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Pengaruh Komunikasi Interpersonal Orang Tua Terhadap Perilaku Remaja
Authors: Jannah F  , Tsuwaibatul Aslamiyah  , Ach. Baidowi  , Yanto  , S. Fathiyatul Jannah
Published: March 2024

Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui pengaruh komunikasi interpersonal orangtua terhadap perilaku remaja Dusun Tengah, Desan Tlonto Ares, Pamekasan. Metode penelitian dengan kuantitatif melalui pendekatan uji regresi. Penelitian dilakukan pada 56 remaja dengan menyebarkan angket. Uji hipoetsis dengan uji t. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: Koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,270 mengindikasikan bahwa terdapat hubungan lemah antara komunikasi interpersonal orangtua dan perilaku remaja. Analisis hipotesis menggunakan uji t menunjukkan bahwa t hitung sebesar 2,06, melebihi nilai t tabel sebesar 1,68. Oleh karena itu, hipotesis yang diajukan dapat diterima berdasarkan ketentuan bahwa jika t hitung lebih besar dari t tabel, hipotesis diterima. Hasil perhitungan menunjukkan bahwa komunikasi interpersonal orangtua memiliki pengaruh sebesar 7,29% terhadap perilaku remaja.
Terapi Bermain Puzzle untuk Meningkatkan Konsentrasi pada Anak Attention Deficite Hyperactive
Authors: Zahroh Waqiatus , Nur Imamah  , Eva Rosita
Published: March 2024

This study aims to understand the process of puzzle therapy and its influence on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at Rumah Cahaya Insan Generasi. The research method employed is qualitative with a case study approach. Data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and documentation. Data processing involves reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing. Data validity is ensured through meticulous observation and triangulation. The research findings indicate three stages: the initial stage involves preparing the space, assessing the child's condition, and providing rewards; the process stage includes collaborative therapy techniques, demonstrating puzzles to the child, and offering rewards; and the final stage involves recording the outcomes. The impact of puzzle games on children with ADHD supports improved concentration levels, as evidenced by the child's response to therapist instructions.

Keywords: Therapy, Concentration, Puzzle, Special Needs Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Adaptasi Kehidupan Santri Baru di Pondok Pesantren (Literarur Review)
Authors: Hestyaningsih Lika , Basuki Roswanto  , Alif Vianni Namina  , Arina Athiyallah
Published: March 2024

Pondok pesantren adalah salah satu lembaga pendidikan islam yang sebagian besar mewajibkan para santri atau satriwatinya untuk tinggal didalam pondok pesantren. Adanya peraturan serta lingkungan yang baru yang sangat berbeda dengan lingkungan saat para santri berada dirumah, memaksa para santri harus bisa beradapatasi dilingkungan barunya tersebut. Dalam proses adaptasi, para santri rentan mengalami permasalahan-permasalahan baik dalam pola hidup dan pola belajarnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran adaptasi pola kehidupan santri yang baru, yang akan tinggal selama belajar di dalam pondok pesantren dan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor apa saja yang mempengaruhi adaptasi santri baru di pondok pesantren. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah dengan literatur review, artikel yang dicari dengan menggunakan Google Scholar dan open knowledge map. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa santri baru masih kesulitan dalam adaptasi sehingga membutuhkan waktu yang cukup lama untuk dapat beradaptasi terhadap kegiatan di pondok pesantren, serta membutuhkan proses dalam membaur dengan kegiatan dan peraturan yang ada di pondok pesantren. Implikasi pada penelitian ini yaitu diharapkan memberikan gambaran proses adaptasi santri baru, faktor penyebab dan strategi yang dilakukan agar santri baru dapat beradaptasi dengan peraturan pondok pesantren.
Evaluasi Penerapan Cara Produksi Pangan Olahan yang Baik (CPPOB) di Departemen Bakery PT XYZ Ketapang
Authors: Wardanu Danu , Andriani Sri , Uliyanti Uliyanti
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi penerapan CPPOB pada PT XYZ dalam meningkatkan kualitas dan keamanan produk. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitataif yang terdiri dari beberapa tahapan yaitu perencanaan, pengumpulan  data,  analisis,  dan  pelaporan. Data yang dikumpulkan adalah data primer dan data sekunder yang diambil melalui wawancara dan observasi. Wawancara dilakukan dengan manajemen, personel produksi, dan staf kualitas PT XYZ untuk mengidentifikasi aspek-aspek utama yang dievaluasi, sedangkan observasi dilakukan langsung di lokasi perusahaan untuk memantau proses produksi dari penerimaan bahan baku hingga pengemasan produk jadi. Penilaian terhadap penerapan CPPOB berdasarkan kesesuaian terhadap Peraturan Menteri Perindustrian Republik Indonesia Nomor: 75/M-IND/PER/2010 tentang pedoman cara produksi pangan olahan yang baik.  Hasil evalusi penerapan CPPOB di PT XYZ telah dilakukan dengan baik, dimana persentase kesesuian mencapai 98% dan tidak sesuai sebesar 2%.
RE-VISIONS: “Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections,” Twenty Years Later
Authors: McLeod Susan H.
Published: March 2024

