As a professional organization, NCTE is committed to the development of excellent literacy education through all grade levels. Included here is information and resources focusing on Early Literacy.
English Language Learners in Literacy Workshops
Marsha Riddle Buly, a mainstream classroom teacher who became a reading specialist and then a specialist in bilingual/ELL education, shows how reading, writing, and language workshops can be used to help language learners in mainstream K–8 classrooms.
Also, check out the On Demand Web seminar featuring Marsha Riddle Buly on 3 Strategies for Reaching Language Learners in Literacy Workshops.
Becoming Writers in the Elementary Classroom: Visions and Decisions
Katie Van Sluys demonstrates how to (re)claim our professional practice to ensure that young people have the opportunity to become competent, constantly growing writers who use writing to think, communicate, and pose as well as solve problems.
Teaching Phonics in Context
Through myriad classroom vignettes, experienced educators David Hornsby and Lorraine Wilson show just how phonics is taught and learned in literacy-rich classrooms.
Also, check out the On Demand Web seminar featuring David and Lorraine on Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom: Teaching Phonics in Context.
Learning to Read the Numbers
Phyllis and David Whitin show how critical readers dig beneath the surface of data to understand how numbers are constructed by authors to portray a certain version of reality.
NCTE On Demand Web seminars are a convenient and meaningful form of professional development. They provide the recorded version of the virtual event and include all audio, video, chat discussion, and actions within the presentation.
Lesson Plans from ReadWriteThink
These classroom-tested lesson plans provide ready resources for teachers working with students from kindergarten to high school.
Pathways
is a yearlong professional development experience that helps teachers, schools, and districts address the unique needs of learners with content on key areas in elementary education.
Bring an experienced NCTE consultant specializing in Early Literacy to your school to engage your staff in a workshop or presentation today!
The Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA) is an assembly that supports teachers of young children with a strong emphasis on promoting thoughtful practices that enhance the teaching and learning of young children within and across diverse communities.
For information, visit http://www.eceassembly.blogspot.com/ or contact Chair, Vivian Vasquez, Gray Hall 220, American University, Washington, DC 20016.
Join the ECEA at the NCTE Annual Convention for the Day of Early Childhood. This day features sessions specifically for educators of children in preschool and early elementary and is devoted to issues of teaching, learning, and young children.
NCTE Guidelines and Position Statements
Read Together: Parents and Educators Working Together for Literacy
Learning to read doesn't happen magically. Parents and teachers play important roles in developing young readers. Supporting a child is best accomplished when parents and teachers share common methods and basic understandings about the reading process.
Position Statement on Interdisciplinary Learning, Pre-K to Grade 4
Several major national subject-matter organizations developed guidelines and outline the principles that should guide the implementation of an integrated curriculum.
Policy Research Briefs
The NCTE Squire Office on Policy Research has published several Policy Briefs which summarize and present the relevant research findings on a variety of issues important to education today.