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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.

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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.

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Visit the Member Engagement Hub. NCTE is the organization we are today because of the expertise, time, and energy of our members. What role will you play in moving the profession forward?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: An Updated and Integrated Approach

Do more than just teach students to follow grammar rules. With this important book by your side, empower students to shape their own narratives and seize control of their writing destinies

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