Twenty-first century readers and writers need to:

Twenty-first century readers and writers need to:

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

Toward A Definition of 21st-Century Literacies

Adopted by the National Council of Teachers of English  (NCTE) Executive Committee on February 15, 2008