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The Issue Topic for Volume 8 is "Teaching Comprehension in Primary Grades".
Comprehension strategy instruction should begin as early as grade 1, and it should be
explicit and practiced with all types of
classroom reading. The newsletter includes a link to a report by the Institute of Sciences
"Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade".
In addition there are recommended resources for Comprehension Instruction in Grades K-3.
What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
- A link to "Literacy Coaching in the Middle Grades" by McKenna and Walpole.
- A download of the July 2011 Policy Brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education "Assessing Deeper Learning."
- Other policy briefs from the Alliance for Excellent Education and recent articles that highlight the growing problem with literacy skills among high school graduates.
- Learn about the status of Federal funding for "Striving Readers" Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress.
- The Center of Instruction released a guidance document Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents.
- A collection of recommended resources
- The Center of Instruction published report of Bringing Literacy Strategies into Content Instruction: Professional Learning for Secondary-Level Teachers.
- Download a report of Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading.
- A downloadable report of Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy.
- Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century.
- Funding for Striving Readers a grant program to improve literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers.
- LEARN Act Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation.
- Several new reports commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation
- Quality Questioning
- Teaching Reading in Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?
- Questioning the Author
- www.designedinstruction.com
- www.adlit.org
- www.officeport.com
- www.Cs1.mcm.edu
- www.odu.com
- Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? includes a collection of graphic organizers for both narrative and expository text.
- Graphic Organizers and Implications for Universal Design for Learning: Curriculum Enhancement Report
- Reading Quest Includes a page on graphic organizers and the Power Thinking approach using top-down webs
- What Content Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy.
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices.
- Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners.
- Reading Next and Writing Next from the Alliance for Excellent Education website
- Classroom Instruction That Works
- Rewards Plus: Reading Strategies Applied to social Studies Passages
- Developing Metacognitive Skills from The Neuhaus Educator Center
- Reading Quest website that offers teaching tips for summarizing
- Alliance for Excellent Education website with their recent report, Literacy Instruction in Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Instruction
- There is a quality new website devoted to adolescent literacy issues, Adlit.org.
Click here for The Keys to Literacy Spring 2011 Newsletter
The Issue Topic for Volume 7 is "Content Literacy and the Common Core Standards (CCSS)".
In it there are Text Structure Teaching Tips, with discussion about Common Core Standards for Grades 5-12
and why is is so important for content teachers to play a stronger role in teaching literacy skills.
In addition you can download the full report "Student Readiness for Postsecondary Options."
Recommended Resources has a link to a video workshop and other links that pertain to Common Core Standards.
What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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The Issue Topic for Volume 6 is "Text Structure and Think Alouds ".
In it there are Text Structure Teaching Tips, with discussion about meta-cognition and think alouds,
with a link to the Common Core State Standards for Reading.
In addition there are our regular features of Recommended Resources and What's New in Adolescent Literacy.
What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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The Issue Topic for Volume 5 is "Note Taking ".
In it there are Note Taking Teaching Tips, with downloads for a t-shape template and classroom examples for two column notes.
In addition there are our regular features of Recommended Resources and What's New in Adolescent Literacy.
What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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The Issue Topic for Volume 4 is "Vocabulary — Teaching Word Parts".
In it there are Vocabulary Teaching Tips, with downloads for common prefixes, numerical prefixes, common suffixes and common roots.
In addition there are our regular features of Recommended Resources and What's New in Adolescent Literacy, which talks about
pending Federal Legislation and links to articles and reports.
What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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Generating Questions with Teaching Tips and Examples
Also included are Recommended Resources:
And What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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It covers the topic of Graphic Organizers — Topic Web
Also included are Recommended Resources:
And What's New in Adolescent Literacy:
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It covers the topic of Summarizing with Comprehension Teaching Tips and downloadable examples.
Also included are Recommended Resources:
And What's New in Adolescent Literacy: