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 28, Issue 1 (2012) Literacy, Literature, and the Arts
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
Nancy Patterson
Transmediation and the Transparent Eye-ball: Approaching Literature through Different Ways of Knowing
Allison E. Carey
Building Meaning Through Metaphor: Using the Arts to Deepen Understanding in Oedipus the King
Brigitte Knudson
Seeing the Value: Why the Visual Arts Have a Place in the English Language Arts Classroom
Robert M. Jordan and Michael DiCicco
Lessons Learned: Reflections in Voice and Writing
Nancy Patterson and Dale Schriemer
Imagining Insects: Integrating the Fine Arts into Writing, Literature, and Science through Projectbased Learning Activities
Michael J. Letts and Kia Jane Richmond
Connecting with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners through Music
Ileana Cortés Santiago
Standards, Not Standardization: Orchestrating Aesthetic Educational Experiences
Christy M. Moroye and P. Bruce Uhrmacher
Of Standardized Knowability
Matthew S. Brennan
