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Download full textTorgesen, Joseph K.; Houston, Debra D.; Rissman, Lila M.; Decker, Susan M.; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Francis, David J.; Rivera, Mabel O.; Lesaux, Nonie – Center on Instruction, 2017
This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy. It comprises three major parts: Part One: "Improving academic literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12." Based on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy Education, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Jordan, Marean; Schoenbach, Ruth – Leadership, 2003
Describes collaborative efforts by the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd and secondary teachers and administrators in California to develop and implement an interactive approach to reading improvement called Reading Apprenticeship in an effort to help adolescent readers break through the "literacy ceiling" in all their subject area…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Area Reading, Interaction, Reading Improvement
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Direct linkFleming, Denise M.; Unrau, Norman J.; Cooks, Jamal; Davis, John; Farnan, Nancy; Grisham, Dana L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
In Single Subject preservice programs across the U.S., literacy professors are coping with the demands of preparing their candidates to teach reading and writing across the content areas. The professors are challenged to establish a credible rationale for why teachers in content areas such as physical education, art, and music should be required…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Methods Courses, Secondary School Teachers, Reading Skills
Schoenbach, Ruth; Greenleaf, Cynthia – 2000
For the past five years, colleagues in the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd have been designing and implementing a professional development program focused on enabling teachers to build their understanding of the complexities of reading. In developing this program, centered around what they call a "Reading Apprenticeship"…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, High Schools, Inquiry, Knowledge Base for Teaching
