Join The Reading & Writing Project team at NCTE! The NCTE Annual Convention is the premier annual event for English language arts and literacy educators. Learn from experts and participate in various sessions on a range of topics that will inspire your teaching. Meet educators from around the country and enjoy social and cultural events, explore the publisher booths in the Exhibit Hall, and celebrate your colleagues in the awards ceremony. Share your challenges and victories with a community of English language arts professionals who will support your work in the future. Don’t miss this chance to join fellow English language arts teachers and educators at the NCTE Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
Here are a few of the sessions our team will be presenting:
November 22, 11:00-12:15 PM EST: Decodable Texts for K-2 and Perhaps Some Upper Elementary Readers
November 22, 11:00-12:15 PM EST: Bringing Kids’ Out-of-School Literacy Lives to the Forefront to Boost Engagement and Connection
November 22, 2:45-3:15 PM EST: Building Knowledge, Cultivating Citizenship: Bringing Together Two Important Goals for Elementary Education
November 23, 8:15-9:30 AM EST: Creating a Deep Culture of Writing in Secondary Schools: Practices That Create Community, Make Writing Great, and Invite Writing across the School Day
November 23, 2:45-4:00 PM EST: Standing for–Indeed, Fighting for – Teacher Professionalism and the Right to Teach Responsively
November 23, 4:15-5:30 PM EST: Heart Matters: The Role of Teachers as Agents, Common Place Texts, and Critical Thinking in Growing Writers
November 24, 8:15-8:45 AM EST: Amplify English Language Learners’ Vocabulary and Language through Talk, Texts, Play, and Joy
November 24, 10:30-11:45 AM EST: Harnessing Research to Make Grammar Instruction Joyful and Empowering for Students
Tailor Your Structures and Methods to Provide Students with IEPs What They Need 
EdWeb: Decodable Texts: Tap Into the Power to Support Beginning Readers
December Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study
Building a Toolkit to Support Small Group Instruction in Reading and Writing
Reading Complex Texts Closely, in Ways that Allow Readers to Answer Text Dependent Questions, to Write about Their Reading, and to be at Home with Complex Texts
January Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study
Analyzing Spelling, Phonics, and Conventions By Looking at Writing–Then Teaching with New Clarity as a Result
Making Vocabulary Instruction Practical, Powerful, and Playful, All Across the Day
Tackle the Hard Parts of Independent Reading: Giving Specific Feedback When You Don’t Know the Book, Holding Readers Accountable, Raising Reading Levels, Igniting Enthusiasm
Toolkits to Support Small Group Work in Reading and Writing
