2009 African American Read-In
Join over a million readers in February for the Twentieth National African American Read-In. The event is sponsored by the Black Caucus of NCTE and NCTE. For this year only, the Read-In has been extended for the entire month of February.
Teaching in the Changing World of 21st-Century Literacies
New literacies are fast becoming a large part of the educational landscape, as the 21st-Century Literacies Policy Research Brief released recently tells us. These 21st-Century Literacies resources provide some effective strategies for meeting the challenge of this new educational terrain.
Literacy through New Technology
Charles Bazerman discusses literacy through new technology advising it is more important to know how to understand, interpret and make sense of all the information we now have access to rather than learning the possibilities of expression.
Lesson Plans for Writing Now
NCTE's newest policy research brief "Writing Now" explores what writing means in our changing world. The brief defines key terms, debunks common myths about school-based writing, outlines our understanding of writing now, and shares research-based recommendations for effective writing instruction and assessment. For the next step, try any of these ReadWriteThink lesson plans, which all explore ways we write and teach writing now:
Creating Community through Writing
As students return to the classroom in the next month, they need to feel that they own the space and the learning that takes place in it. Foreground such ownership for students by collaboratively writing an owner's manual that describes the classroom's areas and procedures. The ReadWriteThink lesson Our Classroom: Writing an Owner's Manual has everything you need to get started.
Younger elementary students who are just learning to write can build community as they collaborate to establish classroom guidelines. The ReadWriteThink lesson Creating Class Rules: A Beginning to Creating Community focuses on a simple shared-writing activity to bring students together as they decide upon the structures for the classroom.
NCTE Consulting Network
Bring an experienced NCTE consultant to your school to engage your staff in a workshop or presentation on a variety of topics including early literacy, content literacy, 21st century literacy, reading, writing.
Literacy Teaching: Then and Now
See how this chart highlights changes in literacy instruction over the last twenty years. 
Literacy Workshop Organization
Conceptualize teaching strategies and literacy learning experiences that are common practices of many teachers with this chart.