Language Arts - Volume 102, Issue 4, 2025

Using content analysis and a framework of hope, this study examines how children’s picture books explain the impact of climate change and ways to work toward climate justice.

Guided by a critical literacies orientation, this multi-sited case study emphasizes the devastating and poignant climate questions children grapple with through closely examining children’s illustrations.

As literacy educators consider how to approach ecojustice literacies education, centering the places that matter to children is an important and accessible entry point.

This piece proposes a framework for integrating environmental education by leveraging young adult climate fiction to recognize, question, and evaluate environmental issues and social justice.

Fifth-grade students became concerned about the effects of pollution on the environment, and they made their voices heard.

With a recognition that both the climate crisis and ELA teaching and learning can be experiences of profound helplessness and empowered action-taking, this column describes how every teacher can “teach for the climate” and by doing so teach for the future of the planet and the well-being of future generations.

The authors present methods and books for promoting climate justice that illuminate human interconnections to the earth, promote hope and action, and empower diverse voices.

In this article, kindergarten teacher Kyanna Samuel and literacy coach Jennipher Frazier share how kindergarten students are not too young to have “big discussions” around topics such as segregation, discrimination, justice, and advocacy.