Creating literacy-rich schools for adolescents /

Main Author: Ivey, Gay.
Other Authors: Fisher, Douglas,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: adolescent literacy in perspective
  • Reading and writing in English classes
  • Transportable and transparent strategies for content literacy instruction
  • Time spent "just reading": a nonnegotiable
  • Interventions and support for struggling adolescents
  • Leadership and schoolwide support for literacy
  • Coda: a student's perspective on improving adolescent literacy
  • Appendix A: a call to action
  • Appendix B: adolescent literacy.