Maxine Hairston’s 1985 Chair’s Address is the first in an occasional series prompting us to reread and “re-vision” pivotal articles that have appeared in CCC. The full texts of those pieces will be available at CCC Online (http://inventio.us/ccc), and I invite you to reread those important texts online along with these new commentaries in print. For this inaugural appearance of “Re-Visions,” Joseph Harris and Susan McLeod comment on “Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections,” excerpts of which appear below (originally published in the October 1985 issue of CCC [Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 272–282]).
Interchanges “Read As If for Life”: What Happens When Students Encounter the Literature of the Shoah
Authors: Tinberg Howard
Published: March 2024

In any course about the Holocaust, students become engaged, or rather entangled, in ways that I had never dreamed possible in a school setting. The reader becomes the subject of the course as much as Eli Wiesel or Nelly Sachs or Primo Levi. And difficulty becomes the operating principle. Research into readers’ response to Holocaust literature, therefore, becomes imperative, as does research into faculty expectations when assigning the literature of trauma.
Young Scholars Affecting Composition: A Challenge to Disciplinary Citation Practices
Authors: Robillard Amy E.
Published: March 2024

The author argues that the new journal Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric offers access to student writing outside of the pedagogical apparatus that has historically accompanied the publication of such writing, and in the process challenges composition’s standard practice of citing students by first name only. Young Scholars in Writing, as representative of the disciplinary shift from a conception of writing as verb to writing as noun, compels composition studies to consider the affective aspect of citation, which often goes unremarked.
Liberation Theology and Liberatory Pedagogies: Renewing the Dialogue
Authors: Stenberg Shari J
Published: March 2024

The author argues for rethinking the longstanding division between critical pedagogy and liberation theology in the academy. After examining both the historical reasons that contribute to the split and the implications that result, the author demonstrates how key tenets of the prophetic tradition of liberation theology could enrich the critical classroom.
REVIEW: Persuasion in the Public Sphere: What an Argument Is, and What It Might Be Made to Do
Authors: Trainor Jennifer Seibel
Published: March 2024

Reviewed are: A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar, by Julie Lindquist Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education, by Catherine Prendergast.
From the Secondary Section: Novel Choices, Pun Intended
Authors: Shanley Roger W.
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Killing at Close Range: A Study in Intertextuality
Authors: Fischer Jeffrey
Published: March 2024

As an introduction to intertextuality, Jeffrey Fischer presents three similar texts about war to students and discusses the relationships between texts and experiences.
Talk to the Hand, Girl: Using Texts to Explore Student Voice
Authors: Clarke Lane W.
Published: March 2024

Through a unit on voice, Lane W. Clarke helped students recognize how people are marginalized through texts. By studying novels that used multiple narrative viewpoints, she was able to give students a “context for self-understanding and improved interpersonal relations.”
Creating Purpose and a Renaissance in Research
Authors: Caillouet Ruth R.
Published: March 2024

For Ruth R. Caillouet, the key to teaching the research paper was giving students a real purpose. To address this need, she designed a Renaissance and medieval studies unit for high school seniors that culminated in a schoolwide Renaissance Festival.
From the Secondary Section: Creating Collaboration
Authors: Atkins Janet
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
That’s Fierce! Collaboration in the English Classroom
Authors: Kipp-Newbold Rebecca
Published: March 2024

Partner conversations and Socratic seminars are excellent tools for generating productive class discussion.
“Everybody Wants Somebody to Hear Their Story”: High School Students Writing Screenplays
Authors: Bedard Carol , Fuhrken Charles
Published: March 2024

Students write and produce films in collaboration with the Austin Film Festival.
Mentoring Matters: Wanted: Mentors for Future English Teachers
Authors: McClain Melissa A.
Published: March 2024

“Mentoring Matters” focuses on effective ways to support new English teachers and student teachers.
Off the Shelves: Robert B. Parker Tackles the Adolescent Detective Novel
Authors: Bickmore Steven T.
Published: March 2024

“Off the Shelves” discusses new young adult literature and explores ways of teaching YA texts in middle and high school English classes.
Finding the Will to Individualize Instruction: How My Son Made Me a Better Teacher
Authors: Merritt Tonya
Published: March 2024

When students see a real-world connection to the literature they’re reading, they learn more about the literature—and the world.
Teaching (Dis)Abled: Reflections on Teaching, Learning, Power, and Classroom Community
Authors: Green Nicole E.
Published: March 2024

A teacher with a disability and her students learn something valuable from each other.
Teaching Young Adult Literature: Larry, Stargirl, and Montag: Troublemakers in the Classroom!
Authors: Roberts Mike
Published: March 2024

“Teaching Young Adult Literature” describes innovative methods for engaging students in reading, writing, and discussing contemporary and classic literary texts written for adolescents.
Eavesdropping on Contemporary Minds: Why We Need More Essays in Our High School Classrooms
Authors: Campbell Kimberly Hill
Published: March 2024

