Language Arts - Volume 98, Issue 1, 2020

We describe readers’ emotional and embodied transactions with the cordel—an arts-based strategy that supports readers’ approach to reading challenging texts about social justice issues.

Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson discusses why she writes for children and is not afraid to embrace issues in her work that some might find troubling or “risky.”

In this column, we feature titles to help children in grades K-8 find inspiration and role models for student agency and activism in troubling times.

This column reflects on how, even in the most troubled of times, literacy educators can remember the hope to be found in the poetics of children's pursuit of literacies.