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Featuring
NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform
 | This document delineates the problems of adolescent literacy and outlines reforms NCTE has identified as necessary to address them. |
Educational Policy Collection: Adolescent and Young Adult Literacy
| This NCTE collection gathers important studies, descriptions of key literacy initiatives, useful program and practice guidelines, and practical teaching and curriculum resources for school leaders and secondary teachers. |
Teaching Resources
Using Movies in the Classroom
| George Lucas was born this month, and that makes it a great time to think about how we can use films in the classroom, whether we analyze and explore existing videos or we ask students to step behind the camera and take on the filmmaker's role. |
Plan Now for Summer Reading
| May is Get Caught Reading Month (G), and it's time to start making your plans to encourage students to keep reading once classes are over. Try these resources to get your students involved in independent reading all summer long.
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Summer Activities to Keep Kids Learning
| Share learning activities and resources with families, tutors, summer school teachers, and other literacy volunteers to help keep kids learning all summer long. ReadWriteThink's Learning Beyond the Classroom section provides summer activities that educators can complete with their own children or share with families looking for ways to support summer learning. Don't miss the site's new features, including new podcasts and videos! |
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 Announcements
 Richard W. Halle Award Nominations Now Being Accepted!
2008 Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines
2008 Orbis Pictus Award Announced
Leadership
2008 NCTE Election Candidates
Middle Level Blog
Middle Books
Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of English Language Arts, 2006 Edition
 | The 2006 version of the Guidelines, prepared by the NCTE Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification, outlines the basic foundational elements of effective English teacher preparation programs and describes how these programs might provide support for candidates when they graduate into their own classrooms. NOTE: This document is available as a FREE, printable PDF. Hard copies are not available for purchase.
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Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
 | Edited by James Bucky Carter, this collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit) in ways that enrich students' understanding of both and that thoroughly engage them in literacy. |
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