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Teaching is a profession that requires ongoing professional development and learning. This ongoing learning can take place in professional learning communities, structured professional development settings, and literacy coaching contexts. This department highlights the ongoing professional development of literacy teachers.

Teaching is a profession that requires ongoing professional development and learning. This ongoing learning can take place in professional learning communities, structured professional development settings, and literacy coaching contexts. This department highlights the ongoing professional development of literacy teachers.

A book introduction during small‐group instruction may seem like a simple task, but it actually involves multiple layers of decision making. The authors examine the why, how, and what of book introductions as a means of supporting students’ growth as readers.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) offer opportunities for educators to collaboratively inquire and study innovative literacy practices. However, scheduling conflicts and other challenges often interrupt or create barriers for PLCs. This article provides suggestions for integrating technology into a face‐to‐face PLC as a means of supporting participants as they think and learn together over time. The article includes descriptions of four technological platforms: VoiceThread, TodaysMeet, Poll Everywhere, and Blendspace and how each of these platforms can enhance a traditional PLC.

Teaching is a profession that requires ongoing professional development and learning. This ongoing learning can take place in professional learning communities, structured professional development settings, and literacy coaching contexts. This department highlights the ongoing professional development of literacy teachers.

This article highlights considerations for teachers when selecting and using e‐books and e‐book applications (apps) with beginning readers during guided and independent reading. A framework for examining e‐books and e‐book apps is suggested, and several apps and related digital features are described. The article also includes an overview of children's emergent and early reading behaviors, the types of texts that support these behaviors, and examples of how digital texts could influence beginning reading instruction. Also discussed are the ways in which e‐books and e‐book apps can enhance the home–school connection and support English learners.

[...]when taking anecdotal records, it is important for teachers to consider their word choices and the ways in which the use of certain language may inadvertently position students in teachers' minds. Organizing and managing anecdotal records One of the biggest challenges for educators is managing the many demands on their time (Sparapani & Perez 2015). [...]it is incredibly important to establish a system for taking and using anecdotal records that is easy to implement and stick to. [...]of this observation, the goal for Sophia would be fluent reading with appropriate pauses, and the strategy would be to have her practice reading without pointing to the words. [...]children receive more-tailored instruction as teachers are better informed about each child's progress.

Teaching is a profession that requires ongoing professional development and learning. This ongoing learning can take place in professional learning communities, structured professional development settings, and literacy coaching contexts. This department highlights the ongoing professional development of literacy teachers.

An increasingly popular medium for locating classroom resources is social media, a platform with the potential to enhance professional learning as teachers network and share ideas (Wenger, Trayner, & de Laat 2011). For those early childhood education students and educators who may be less familiar with developmentally appropriate practice for young children, standards and position statements published by reputable associations and professional organizations in the field can shed light on the appropriateness of a pin's content. Keeping this in mind, a user searching for pins related to early literacy might choose key words like print-rich environment, high-quality/ award-winning children's books, or multicultural children's literature.

If teachers do not have access to mobile technology, they can upload digital pictures, scanned work samples, and other documents to the desktop version of Traditional paper-based portfolios have long been used to document individual children's learning and development in early childhood classrooms (Opitz & Ford 2006). Like a traditional portfolio, a digital portfolio houses children's work samples and artifacts, but the use of Web 2.0 collaboration tools enables teachers to save and share children's work digitally.