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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Buy the CD today! On Demand Web seminars provide the recorded version of the virtual event and include all audio, video, chat discussion, and actions within the presentation.
Shakespeare Resources
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Mary Ellen Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
Reading Shakespeare with All Our Students
View the On Demand Web Seminar from Mary Ellen Dakin and Christina Porter that focuses on the collaborative reading of Shakespeare’s plays.
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and Production
This On Demand Web seminar offers strategies that enable the teacher to hand off Shakespeare’s seventeenth century text to twenty-first century readers.
Teaching Julius Caesar: A Differentiated Approach
Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers solutions for bringing Julius Caesar to life for all students.
Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach
Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild Hawks, and Robin Follet offer a differentiated approach to teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, including lesson plans focused on key scenes, close readers geared toward different levels of readiness, and scaffolded reading activities.
Lesson Plan Resources
With a fresh look and many exciting new features, the redesigned ReadWriteThink.org offers a wider audience more opportunities to find just the literacy resources they need and to share their thoughts and experiences with other community members.
National Gallery of Writing
There's no time like the present to submit to the Gallery and to be thinking about how you'll celebrate the National Day on Writing October 20, 2011.
The National Gallery of Writing houses all kinds of writing from all walks of life and highlights the remarkable variety of writing we engage in everyday. Submit your writing today!
Grammar
Use these grammar 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
Celebrate Poetry Month with these NCTE resources on poetry.
Adolescent Literacy
Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief
This NCTE Policy Research Brief offers updates on research with implications for policy decisions that affect teaching and learning in the area of adolescent literacy. 
NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform
Read how this document delineates the problems of adolescent literacy and outlines reforms NCTE has identified as necessary to address them.
Additional Adolescent Literacy Resources
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 NCTE resources focus on supporting students' cultural language and identity as they work to learn a second language.
Teaching in the Changing World of 21st-Century Literacies