Language Arts is a professional journal for elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators. It provides a forum for discussions on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching, primarily as they relate to children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade. Issues discuss both theory and classroom practice, highlight current research, and review children's and young adolescent literature, as well as classroom and professional materials of interest to language arts educators. (Published September, November, January, March, May, and July)
Editors:
Peggy Albers, Caitlin Dooley, Amy Seely Flint, Teri Holbrook, and Laura May
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Contact: langartsgsu@gmail.com
Read the latest issue . . . September 2011 (Theme: Shaping Early Literacy Policy and Practice) and listen to podcasts featuring Richard Allington, P. David Pearson, Penny Kittle, and Tom Romano.
"Learning to read is at once the most basic, time-honored, and yet most complex and future-focused activity of schooling. In the aftermath of strict enforcement of prescriptive curricula, new education policies have clear opportunities to revalue the prerogatives of teachers that extend from their depth of professional knowledge and experience."
–Helen Maniates and Jabari Mahiri, p. 20
Recent Themes
July 2011:
Inquiries and Insights
May 2011:
Stories of Achievement
March 2011:
Remaking Literacies across Time and Place
January 2011:
The Rights of Readers
November 2010:
From the Beginning . . .
September 2010:
Language Arts in a 2.0 World
July 2010:
Inquiries and Insights