Topic: Adolescent Literacy

This report provides basic information on reading, including an overview of critical literacy skills such as decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. Its focus is to support middle and high school teachers, as well as administrators and parents, in...

This literacy leadership brief from the International Literacy Association provides an overview of both content-area and disciplinary literacy practices, comparing the “umbrella terms” that define two different instructional approaches found within various subject areas or disciplines of study. The...

This practice guide from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides an overview of effective classroom and intervention practices for the adolescent learner (Grades 4–12). It includes five recommendations based on research findings, suggestions for implementing those recommendations in...

This downloadable e-book focuses on the interdependence of student motivation, engagement, and academic literacy. It includes chapters detailing findings from researchers at the University of Maryland and is based on the work of a five-year grant from NICHD. The...

Focused on improving classroom instruction for all adolescent learners as well as providing intervention instruction for students struggling with reading proficiency, this guidance document includes recommendations for improving adolescent student outcomes in academic literacy at the state-, district-, and...

This meta-analysis offers specific research-based teaching techniques for improving the writing proficiency of students in Grades 4–12. Eleven strategies are highlighted in the report including summarization, collaborative writing, prewriting, and inquiry activities as well as writing for the content...

This report provides an overview of the wide range of factors that impact adolescent learners, including physiological and cognitive components. It is one of a series of reports highlighting principles of adolescent learning and development as well as key...