Stephen King, Dave Barry, and other essayists in popular magazines can engage student writers and offer fresh examples of excellent writing.
Prominent Feature Analysis: What It Means for the Classroom
Authors: Swain Sherry Seale , Graves Richard L. , Morse David T.
Published: March 2024

What exactly does good writing look like? The authors propose some practical answers.
In Closingâ€¦American Friends Making Zimbabwean Sahwiras
Authors: McCarthy Tracey
Published: March 2024

Children and educators from two continents learn together through the sharing of art, poetry, music, native language, letters, e-mails, stories, literature, gifts, and resources. Through the celebration of sharing one another’s lives, the children have opened their eyes to awareness of culture first hand as they bond the global educational community through friendship and love.
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE REVIEWS: The 2007 Orbis Pictus Award Winning, Honor, and Recommended Nonfiction Books Published for Children
Authors: Wilson Sandip , Avery Carol , Ford Kim , Hancock Marjorie , Read Sylvia , C. Stephens Elaine , Young Terrell A.
Published: March 2024

The Orbis Pictus Award Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English acknowledges excellence in nonfiction literature written for children. Each year the Committee selects up to fourteen outstanding books that make a contribution to children’s literature from among more than 300 books that are submitted. Topics of this year’s collection come from history, current events, and architecture and engineering yet focus on how communities and teams of people can make a difference in the quality of life for everyone. The committee selected honored and recommended titles in addition to the Orbis Pictus Award winner.
Professional Book Reviews: Challenges and Solutions: Children’s Literature in Today’s Kâ€“12 Classrooms
Authors: Pardo Laura , Kersten Jodene
Published: March 2024

Children’s literature can help students to understand complex concepts in content areas, how to participate in the world as a social activist, and the rich history and values of a cultural group. In this challenging era of national, state, and local policies, one might think that teachers have withdrawn their use of children’s literature and focused on test preparation.
Reading Salt and Pepper: Social Practices, Unfinished Narratives, and Critical Interpretations
Authors: Downer Anderson Diane
Published: March 2024

In “Reading Salt and Pepper” Anderson examines a story written by three third grade girls and their insights about that story as they re-read it during its production and retrospectively, eight years later. Using a frame for understanding children’;s writing as social practice, the children’;s interviews, showing their multiple and sometimes contrastive interpretations, are juxtaposed with the researcher’;s interpretations.
IN CLOSINGâ€¦: To Be a Teacher/Ser Maestro
Authors: Romero Angel Nieto
Published: March 2024

In the words of Angel Nieto Romero, we begin to see the complex characteristics and demanding roles of a teacher. This gift of poetry, presented in both English and Spanish, gives voice to what teachers know and what the people around them ought to know.
Professional Book Reviews: Expanding Our Learning, Changing Our Teaching
Authors: C. Brennan Mary , Burton Fred , Holland Robin , Medina Carmen , S. Oxley Peggy , Volz Allison
Published: March 2024

For this themed issue, In Support of Teaching…In Support of Learning…, the editors of Language Arts invited a group of current and former classroom teachers to contribute to the professional book reviews department.
Profiles and Perspectives: Art, Biography, and Collaboration: Creating Books for Children about Art and Artists
Authors: Greenberg Jan , Jordan Sandra
Published: March 2024

The authors reflect on their process for writing biographies for children about artists and their artwork. They describe the ways they meet the challenge of pulling the reader into the experience of a piece using the language of art. Specifically, they discuss their recent book about the lives and art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which focuses on the 2005 installation The Gates in New York City’s Central Park.
Building Relationships with Theory: Signs and Tools in Everyday Life
Authors: Whittaker Meredith
Published: March 2024

This article demonstrates how, even as adults, we make ever-changing relationships with the world around us, including relationships with theory. The author illustrates how we must adapt and change in order to incorporate new learning into our social experience. This tale of negotiating the DC subway system may strike a chord for many who have experienced new learning situations as adults.
Finding the Right Words: Art Conversations and Poetry
Authors: Reilly Mary Ann
Published: March 2024

Generative thinking is explored in this article by chronicling the development of middle school English language learners’ poetry writing through their interaction with visual art. The author explains how art conversations (Reilly & Cohen, 2008) were used to help students engage in dialogue about the topic of journeys and how students’ paintings were then used as a starting point for poetry writing. Drawing on research from Christine Leland and Jerome Harste (1994), Shirley Brice Heath (2000), David Perkins (1994), and Eliot Eisner (2001, 2002) the author advocates for transmediated instruction as a means for enhancing students’ thinking.
Professional Book Reviews: Multimodal Literacies: Linking Theory, Research, and Practice
Authors: Nelson Mark Evan
Published: March 2024

Threaded throughout this column and the three books reviewed is a concern for understanding the current and potential roles in literacy, learning, and life of dimensions of communication excluded from traditional conceptions of literacy education. These include visual imagery, movement, gesture, sound, embodiment, and even silence, as well as interrelations and interactions among them.
Professional Book Reviews: Support, Resources, and Challenges for Teachers in Forming Professional Communities of Inquiry
Authors: Avila JuliAnna
Published: March 2024

