Call for Submissions - Your Chance to Publish!

Dear Jennifer, We invite you to consider submitting an article for publication in our 2018 Primer Journal-Teaching Literacy Today: Relating Research to Practice. Topics may include but are not limited to cultural literacy, visual literacy, critical literacy, disciplinary literacy and other facets of reading and language arts. Deadline for Submissions is March 1, 2018. Please submit articles to: Jo Ann Thompson. Sample Primer Article. Manuscript Submission Guidelines The Primer welcomes original contributions on all facets of reading, language arts, and literacy education. Guidelines are as follows: Manuscripts are limited to no more than 6,000 words including references and other material (tables, charts, etc.) Manuscripts should be double-spaced in 12 point font and should be saved as Microsoft Word documents Manuscripts should be prepared according to the style specified by the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) style manual Each manuscript should include a cover sheet containing (a) the manuscript title, (b) the author’s name, affiliation, position, preferred mailing address, email address, telephone number(s), and fax number. No identifying information should appear elsewhere in the manuscript.

How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading

How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading

An article by Jennifer Gonzalez, from her blog, Cult of Pedagogy

If I had to pick one thing that makes the biggest difference in the quality of any person’s education, the quality of their life, really, it would be reading. And I’m not really talking about basic literacy—not about the ability to read—I’m talking about reading for pleasure, to satisfy curiosities, to understand how people work and find solace in knowing we are not the only ones who think and feel the way we do.

That kind of reading.

But when I see what my kids do in school for “reading,” it doesn’t really look like reading.