Middle Level Resources - Previous Revision

Adolescent Literacy

• The Adolescent Literacy 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, delineates the problems of adolescent literacy and outlines reforms NCTE has identified as necessary to address them.
• Adolescents and Digital Literacies by Sara Kajder
• Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading by Deborah Appleman
• Reading and Writing and Teens, by Cathy Fleischer
• What Works in Writing Instruction by Deborah Dean
• Reading for Learning by Heather Lattimer
• Humor Writing: Activities for the English Classroom by Bruce Goebel
• What we know about writing in Grades 6-8
• Grade 6-8 Virtual Conference: Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards
• Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: Grades 6-8 by Tonya Perry and Rebecca Manery
• The NCTE National Gallery of Writing

NCTE Web Seminars

These virtual events are a convenient and meaningful form of professional development.  On Demand Web seminars provide the recorded version of the virtual event and include all audio, video, chat discussion, and actions within the presentation.

Read the Journal

Voices from the Middle offers articles on research and best practices in middle level reading, writing, speaking, and listening in the visual and language arts. Our mission is to be the cornerstone for the ongoing professional development of language arts educators.  Read the latest issue today!

Lesson Plans

ReadWriteThink.org  offers a wide audience opportunities to find just the literacy resources they need and to share their thoughts and experiences with other community members.  

Grammar
Use these NCTE 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
Check out these NCTE poetry resources including books, lesson plans, Poetry Award and more!

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.

21st-Century Literacies

• Pathways for 21st Century Literacies, NCTE's professional development program 
• NCTE 21st-Century Literacies Policy Research Brief
• "Merging Literacy and Technology," Voices from the Middle, March 2010
• Adolescents and Digital Literacies by Sara Kajder
• Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies by Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan

These additional 21st-Century Literacies resources provide some effective strategies for meeting the challenge of this new educational terrain.

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