider as they share these books with their students.

Sharing young emergent bilinguals’ artwork and voices, this article highlights drawing and talking as valuable practices to recognize capacities and create belonging in literacy classrooms.

This interview shares the groundbreaking and optimistic vision of Drs. Jill Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin L. Ryan for expanding literacies to include the lives and issues of LGBTQIA+ people in elementary school language arts classrooms.

This column showcases winners of the 2023 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for children.

Building relationships, embracing the cultures of your students, and providing mentor texts that reflect your students can lead to a beautiful writing classroom.