 Today NCTE and the Library of Congress announced two new instructional tools bringing primary sources to classrooms across the US. The copublished book Working with Primary Sources in the English Language Arts Classroom may be downloaded free of charge as a result of grant funding. This peer-reviewed collection of teaching ideas and assignments details ways in which ELA teachers have taught their students to examine Library sources critically. NCTE and the Library also published a searchable database of more than 150 strategies for teaching with digitized primary sources from the Library collection. The strategies were written by NCTE members to articulate specific literacy merit for curriculum or classroom use, along with suggested themes, units, and state standards. Both resources are openly available to educators in ELA and other areas with an interest in embedding primary source use in education programs to deepen learner engagement, literacy, critical thinking skills, and content knowledge. More than three dozen ELA teachers and leaders lent their expertise and time to this project. They were convened by NCTE through the Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources program. |
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