Great ELA Resources

National Council of Teachers of English

International Literacy Association
Links to Children’s Choices and Young Adults’ Choices Booklists, where children young adults evaluate books and write reviews of their favorites.

Massachusetts Reading Association
www.massreading.org

The English Companion Ning
Social network where English teachers meet to help each other

The OWL at Purdue
Free Writing Help and Teaching Resources. Includes APA Formatting and Style Guide.

American Library Association
Links to many Book, Print, & Media awards

Frequently Challenged Books

National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Censorship Center
Offers advice, helpful documents, and other support to teachers faced with challenges to texts or teaching methods used in their classrooms and schools. Guidelines on how to write a Rationale for selection of a text.

The Public Broadcasting Service

U.S. Department of Education


Literacy Journals

International Literacy Association
Links to The Reading Teacher (published for teachers of students up to age 12) and
the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (published for teachers of older learners)

The ALAN Review
Archives of past issues here:

English Journal
Official publication of the Secondary Section of NCTE

Language Arts
Official journal of the Elementary Section of NCTE

Voices from the Middle
Official journal of the Middle/Junior High Section of NCTE

VOYA: Voice of Young Advocates
The Library Magazine Serving Those Who Serve Young Adults

School Library Journal
The world’s largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens

Hornbook
Publications about books for children and young adults

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
One of leading children's book review journals for school and public librarians
See especially Blue Ribbon Lists

Scholastic
Teaching resources, student activities, and information on books and authors

The Lion and the Unicorn
Theme- and genre-centered journal of international scope committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children

The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books
An electronic journal about children's literature

Publisher’s Weekly
News and reviews from the publishing world

Great YA Lit Blogs

Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
A blog by Manhattan middle school librarian Jennifer Hubert Swan with fantastic reviews of YA books organized by theme and genre

I Read Banned Books
Young Adult Book Reviews focusing on Intellectual Freedom

Kidlitosphere
A "meta-blog" site with links to any children's lit or YA lit blog you could ever hope to find

I’m Here, I’m Queer, Now What do I Read?

Guys Read
Booklists for guys of all ages

Green Bean Teen Queen
Children's, Tween and Teen Librarian's reviews (middle grades focus)

Reading in Color
Book blog that reviews YA/MG books about people of color

Teen Reads
Blog, reviews, contests, book lists for YA’s

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