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Celebrate your graduation or a recent graduate by opening a door to ELA classroom resources! NCTE membership unlocks access to the latest teaching tools, research, book recommendations, and more. Plus, members get a professional network of educators for mentorship and support.
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Build book knowledge and classroom libraries. NCTE’s Build Your Stack® initiative offers trusted book recommendations from colleagues with deep expertise.

Connect with thousands of fellow ELA educators and scholars this fall in Denver. New this year: a content strand designed specifically for early career educators.
Practical and Flexible Literacy Teaching Tools
Are you looking for some inspiration to make your lesson plans pop this year? Or are you interested in incorporating new tools to your teaching? You’re in luck—regardless of which section you teach, NCTE has practical, innovative, and flexible literacy teaching tools to suit your needs while benefiting your students.
Classroom Corridors
Classroom Corridors: Expertise and Inspiration from Elementary Teachers is a multimodal must-have for NCTE members, featuring classroom stories, implementation strategies, and downloadable resources.
Intellectual Freedom Resources for NCTE Members
NCTE knows that you want to provide learning experiences that allow students to see themselves in the world around them. Students’ curiosity is sparked when they read stories that represent their own life experiences, which is the key to building a thirst for reading and inquiry. The NCTE book rationale database is available to all members and provides insight on specific titles in the ELA classroom.
NCTE Books
NCTE books focus on current issues and problems in teaching, research findings and their application to classrooms, ideas for teaching all aspects of English, and other topics. Start your personal collection, or give one as a gift!
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Classroom Design for Student Agency
Classrooms should be spaces where every child feels safe to bring their whole self to school. This book shows how to set up preK–grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice.

Joyful Literacies in Secondary English Language Arts
Discover the transformative power of joyful literacies with this lively guide for secondary English language arts educators. How can teachers keep students engaged amidst constraints like book bans and misguided public debates? By infusing joy into the ELA curriculum through units, lessons, and activities that make students feel seen and heard, and that lead to authentic and empowering intellectual inquiry.