|
| |
 |  | Browse the collections below for NCTE resources, teaching strategies and professional readings on current “hot topics” in English language arts. Pulled from Council books, journals, web resources and more, these collections are designed to help you address specific challenges in your classroom.
The topics here are by no means comprehensive. We will be continuously adding additional topics and resources. If there is a topic you’d like to see addressed, please use the feedback form in the collections to make a request today.
|
Back to School
| The first weeks of school can set the tone for the rest of the year. Get things off to the best start with resources from this collection, which provides resources to help get the year off to a great start by building community and encouraging students to participate as reflective and creative members of a variety of literacy communities. |
Adolescent Literacy
| The literacy demands in fields like math, science and the social sciences require reading approaches different, but no less important than, the English language arts classroom. The lessons, professional reading and research included here address these issues. |
Grammar
| In this collection focused on the middle and secondary level find resources for ways to teach grammar within the context of your students’ reading, writing, and speaking so they retain what they learn and apply it later on in their own writing and speech. |
Elementary English Language Learners
| Choice, engagement and detail-rich learning experiences all describe characteristics of teaching that supports English language learners. This collection of lessons and readings illustrates how multiple educators have put these characteristics into practice. |
Secondary English Language Learners
| Learning in secondary classrooms presents a higher demand for students not yet fluent in academic English skills. This set of resources can be of support to English language arts educators, as well as ELL specialists and content teachers. |
College Research Paper
| Helping students discover that they can write research with their authentic voices is the challenge with introductory research writing. The following collection highlights the issues and provides multiple approaches to teaching the research paper. |
Classroom-Based Assessment
| Hear how others have woven classroom based assessments into their daily routines in meaningful ways. |
Reading and Writing on the Web
| Becoming literate in the ways of the Web is vital to our students. This collection provides resources that explore learning how to evaluate and navigate Internet resources as well as how to publish texts online, giving teachers the strategies to ensure students learn literacy skills that will serve them throughout their lives. |
Literacy Coaching
| Effective literacy coaches support teachers in becoming more thoughtful and knowledgeable about their instruction and help significantly improve student outcomes. The resources included here can support coaches and districts considering a coaching model, as well as the policymakers who legislate and fund such professional development efforts. |
Poetry
| Whether taught on its own or woven throughout the English curriculum, poetry offers students opportunities to engage with ideas, deepen language skills, stretch writing abilities, and share their own thoughts and emotions. |
Spelling
| Teaching students strategies for generating and correcting spelling is far more important than giving them the correct spelling of any particular word. Such strategies include writing the word multiple times and deciding which "looks right" or using spell check. This collection of teaching ideas and strategies is sure to introduce you to others. |
Early Literacy
| Experienced teachers of young learners seldom under-estimate their abilities, even when their literacy efforts are not yet conventional. This collection of lessons, professional readings, and web resources offers a detailed illustration of the youngest learners in action. |
Summer Reading and Learning
| Summer reading programs urge students to read during their summer vacations, developing and maintaining a lifelong habit of reading for pleasure. Further, such programs help students retain and sharpen literacy skills during the months that they are out of the classroom. |
Reading Literary Texts
| What makes literature special? We read literature to understand human experience across time and place. Although middle school and high school students may be familiar with literary genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama, many of them do not enjoy or fully understand what they read because they haven't yet learned strategies for reading a variety of literary texts. |
|
|
