Upcoming NCTE Web Seminars
Plan now to join NCTE in these Web Seminars!
These virtual events are a convenient and meaningful form of professional development. Browse this page for upcoming web seminar topics, schedule, descriptions, and more!
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Did you know . . .
The July issue of School Talk is a tribute to Donald H. Graves and includes articles by two former recipients of the NCTE Donald H. Graves Award, Ganna Maymind and Lisa Cleaveland.
Grammar
Use these 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.
Poetry
NCTE resources on poetry can be found here.
English Language Learners
English language instruction continues to be a hot topic in the news--from achievement gaps to funding and professional development for teachers. These resources focus on supporting students' cultural language and identity as they work to learn a second language.
Writing
Check out these Writing Resources:
- This NCTE Policy Research Brief, Writing Now!
- The postion statement, NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
- What we know about writing in the Early Grades, K-2 and Intermediate Grades, 3-5
- "Nurturing Our Very Youngest Writers," School Talk, January 2009
- "Looking Closely: Teaching Writing/Creating Writers," School Talk, October 2008
- "Writing Workshop," Language Arts, November 2004
- The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And they’re all hard parts)
- The NCTE National Gallery of Writing