Elementary at NCTE
Featured Elementary Blog Posts
Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School
This blog post from NCTE member Wintre Foxworth Johnson reminds us that “Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School.”
Update Your Name Stories Read-Aloud
This text list shares a list of alternative options for titles about names and identity.
Featured Elementary Publications
Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
Lynsey Burkins and Franki Sibberson show how to set up preK–grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice.
Cultivating Young Multilingual Writers: Nurturing Voices and Stories in and beyond the Classroom Walls
Tracey T. Flores and María E. Fránquiz offer ideas for K–5 educators who are interested in cultivating young writers by designing and facilitating writing instruction that begins with the resources that students bring to the classrooms from their families, homes, and communities.
2024 NCTE-NCTM Joint Conference on Elementary Literacy and Mathematics
New Orleans • June 17–19, 2024
Learn More InformationLanguage Arts
This is the premiere journal for the teaching of language arts, focusing primarily on issues concerning children of preschool through middle school age. This peer-reviewed publication draws a diverse readership of teachers, researchers, teacher educators, policymakers, administrators, and all those with an interest in language, literacy, literature, and culture.
Elementary Awards
Learn about these awards recognizing educators and journal articles and how you can nominate for them:
Leadership
The Elementary Section Steering Committee (ESSC) members are elected by the NCTE membership each year to a four-year term. The Chair is elected from within the ESSC to a two-year term and serves on the NCTE Executive Committee representing the interests of the elementary membership.
NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT)
The PDCRT project, initiated by the Affirmative Action Committee of the Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) was developed to create a space within NCTE to support early childhood Educators of Color and educators who teach Children of Color, children who are emerging bi/multilinguals, and children from low-income households in studying about culturally relevant pedagogies and generating, implementing, documenting, evaluating, assessing, and disseminating classroom practices and process reflections from work done in preK to fifth-grade classrooms.
Early Childhood Education Assembly
The Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA) supports teachers of young children with a strong emphasis on promoting thoughtful practices that enhance the teaching and learning of young children within and across diverse communities.
Children's Literature Assembly
The Children’s Literature Assembly (CLA) provides a forum, undertakes programs and projects of special concern to people interested in children’s literature, promotes the field of children’s literature, and serves as a clearinghouse for information on children’s literature.
The Elementary Section Steering Committee of NCTE is committed to the pursuit of justice and equity. We believe that in an open democratic society we cannot argue for democracy and humanity unless we create for our children a more just and caring world. To this end we are dedicated to the support and development of emancipatory pedagogies that counter official policies and mandates that narrow the possibilities for the teaching of the language arts in public schools. We believe that it is essential that we resist any attempt that is made to separate school based language arts programs from the socio-cultural realities of children’s everyday lives. Our task is to support the work of teachers as they work closely with their students and their families to build classrooms where everyone has an opportunity to participate in the conversation with a renewed consciousness of worth and possibility of their own language use and the literacies that they share.
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