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The goal of this book is to help address middle and high school classroom teachers', administrators', and parents' immediate need for basic information about how to build adolescents' reading and writing skills. Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and consider their personal lives. They will need literacy to cope with the flood of information they will find everywhere they turn. They will need literacy to feed their imagination so they can create the world of the future. Despite the call for today's adolescents to achieve higher levels of literacy than previous generations, approximately 8.7 million 4th-12th grade students struggle with the reading and writing tasks that are required of them in school. Ongoing difficulties with reading and writing figure prominently in the decision to drop out of school. These indicators suggest that literacy instruction should continue beyond the elementary years and should be tailored to the more complex forms of literacy that are required of adolescent students in middle and high school. The purpose of this book is to summarise and discuss the most recent adolescent literacy research and to describe promising research-based instructional practices that can improve an adolescent's academic reading and writing skills.

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Author:   National Institute for Literacy
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.184kg
ISBN:  

9781607411376

ISBN 10:   1607411377
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   21 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Decoding; What Do Good Readers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face Regarding Decoding?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Decoding?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Morphology; What Do Good Readers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Morphology?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Morphology?; What Do We Still Need To Know?; Fluency; What Do Good Readers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Fluency?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students Read Fluently?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Vocabulary; What Skills Do Good Readers Have?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Vocabulary?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Vocabulary?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Text Comprehension; What Do Good Readers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Text Comprehension?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Text; Comprehension?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Supporting Literacy Development Through Assessment, Writing, and Motivational Strategies; Reading Assessment; Summative Assessments; Formative Assessments; Diagnostic Assessments; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Writing; What Do Good Writers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Writing?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Writing?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; Motivation; What Do Motivated Readers Do?; What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Motivation?; How Can Instruction Help Adolescent Students with Motivation?; What Do We Still Need to Know?; The Needs of Diverse Learners; Conclusion; References; Additional References; Index.

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