Providing student-facing templates this article offers protocols for teachers to engage students with their Individualized Education Program goals during literacy lessons.

Drawing on current literature and empirical examples this three-part conceptual framework provides pedagogical guidance for literacy educators supporting students with significant support needs.

This column describes a three-pronged approach to incorporating into a classroom a book that represents some aspect(s) of diversity.

As the second piece of our year-long inquiry asking “What does it mean to prepare students for civic engagement?” Tim O’Keefe shares how his second-and third-grade students learn to observe the world more closely and ask critical questions about those things that appear to lack adequate explanation or justice.

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

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.

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

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

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.