The Middle Level Section of NCTE is the home for middle school and junior high educators, administrators and teacher educators interested in the area of adolescent literacy in the English language arts classroom.
NCTE Annual Convention
Join us in Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2012 NCTE Annual Convention, November 14-18.
Submit a program proposal today!
WLU Program Proposals Accepted
The Whole Language Umbrella of NCTE (WLU) invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Literacies for All Summer Institute, "Reclaiming Joy in Teaching, Learning, and Research." Plan now to join us July 19-21 in St. Louis, Missouri.
NCTE Edwin A. Hoey Award
Sponsored by Weekly Reader, this award recognizes exceptional English language arts teachers of grades 5-8 who have demonstrated excellence in teaching English language arts and inspired a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning in their students.
Deadline February 1. Read more and submit a nomination today!
Promising Young Writers
Promising Young Writers is a school-based writing program that stimulates and recognizes student's writing talents and emphasizes the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students. 2012 PYW Brochure. Electronic entry form. Entry deadline February 15, 2012.
The new editorial team of Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp give NCTE members additional Web-only content and podcasts featuring the authors. Check out Voices from the Middle today!
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This event is held in the month of February with the goal to make the celebration of African American literacy a traditional part of Black History Month activities. Host a Read-In in your school, church, community, or place of business---anywhere you can sit and read a book!. Learn more here.
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.
Humor Writing: Activities for the English Classroom
Bruce Goebel offers more than 150 activities you can use to help students develop writing skills in voice, word choice, style, and organization while exploring a variety of genres.
Learning to Write for Readers: Using Brain-Based Strategies
This brain-based approach to writing instruction by John T. Crow will help you build from the tremendous storehouse of knowledge students already possess about language to help them learn what they need to know about writing.
John Crow is a member of NCTE's Professional Development Consulting Network. Learn more about how you can bring John to your school or district today!
Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change
Jeffrey Wilhelm and Bruce Novak challenge business as usual in the language arts. They call for nothing short of a revolution in our understanding of the aims and methods of the English classroom, showing what English can do for democratic life, inside and outside of classrooms.
Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: Grades 6-8
This book by Tonya Perry and Rebecca Manery reinforces a focus on student learning by demonstrating ways of addressing the Common Core State Standards in grades 6-8 while also adhering to NCTE principles of effective teaching.
Virtual Conference recordings also available for Grades 6-8.
Check out these additional common core resources today!
NCTE celebrates 100 years of leadership in literacy education. Visit the Centennial website and read "NCTE's Middle Level Section: Its Origins," on the NCTE Archives at the University of Illinois website.