Language Arts - Volume 96, Issue 2, 2018

Utilizing queer theory, this study examines the promises and challenges of addressing gender and sexual identities through literature discussions with second graders.

Dr. Luis C. Moll describes his career as an education researcher who builds on the legacy of Vygotsky as he explores how the concept of funds of knowledge disrupts deficit orientations in language arts practices.

The winners of the Donald Graves Award for Writing 2017 are a learning community of teachers who engage with their students in Storying Studio.

Drawing on Disability Studies in Education (DSE), the authorsillustrate the affordances of literacy teachers’ engagementwith dis/ability narratives and dis/ability life writingfor creating inclusive classroom contexts.

This column showcases the winners of the 2018 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children.

This children’s literature review column showcases the winners of the 2018 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.

A children’s book author reflects on his recent, award-winning picturebook to detail, in a personal narrative, the importance of African American artists to use their mediums to provide inspirational, positive content for African American children.