The Children's Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English advocates the centrality of literature for teaching children. We believe every teacher needs a wide and extensive knowledge base of books published for children and young adults.

To encourage high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children’s literature.

The Children’s Book Council is the national nonprofit trade association of children’s book publishers.

The IRA is a nonprofit, global network of individuals and institutions committed to worldwide literacy. The Association supports literacy professionals through a wide range of resources, advocacy efforts, volunteerism, and professional development activities.

The Michigan Reading Association is a nonprofit corporation that serves as a professional organization of individuals who are concerned with the improvement of reading and literacy.

MITESOL is an organization composed of a diverse group of administrators, educators, materials writers, researchers, and teacher trainers primarily from the state of Michigan involved in teaching students whose first language is not English.

The Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy.

Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed with honesty and integrity, and that all people know that our stories belong to us.

This site has classroom various resources. The lesson plans on ReadWriteThink are based on the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts and also are aligned to individual state standards and, when applicable, to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books.