Although, as teachers, we are surrounded by others throughout the day, teaching can paradoxically feel like a solitary endeavor, as it can be hard to find the time to connect to other educators. Given the balancing act teachers have to accomplish each day, it can be easy to forget the positive effects of belonging to a professional community, let alone to know how to begin to construct one’s own.
In Closingâ€¦: When the DIBELS Came to Town
Authors: Leonard Lexanne
Published: March 2024

This poem by a first-grade teacher reminds all educators to resist the push to standardized learning and instead be vigilant advocates for our students’ rights.
“What He Wanted Was Real Stories, but No One Would Listen”: A Child’s Literacy, a Mother’s Understandings
Authors: White Connie L.
Published: March 2024

This article discusses the importance of including mothers’ knowledge of their children’s learning in school discourses, theories, and practices. It draws on the story of one mother who participated in the author’s research. The experiences explicated in this story elucidate exclusionary practices that silence and marginalize mothers in our school systems. The article shows why it is critical that we listen to these traditionally unheard voices, if we truly wish for more socially just and equitable classrooms. It offers examples of more hopeful, inclusive partnerships made possible when teachers look beyond the everyday taken-for-granted practices of schools and work with mothers toward creating new spaces and possibilities.
Professional Book Reviews: Disciplining Students, Teachers, and Schools: A Critical Look at Market-Based Reforms of the Language Arts
Authors: Rogers Rebecca , Pole Kathryn , Ingram Aleshea , Elias Martille
Published: March 2024

The book reviews in this column are written by core members of a grassroots group of literacy educators committed to social justice in schools and communities called The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group (LSJTRG). As a group, they take on issues that are both local and global“the privatization of public education, the continued segregation of schools, and the de-professionalization of educators, to name a few. This collection of reviews reflects not just summaries of books, but also a snapshot of the work that LSJTRG has been involved with over the past year (Rogers, Mosley, Kramer, & LSJTRG, 2009). Books reviewed include Kevin Kumashiro’s The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America’s Schools, Ken Goodman and colleagues’ The Truth about DIBELS: What It Is, What It Does, and the Rethinking Schools publication, Keeping the Promise? The Debate over Charter Schools. The authors invite you to use these books to create a lively dialogue and debate in your community.
Children’s Literature Reviews: Discipline and Characters in Children’s Literature
Authors: Neely Ann , Parsons Barger Bettie , Bercaw Lynne , Espinosa Mathew , Hundley Melanie , Iddings Chris , Smith Robin
Published: March 2024

Discipline . . . the teacher’s goal, perhaps. Why then do we often provide readers with characters, plots, and ideas that represent anything but discipline? Young readers love books where the characters may be unruly and unpredictable. They like stories where the characters get in and out of trouble. And they enjoy pondering the plot of a tale that may be troublesome to adult readers. Providing children and adolescents with characters who are undisciplined leads to lively discussions. The reviewers have tried to identify some of their recent favorites to balance this issue’s theme of “Disciplining the Language Arts.”
Profiles and Perspectives: Karen Smith: Language Arts Educator of the Year
Authors: Hudelson Sarah
Published: March 2024

This article honors Karen Smith, who has been given NCTE’s Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts award for 2009. Through the voices of many colleagues and former students, the article celebrates Karen as a teacher, learner, mentor, collaborator, scholar, storyteller, and visionary thinker and doer.
Professional Book Reviews: Perspectives on Equity and Identity: Exploring How Literacy Is Shaped in Schools, Homes, and Communities
Authors: Elias Martille , Labadie Meredith , Reese Barbara
Published: March 2024

The themes explored in this issue of Language Arts challenge readers to consider how literacy development is influenced, shaped, and created by inequities related to race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. The books reviewed in this column investigate conditions of classroom inequities from different perspectives: curriculum, educators, and policy. The first book, Children’s Literature and Learning: Literary Study across the Curriculum, written by Barbara A. Lehman, examines how educators can address issues of diversity and inequities, both through curriculum and by the kinds of literature they bring in to the classroom. The second book, Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom: Strategies from Urban Educators, edited by Karen Manheim Teel and Jennifer E. Obidah, offers a collection of articles intended to give teachers and teacher educators strategies for building cultural competence in future educators. And finally, Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture, by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, challenges our understanding of the sociology of childhood for children from diverse backgrounds, raising new implications for wide-reaching education policy.
Children’s Literature Reviews: Orbis Pictus Award Winners
Authors: Ford Kim , Avery Carol , Young Terrell , Cai Mingshui , Wilson Fran , S.Kaplan Jeffrey , Porter Diana
Published: March 2024

