Books
NCTE books focus on current issues and opportunities in teaching, research findings and their application to classrooms, and ideas for teaching all aspects of English.
NCTE Books Program
For over eighty-five years, the NCTE Books Program has published resources for teachers’ professional development at every level, elementary through college.
NCTE books focus on current issues and problems in teaching, research findings and their application to classrooms, ideas for teaching all aspects of English, and other topics.
Recent Titles
Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
Burkins and Sibberson show how to set up preK–grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice.
Teaching Literacy Online: Engaging, Analyzing, and Producing in Multiple Media
Recipient of the 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research-Publication, Teaching Literacy Online by Rochelle L. Rodrigo and Catrina Mitchum is a practical guide for secondary and college teachers of English in digital and online environments.
Cultivating Young Multilingual Writers: Nurturing Voices and Stories in and beyond the Classroom Walls
Flores and Fránquiz offer ideas for K–5 educators who are interested in cultivating young writers by designing and facilitating writing instruction that begins with the resources that students bring to the classrooms from their families, homes, and communities. Principles in Practice imprint
Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students
Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college.
Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justice
Mary E. Styslinger adopts and adapts foundational reading and writing workshop structures to help middle and secondary teachers more effectively teach democratic concepts and justice in their English language arts classrooms.
Restorying Young Adult Literature: Expanding Students’ Perspectives with Digital Texts
Winner of a 2024 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research
Building upon NCTE’s 2018 Preparing Teachers with Knowledge of Children’s and Young Adult Literature position statement, this book spotlights how teachers and students can use digital tools and technologies to reread, rewrite, and restory young adult literature today. Principles in Practice imprint
Word Work: Practical Tools to Empower Language and Literacy Learning in the High School Classroom
Simmons explores how students can use linguistic tools to enhance their own reading comprehension and argumentative writing.
Literacies Before Technologies: Making Digital Tools Matter for Middle Grades Learners
This practical book brings together coauthors Troy Hicks and Jill Runstrom with the voices of ten additional educators (Grades 4–9) to explore applications of NCTE’s Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom position statement in real classrooms. Principles in Practice imprint
Critical Rural Pedagogy: Connecting College Students with American Literature
Drawing on her experiences in her American literature survey course at Centralia College, a small, rural, community college, author Sharon Mitchler argues for a reconfiguration of critical pedagogy to empower and engage American literature students at rural community colleges.
Bestsellers
Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students
Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college.
Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep: 50 Award-Winning Children’s Book Authors Share the Secret of Engaging Writing
Some of today’s most celebrated nonfiction writers for children share how their writing processes reflect their passions, personalities, beliefs, and experiences in the world. Editor Melissa Stewart offers a wide range of tips, tools, teaching strategies, and activity ideas to help students learn to craft rich, unique prose.
Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom
The authors show how English teachers can think and plan using a restorative justice lens to address issues of student disconnection and alienation; adult and youth well-being in schools; and inequity and racial justice through writing, reading, speaking, and action. Principles in Practice imprint
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom, 2nd Edition
For this revised edition, Dean worked with high school teachers to refine, reorganize, and update the material to better support classroom teachers dedicated to teaching not just the process of writing but also the strategies that help students learn to write effectively throughout their lives.
NCTE Books Program Staff
Colin Murcray
Director of Publishing
Kurt Austin
Senior Books Editor
Cynthia Gomez
Senior Editor/Digital Publishing
Emily Gilbert
Editorial Assistant
Contact
booksteam@ncte.org