The Uncommon Corps

Recently I was copied on an email sent from a well-known nonfiction author to other nonfiction writers.  The author was wondering about how ...

I thoroughly enjoyed the AASL meetings last week in Hartford.   I went to several author panels.   It’s always fun to put a face and voice t...

Four out of the five of us were in Connecticut this week for the annual conference of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) i...

A recent article by Karla Moller in the Fall 2013 issue of   Journal of Children's Literature  entitled "Considering the CCSS Nonfi...

A colleague just shared this posting from T he Washington Post Answer Sheet blog . Over one hundred authors and illustrators of children...

Wow! It’s D é j à Vu All Over Again Remember thematic studies? Classroom inquiries? Author studies? I’m talking about years ago dur...

If ever there was confirmation that the new Common Core Standards are not, in fact, asking that Language Arts and English teachers no longer...