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- National Council of Teachers of English resource--Learning Beyond the Classroom Posted 7/09
- Guidance on Locally Required Summer Reading Assignments Posted 6/09 PDF(
41.8 KB) - Adjustments to High School Testing Procedures to Address Weather-Related School Closings Posted 3/09
- April is National Poetry Month Posted 3/09
- More American Adults Read Literature According to New NEA Study Posted 2/09
- National Day on Writing: October 20, 2009 Posted 2/09
- Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel Posted 1/09
- Tips for Parents from the National Council of Teachers of English Posted 1/09
National Council of Teachers of English resource--Learning Beyond the Classroom
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and ReadWriteThink have developed a Learning Beyond the Classroom online resource, which includes resources and activities to help children and teens explore reading and writing after school, during vacation, or all summer long.
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/
Adjustments to High School Testing Procedures to Address Weather-Related School Closings on January 28, 2009
For an update on a new set of high school testing options for students
who were impacted by recent weather-related school closings, please see
the following statement released by Senior Deputy Commissioner Johanna Duncan-Poitier.
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sar/weather.pdf ( 67.19 KB)
April is National Poetry Month!
National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets
in 1996. Read-Write-Think offers classroom activities to celebrate National
Poetry Month, including lesson plans, web links, and texts
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=478.
Please see the Academy of American Poets National Poetry Month website
for additional information, including resources and programs http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41.
More Adults Read Literature According to NEA Study
According to Reading on the Rise, a new report from the National
Endowment for the Arts, "For the first time in the history of the
survey - conducted five times since 1982 - the overall rate at which adults
read literature (novels and short stories, plays, or poems) rose by seven
percent." To read more about this report, visit the NEA's site at http://arts.endow.gov/news/news09/ReadingonRise.html.
National Day on Writing: October 20, 2009
To draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing we engage
in and help make better writers from all walks of life aware of their craft, National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is working to establish October
20, 2009, as the National Day on Writing. NCTE will build an archive of writing
submissions throughout 2009 in the National Gallery of Writing. To learn more
about how to participate in this event, please see the NCTE
website at http://www.ncte.org/action/dayonwriting.
Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
The National Early Literacy Panel's primary goal was to identify interventions,
parenting activities, and instructional practices that promote
the development of children’s early literacy skills. This report,
which focuses on early literacy development, can be accessed athttp://nifl.gov/nifl/NELP/NELPreport.html
Tips for Parents from the National
Council of Teachers of English: Helping Your Teenager to Write Better
This "Tips for Parents" sheet from the National Council
of Teachers of English includes examples of how parents can help
their teenager write better. http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Positions/tips-parents.pdf