Welcome to the Language Arts Journal of Michigan website. The Language Arts Journal of Michigan is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English as a service to educators interested in literacy and the English language arts at all instructional levels. LAJM is published bi-annually. Its contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the Council or its members.
How to use this site: Authors may use the menu on the right to find information and links for submitting work. Reviewers will also find information about accessing and reviewing manuscripts in the menu to the right. Visitors may browse full text articles that have been in publication for 18 months or more as well as a featured article from the most current issues. Subscribers may view the full collection of LAJM content with their log in.
Current Issue: Volume 27, Issue 1 (2011) Past, Present, Future: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
Table of Contents
Editors' Message
Nancy DeFrance, Mary Fahrenbruck, Nancy Patterson, and Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle
Using Standards as an Opportunity for Teacher Reflection Revisiting the "Best Practices" Debate
Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer
Selling Literacy: A Young Teacher's TaIe of Getting (and Keeping) Her Students Excited about Text
Jianna Taylor
Moving to Online Literature Discussions: Putting a New Twist on a Practice Tried and True
Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle
Four Decades Ago: Learning from Mina Shaughnessy
Gregory Shafer
Teaching Writing Today: Creating Writers, Not Just Students-Who-Write
Bean Kinney Klusendorf
Investigating Critical Numeracy
Phyllis Whitin and David Whitin
From Consuming to Producing: The Potential of Preservice Teacher Scholarship in English Teacher Preparation
Sarah Hochstetler
MiTech Here Come the Ten Dollar Tablets
Robert Rozema
President's Message
Jennifer Swisher-Carroll