True to the tradition of the Orbis Pictus Award, the committee has selected one award-winning book, five honor books, and eight recommended books from among more than 325 titles of nonfiction for children submitted. This year, the books explore history, biography, art, and the animal world. Regardless of the subject matter or the reading level, all are books that entice a child to turn another page and keep reading. In selecting books, the committee looks for accuracy of presentation with appropriate documentation, organization of material that contributes to clarity and accessibility, an engaging style of writing and design, and potential contribution to the curriculum.
Professional Book Reviews: Critical Media Literacy in the 2.0
Authors: Gainer Jesse
Published: March 2024

The websites and books reviewed in this column offer educators background, ideas, and classroom-based examples relating to critical media literacy and how to incorporate it into teaching practices. The Zinn Education Project website, created by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, offer a wealth of ideas, materials, lesson plans, links and other resources for teachers interested in incorporating social justice themes into the curriculum. Media Literacy is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media, a book by Jeff Share, provides background on theory and practice relating to critical media literacy pedagogy in the elementary level. In addition to the book, an accompanying website provides additional resources and examples from classrooms. Captura: Digital Storytelling Toolkit is a website created by the Llano Grande Center. This multimodal text weaves print, video, and still pictures providing step-by-step instructions on how to create digital stories for community change. The detailed discussions on how to create such texts are supported by links to many outstanding examples created by students involved with the Llano Grande Center. Finally, Media Literacy: New Agendas in Communication, edited by Kathleen Tyner offers a diverse array of chapters providing ideas and insights generated from media literacy research in both formal and informal learning environments.
Focus on Policy - Policies Can Follow Practices
Authors: Roser Nancy
Published: March 2024

Roser discusses how both teachers and librarians, whom she calls the preservers of children’s reading, should cling tightly to three essential practices to ensure that our children read more, read better, and read more widely. She argues we should: a) keep the classroom library viable; b) preserve, protect, and defend time for self-selected reading; and c) make certain there are shared texts to talk over or to do something about. Regardless of instructional climate, level of student, number of benchmark assessments, surety of supervisors, quoted and misquoted reports, and curricula that leans toward “one size fits all,” Roser argues that teachers help to ensure that kids read both in school and beyond when they help make for access, choice, time, and talk in the classroom.
Professional Book Reviews - Children’s Reading Today and in the Future: Igniting their Passions and Engaging their Interests
Authors: Elias Martille , Rogers Rebecca , E. Wohlwend Karen , Saul E.Wendy , R.Sipe Lawrence , L.Wilson Jennifer
Published: March 2024

Often, the reading practices that children encounter in school represent only a small range of the countless ways in which students engage meaningfully with texts. Recent reports indicate that children are reading less literature than they have in the past. Are children reading less overall, or is it simply that the texts they are reading are changing? The reviews in this column reflect the complexity of these questions. The review of Play, Creativity, and Digital Cultures edited by Rebekah Willett, Muriel Robinson, and Jackie Marsh examines how children’s interactions with digital media influences their multi modal literacy development. It addresses ways for teachers to connect children’s love of new media to classroom practice. In keeping with the theme of new literacies, the second entry in this column does not review a book, but rather a website, INK: “Interesting Non-fiction for Kids,”that seeks to encourage children’s reading of non-fiction. This site includes commentary by non-fiction authors and provides opportunities for sparking young readers’ interest in non-fiction texts. This is a particularly salient issue as the concern that children are reading less is perhaps exceeded only by the concern that readers have abandoned non-fiction altogether. The next title, Embracing, Evaluating, and Examining African American Children’s & Young Adult Literature edited by Wanda Brooks and Jonda McNair highlights the importance of including rich, culturally diverse literature in the classroom. If we are to engage all readers, then children of all cultures, ethnicities and races should be able to see themselves in the literature of our classrooms. The final title reviewed in this column is Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher. This book challenges educators and administrators to consider how policy and curriculum is extinguishing children’s passion for books. Gallagher asserts that the only way to create readers is to give them books that matter, and teach them to read deeply.
Children’s Literature Reviews: What Did You Think of the Book?: Kids Speak Up
Authors: Davila Denise , Patrick Lisa
Published: March 2024

According to a publishing assistant for Bookpros, an independent publishing company, “Even though kids are the intended audience for children’s literature, their opinions are often overlooked.” Therefore, for this edition’s book reviews, we turn to the experts: the children. We asked children in first through eighth grade to read and review recently and soon-to-be- published picture books and novels. The reviews are organized according to the grade level of the reviewer and the title of the book.
Professional Book Reviews: The Transformative Possibility of Collaboration
Authors: Elias Martille
Published: March 2024

Books reviewed for the issue’s Professional Book Reviews column are: Children’s Language: Connecting Reading, Writing and Talk (2008) by Judith Wells Lindfors; Designing Socially Just Learning Communities: Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan (2009) by Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley, Mary Ann Kramer, and The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group; and Negotiating Literacy Learning: Exploring the Challenges and Achievements of Struggling Readers, K-6 (2008), edited by Janine K. Bixler.
Children’s Literature Reviews: 2009 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Authors: Day Deanna , Hahn Mary Lee , Napoli Mary , Mathis Janelle B. , McNair Jonda C. , Short Kathy G. , Sullivan Edward T.
Published: March 2024

