Supported Literacy for Adolescents, written by nationally recognized experts, introduces an innovative and field-tested instructional framework for preparing secondary students to succeed academically in a fast-changing and globally networked world. Filled with examples from science, history, literature, and special education classrooms, the book shows how teachers can enable diverse students, including under-performers, to develop critical thinking and other essential competencies along with the "multi-literacy" tools needed to engage in twenty-first century content learning.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
The Authors
The Contributors
Acknowledgments
Education Development Center
Chapter One A New Vision of Adolescent Literacy
Chapter Two Inside the Supported Literacy Framework
Chapter Three Using the Framework to Teach Content: A Science Unit
Chapter Four Teaching Writing to Understand Text: A Fiction Unit
Chapter Five Meaning Making with Special Education Students
Chapter Six Responding to Adolescent Reading Difficulties
Chapter Seven Engaging the Whole School in Supported Literacy
Key Terms
Appendix A Lesson Unit for “Understanding Climate Change”
Appendix B Lesson Unit for “How Far Would You Go to Fit In?”
Appendix C Reading Assessment: Sample Diagnostic Tests
Appendix D A Schoolwide Approach to Reading Difficulties
Appendix E Digital and Multimedia Tools for Content Inquiry
References
Index
