Building Your Professional Development Community
The best professional development often relies on the teacher-to-teacher method – teachers sharing their successes and challenges with one another …
Field Notes: Let’s Talk Taxes
As a national association of and for English teachers, it’s our job at NCTE to keep an eye out for …
A Community Literacy Narrative for National Poetry Month
This post is written by NCTE member, Steven Alvarez. Eleven-year-old Felipe created a poem portfolio fashioned as pages stapled into …
Submit Your Ideas for New Content on ReadWriteThink.org!
We’re in the planning stages for next calendar year, and we’re looking to you—our users—for new content ideas. What have …
The Four R’s of Summer
Can you believe it? The first day of July will be here before we know it! Here are a few …
A Look Back at NCTE Reads, Week 3
This post was written by NCTE member Vikki Orepitan. The third week of NCTE Reads focused on Chapters 5 and …
Using Pressure Maps to Help Middle Grades Readers Develop Nuanced Understandings of LGBTQ+ Characters
This post was written by guest authors Michelle Hopf and Ryan Schey. As a middle-grade English teacher (Michelle) and a …
Connected Educator Month, Week 1
Connected Educator Month kicks off October 1! As shared in an earlier post, NCTE is a theme leader on the topic of …
A Weeklong Unit to Explore Poetry Forms
This post was written by NCTE member Jessica Covert, reprinted with permission from Edutopia. Teaching poetry is daunting for high …
Comics Are Real Reading
Some “shelfies” our friends took during Banned Books Week showing their support for comics…