Deanna Day, Mary Lee Hahn, Mary Napoli, Janelle B. Mathis, Jonda C. McNair, Kathy G. Short, and Edward T. Sullivan Every year the Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Committee reads and reviews hundreds of books that language arts teachers will enjoy sharing and recommending to their students. The committee identified thirty titles designated as notable, using criteria that included: Books that deal explicitly with language, such as plays on words, word origins, or uniqueness in the use of language or style; books that invite child response or participation; books that have an appealing format, be of enduring quality, and meet generally accepted criteria of quality for their specific genres. For more information about the Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, visit the Children’s Literature Assembly’s website at http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/.
In Closing … Humbled by a Fifth-Grader’s Homework
Authors: Fuhrken Charles
Published: March 2024

This issue’s In Closing… page features the collaboration between a fifth-grader, his uncle, and the Internet as they work together to answer homework questions.
2005 NCTE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: You are Here: The Moment in Literacy Education
Authors: Bomer Randy
Published: March 2024

The following is the text of Randy Bomer’s presidential address, delivered at the NCTE Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in November 2005.
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
Authors: Beach Richard , Bigelow Martha , Dillon Deborah , Galda Lee , Helman Lori , Kalnin Julie , Lewis Cynthia , O’Brien David , Sato Mistilina , Jorgensen Karen , Liang Lauren , Rijlaarsdam Gert , Janssen Tanja
Published: March 2024

The committee reviews important research works in the teaching of English that have been published in the last year. Committee members include Richard Beach, Martha Bigelow, Deborah Dillon, Lee Galda, Lori Helman, Julie Kalnin, Cynthia Lewis, David O’Brien and Mistilina Sato, Karen Jorgensen, Lauren Liang, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Tanja Janssen.
Blundering Border Talk: An English Faculty Member Discusses the Writing Center at His Two-Year Campus
Authors: Tassoni John Paul
Published: March 2024

This article enacts the difficulties and hopes a compositionist in the English Department perceives in his attempts to establish a collaborative arrangement with the writing center at the regional campus where he works.
Instructional Note: Collaboration and Critical Thinking in Online English Courses
Authors: Simpson Katherine P.
Published: March 2024

With increasing demands for online courses in all levels of higher education, a community college English instructor implements alternative methods of communication to ensure course rigor and integrity as she meets her objectives of enhanced student learning and success.
Imposed Upon: Using Authentic Assessment of Critical Thinking at a Community College
Authors: Buffamanti Suzanne , David Denise , Morris Robert
Published: March 2024

An authentic assessment embedded in a course becomes a teaching tool integral to the aims of the course, not simply a mandated test.
Instructional Note: Use of the Personal Interview as a Teaching Tool in English Composition
Authors: Morris Barbara A.
Published: March 2024

English composition instructors who use the personal interview to foster socialization among students and to generate quick and easy writing experiences may overlook the valuable learning opportunities that the personal interview can also bring to an English composition classroom if the assignment is integrated into the classroom through a structured approach.
Crosstalk: GPS (Grammar Positioning System)
Authors: Blaauw-Hara Mark , Anderson Andy
Published: March 2024

In this Cross Talk, Mark Blaauw-Hara, the author of “Mapping the Frontier: A Survey of Twenty Years of Grammar Articles in TETYC,” and one of the manuscript’s reviewers, Andy Anderson, engage in a brief conversation about the essay, its content, and the processes of writing, reviewing, and revising.
Instructional Note: Resurrecting the I-Search: Engaging Students in Meaningful Scholarship
Authors: Klausman Jeffrey
Published: March 2024

The intersection of the call for civic engagement and the call for student scholars at the center of writing pedagogy, along with the daunting challenge of introducing beginning students to the demands and rewards of academic writing, is an ideal location for a revival of Ken Macrorie’s I-Search paper.
Crossing the Student/Teacher Divide at the Community College: The Student Tutor Education Program (STEP)
Authors: Werner James V.
Published: March 2024

This article describes the Student Tutor Education Program (STEP) at Westchester Community College, which identifies and recruits potential future college English teachers at the community college level while they serve as peer writing tutors, with benefits to the entire college community as well as the teaching profession in general.
Instructional Note: Literature Ink
Authors: Geyer Jan
Published: March 2024

This article describes an approach to discussing and writing about literature using common student experience, with tattoos as a point of entry.
Gender and Peer Response
Authors: Tomlinson Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

This case study examines written peer response materials generated by small groups with varying gender compositions. Based on those observations, I offer several pedagogical implications.
Talking Books
Authors: Damico James , Campano Gerald , Harste Jerome C.
Published: March 2024

This column discusses the value of identifying with literary characters—and the value of not identifying with them—and places both in the context of the inquiry work the authors do with texts and readers.
Overcoming Overcoming Dyslexia
Authors: Strauss Steven L.
Published: March 2024

Steven Strauss, a linguist and practicing neurologist, critiques the theory and science behind Sally Shaywitz’s research on reading and the brain that has so strongly influenced federal reading policies, and finds it lacking.
Responses to the Readers Theatre
Authors: Casey Mara , Hemenway Steve
Published: March 2024

