I remember, very clearly still, my childhood bedroom, a warm and tidy little space with light yellow walls and a bed with a blue and green floral comforter. I remember many happy evenings in this room, reading with my dad before I fell asleep.

Whether you are a parent reading at home with your young child or a teacher trying to engage a 12th-grade class, picture books matter. Picture books' tactlessness, their glossy covers, and bright pictures beg to be opened, to be read, but also to be experienced.

Long before any of my children were of school age, they were writers. Matthew, at two years old, would "fill out"the collection envelopes in Mass, making marks in the "name," "address" and "amount" blanks.

In Part 2 of Dr. Kati Macaluso's blog post on supporting writers in the home, she continues the work she began in Part 1. In Part 1, Dr.

Over a century ago, American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey stated, "We do not learn from experience...

Interested in learning more about read alouds? Check out the "We Are All Readers and Writers" book talks!

"Education is the process of learning to create ourselves, and it is what the arts, both as a process and as the fruits of the process, promote.

Welcome to the blog for the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education (CLE). We hope that you will learn a great deal about powerful literacy practices from educators at the CLE and in K-12 classrooms across the country.

When working with pre-service teachers in New York, less than two weeks into their student teaching placement, we asked them to clear off their desks except for a piece of paper and pen. We then asked them to write a class list.

My fourth-grade teacher's classroom walls were cluttered with educational and motivational posters that she had collected over the years. Most vivid in my memory is one with dramatic mountain peaks colored by the sunrise, the word ‚"success‚" looming large in the foreground.