Thematic Educator Guide: Teaching Civic Engagement

Join us on Monday, April 24th at 2:30pm ET (1:30pm CT) to learn how to use graphic novels in the classroom! This free, one-hour webinar will feature award-winning creators: Shing Yin Khor, Kevin McCloskey, and Chad Sell, and will be moderated by Eric Hand, teacher and literacy consultant. Learn more here and explore resources for our graphic novels. Watch the recording!  

April is National Poetry Month, reminding us of poetry’s important role in our culture and in our classrooms. We are celebrating by showcasing a few titles that highlight the lives and work of inspiring poets.   Discover more titles Poetry Titles for Elementary School

Join Penguin Random House Education at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Anaheim, CA (November 17th – November 20th). Visit us in Booth #825 to browse books by grade level and subject area, pick up free teacher resources, enter daily sweepstakes, and learn more about our classroom collections. Don’t miss our General

As the school year begins, teachers and students are facing challenges to their intellectual freedom like never before. From state legislation to executive orders to school district policies to administrator actions, book bans are at an all-time high, and teacher shortages are affecting every corner of the nation. But as a K-12 educator, you do

Get excited for all the new friends and fun to come this school year with a free weeknight virtual storytime event from Brightly! Wherever your students are learning this year, this special storytime event will get everyone excited for all the adventures the new school year will bring. This hour-long event features authors sharing stories

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (García, 2009; García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

The Penguin Random House Elementary Education Collection features outstanding fiction, non-fiction, and picture books from the Penguin Young Reader’s and Random House Children’s publishing divisions, as well as children’s publishers distributed by Penguin Random House. Explore online or download this valuable resource to discover great books in specific topic areas such as: Leveled Readers, Inclusive

April is National Poetry Month, reminding us of poetry’s important role in our culture and in our classrooms. We are celebrating by appreciating a few titles that highlight the lives and work of inspiring poets.   Discover more titles Poetry Titles for Elementary School

According to a report in Chalkbeat, elementary school students at P.S. 125 in Harlem recently read The 1619 Project: Born on the Water and had the opportunity to meet with the books’ co-authors, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson. Born on the Water is a lyrical picture book in verse that chronicles the consequences of slavery and

Watch Reading the World: Nurturing a Global Perspective for All Students, a conversation featuring Laura Robb and Luz Yadira Herrera here! Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. – Plato   “The only way to read the world is by traveling the world!”

English for Everyone is a smart, simple, and highly visual language course designed to help anyone of any starting level to learn English. Though originally created for learners self-studying at home, ESL teacher Katherine Fedor of Virginia Beach City Public Schools has seen great success in using the series as a classroom resource for children

Penguin Random House is celebrating a century of the Newbery Medal! Since 1922, lovers of children’s literature — children and adults alike — anxiously await the announcement of the Newbery Medal for the “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.” This anniversary commemorates not only a century of captivating books, it celebrates the longevity