Mara Casey and Steve Hemenway revisit their article from the May 2006 issue of Talking Points, “What Students Want Writing Teachers to Know: A Readers Theatre Based on Longitudinal Listening, Grades 3–12.” They solicit and report on comments from many of the original participants to the study, who provide us with significant insights regarding the teaching of writing.
Talking TAWL
Authors: Schultz David P.
Published: March 2024

Two new TAWL groups are introduced, and three other groups catch us up on their recent activities.
Book Review: High Praise for the Power! A Review of The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy through Art by Beth Olshansky
Authors: Cornett Claudia E
Published: March 2024

Claudia Cornell reviews Beth Olshansky’s new book, The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy through Art, which uses an innovative arts-based alternative to tap into the source of all good writing—the pictures inside and outside your head.
Talking TAWL
Authors: Schultz David P.
Published: March 2024

Reports from various TAWL groups around the country discuss each group’s activities.
Talking TAWL: The Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking
Authors: Meyer Rick
Published: March 2024

Rick Meyer, past president of CELT (Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking), introduces us to the organization’s history and current activities. CELT is dedicated to the improvement of education through a greater understanding of the relationship between language, thought, and learning.
Editor’s Message: Boundaries
Authors: Beers Kylene
Published: March 2024

Beers discusses the tension between globalization—the process that unites people and business at the global level—and retribalization—the reaction to globalization that drives people to rebuild boundaries and to seek out those who share their own looks, values, and beliefs. Teachers are our most equipped force to take up the challenge of stretching boundaries and teaching language as a uniting force rather than a divisive one, and books are teachers’ most powerful tool. This issue on multicultural literature will offer ideas for which books can help open eyes and ways to help those eyes evaluate and value what they see.
Middle Level Section News
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

Election news; Halle Award information; NCTE business tidbits
Literature: Elements Of Style: The Element of Context: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Authors: Jago Carol
Published: March 2024

Independent readers are adept at identifying clues and absorbing unfamiliar details while constructing a context for their reading. Dependent readers, however, shy away from the unfamiliar and thus live in the narrow world of the familiar. Teachers can push these students into the broader world with Jago’s tips.
Tech Connect: Online Communities: Linking Teacher to Teacher
Authors: Patterson Nancy
Published: March 2024

With a premise of “Teaching is an isolating profession,” Patterson traces her growing use of and appreciation for online communities, including e-mail and listservs, where teachers can support each other, learn from one another, and come to care about one another amidst a hectic and demanding schedule.
Too Little or Too Much? What Do We Know about Making Vocabulary Instruction Meaningful?
Authors: Allen Janet
Published: March 2024

An expert on vocabulary instruction, Allen reviews what we know as a profession to be of value to students and offers three types of practices that demonstrate meaningful vocabulary instruction. She also describes how vocabulary words can be used as a rich source of assessment.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words, well, words can kill …
Authors: Probst Robert E.
Published: March 2024

To those who would claim that the study of literature is impractical, Probst would respond vehemently, “No, it is essential.” The habit of thoughtful reading, insightful questioning, and critical evaluation are learned in English language arts classes where a variety of genres, characters, and situations push students to analyze and debate and ultimately learn more about what they value and what they believe. It is this habit of mind that turns out citizens capable of analyzing public language and participating in a successful democracy.
Technology Toolkit: Mapping the Journey
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

Technology in the classroom is poorly used and poorly understood, yet student surveys tell us that more--and more engaging--Internet activities would improve their attitudes toward school and learning. Here, Sandy Hayes reminds us that students don’t need to learn to use the tools, they need to use the tools to learn, and they, in many cases, can be our guide. Hayes adds to this discussion with a “toolkit” in table form that matches forms of technology with specific skills and instructional goals.
New Puzzles, Next Moves: How Do We Talk with Students to Help Them Learn?
Authors: Shanklin Nancy
Published: March 2024

Shanklin explains how we can use talk—thoughtful and immediately relevant talk—with our students to elaborate on content and on literacy strategies. She offers specific strategies and guides for increasing productive talk and shows how it deepens engagement and learning.
Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Multiple Ways of Learning and Knowing
Authors: Silvers Penny
Published: March 2024

With a common thread of engagement and meaningful learning, Silvers reviews Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm; New Literacies in Action: Teaching and Learning in Multiple Media by William Kist; Telling Pieces: Art as Literacy in Middle School Classes by Peggy Albers and Sharon Murphy; Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girls by Holly Virginia Blackford.
Bumps In The Road:There Is More to Fluency than Speed and Accuracy
Authors: Hedrick Wanda , Harb Rita , Paone Adrienne , Sikes Christine , Clark Peggy
Published: March 2024

Fluency is another concept whose many definitions lead to widely differing practices. It is easy to understand that reading words on a page does not make a person fluent if they don’t take away meaning from that reading. Hedrick asks that teachers and administrators examine policies that let speed and accuracy in reading substitute for meaning making.
Bringing Words to Life and into the Lives of Middle School Students
Authors: Moen Christine Boardman
Published: March 2024

