2016 Convention Proposal FAQ
Are you considering submitting a proposal for the 2016 NCTE Annual Convention? You should! We’ve been getting some questions about …
The Desire for Literacy 6: Guinea Pigs
This is the sixth of eight excerpts we are offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the …
Tis the Season to Use ReadWriteThink Interactive Tools and Mobile Apps!
The last days of 2015 are here, and it’s likely that your days in the classroom for this are even fewer! …
Literacy Advocates Heartened by LEARN Act’s Inclusion in ESSA
On December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The language from the Literacy Education …
Laurie Halse Anderson Speaks for Intellectual Freedom
On November 21, 2015, at the NCTE Convention, Laurie Halse Anderson (pictured on the left with Joan Kaywell on the …
Screenwriting as an ELA Exercise
Our November 2015 English Journal offers the article “Lights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
Join us for a retrospective #nctechat this Sunday
We hope you’ll join us on Twitter this Sunday at 8 PM ET to reflect on “Literacy Highlights from the …
The Desire for Literacy 5: Just Because You Can’t Read
This is the fifth of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …
Student-led Inquiry
Learners with agency can “intentionally make things happen by [their] actions,” and “agency enables people to play a part in …
A New Kind of Parent-Child Bonding—Homework Help
The following essay by NCTE Vice President Jocelyn Chadwick was originally published on the Parent Toolkit produced by NBC News …