Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books CD, Volume 1
Purchase this invaluable resource for book selection procedures featuring over 200 rationales.

Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books CD, Volume 2  Featuring over 100 rationales for teaching popular young adult and classic literature.
 

Tips for Writing Your Own Rationales:

SLATE STARTER SHEET: Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books
This 1994 Starter Sheet was designed to help teachers and English language arts departments to develop rationales.

How to Write a Rationale
Instructions include what, why, and how to develop a rationale.

Bridge to Terabithia Sample Rationale 

The Color Purple Sample Rationale
 

Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books (PDF of rationale index)
Please note:  NCTE’s Anti-Censorship efforts are currently only funded to provide a public service to members and nonmembers when they are facing challenges to literary works, films, and videos.   The list indicates whether the rationale is on CD 1 or CD 2; in our electronic file; or only available in print format.
The two CD collections of rationales are available for purchase(see links above).

To report a challenge, please fill out the Censorship Challenge Report http://www.ncte.org/forms/censorship/.

Instructions on how to write a rationale and a couple of sample rationales are available at http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/censorship/five/108603.htm.