While strongly endorsing a multi-pronged approach to vocabulary instruction, Moen takes pains to include and even emphasize work with English Language Learners. By adhering to the principles of A.C.T. (Access to texts, individual Choice of reading material, and Time to read), Moen finds myriad ways to make learning words a creative and social process that increases opportunities for practice and retention.
Postcard from the Middle Level Section
Authors: Johnston Jim
Published: March 2024

Johnston, a middle level steering committee member, describes the motivational value of the Promising Young Writers contest, and comments on the heightened impact of coaching on students who are preparing submissions.
“That Was Basically Me”: Critical Literacy, Text, and Talk
Authors: Wilson Jenifer L. , Laman Tasha Tropp
Published: March 2024

Discouraged by the common practice of having students read alone and then take computerized tests, the authors advocate for engaging students in meaningful literature discussion that provides opportunities for new and deeper understandings of texts.
Next Steps in the Journey: Learning to Play the Literacy and Learning Games-A Question of Enculturation
Authors: Wilhelm Jeff
Published: March 2024

Understanding that learning must be relevant and purposeful to be effective and engaging, Wilhelm emphasizes the value of teaching students “how to participate in meaningful activity in ways that make them increasingly expert in creating culture and … cultural meanings.” He offers bullet points that suggest starting with students’ experiences, interests, and knowledge, and then designing curriculum to deepen and expand their understandings while increasing engagement.
Technology Toolkit: Acceptable Use 2.0
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

Kids need the guidance of adults—parents and teachers—in learning to navigate the Internet responsibly every bit as much as they need them for learning to navigate the automotive highway. But many adults don’t have the savvy to provide that guidance without some training of their own. Here, Hayes explains relevant resources that are available to both teachers and parents. She also emphasizes the importance of teachers and parents working together to set boundaries and expectations. She urges all parents to talk to their children about Internet use and to develop a family “Acceptable Use Policy.”
Student to Student: Books: Road Maps to Connections
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

Connections and relationships, for better or for worse, are what middle school kids are all about. In this environment of fragile friendships and shifting alliances, books about friendship are a natural. Here are some books that will help your students explore situations and relationships in a safe and interesting way.
Postcard from the Middle Level Section: The NCTE Website
Authors: Johnston Jim
Published: March 2024

Carol Gilles walks us through some of the best features of the newly organized NCTE website (www.ncte.org), and invites all members to some see what’s there for them.
New Puzzles/Next Moves: Webquests: A Literacy/Technology Practice That Fosters Adolescents’ Curiosity
Authors: Shanklin Nancy
Published: March 2024

Shanklin discusses webquests as a great way to offer diverse reading materials as part of an inquiry cycle alone or in teams, answering a question, solving a problem, completing a task often involving interdisciplinary learning. The appeal of integrating technology and the intrigue of learning to create webquests for each other make this an exiting addition to any teacher’s arsenal.
Postcard from the Middle Level Section
Authors: Johnston Jim
Published: March 2024

In a teaching climate of test prep and scripted lessons, Johnston has given up the classroom. He has not given up on teachers, however. Here is a description of the rationale for a Middle Level study committee that plans to document poor teaching practices dictated by school districts and to construct a database with research-supported techniques that can validate alternative approaches for those reluctant administrators who so easily buy into structured programs they can control.
Books for Young Adolescents: Navigating the Crossroads with YA Books
Authors: Bird Shawn , Giles Vickey M.
Published: March 2024

Recognizing that books can help students make better choices, the editors review four YA books that might strike a chord with your next troubled student: Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor; A Field Guide to High School by Marissa Walsh; Click: One Novel, Ten Authors by David Almond et al.; Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Stories along the Way: Rise Up
Authors: Kittle Penny
Published: March 2024

Understanding the reality of students who aren’t engaged in literacy, Kittle proposes nothing less than revolution. She asks you to evaluate whether your students read enough, write enough, and rewrite enough, then challenges: If not, what would you have to change to make that happen?” She shares examples from her classroom, and leaves us with a call to courage … now.
Student to Student: The Nature of Friendship
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

Friendship lies at the very heart of the middle school experience. Here are books to help students navigate those waters, recognize what (and who) has value, and determine what kind of friend they want to be.
Editors’ Message: The Road Seldom Taken: Poetry
Authors: Henkin Roxanne , Harmon Janis , Pate Elizabeth , Moorman Honor
Published: March 2024

Sadly, most poetry lovers didn’t embrace their passion because of school experiences. In this issue, the authors explore how to nurture a love of poetry in the classroom and how to make the “road seldom taken” a well-worn path.
Celestino: A Tribute to the Healing Power of Poetry
Authors: Heard Georgia
Published: March 2024

Georgia Heard spent a week with students in New Mexico, encouraging their search for “self-portrait poetry”—poetry in which they saw themselves. She witnessed courage, pain, tragedy, and hope in the choices and writing of those struggling students, and came to learn that at least one among them had found a life-changing outlet.