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Direct linkBottoms, Gene; Rock, Daniel; Tadlock, Joseph – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
Literacy is the foundation for success in school and society. An essential goal of every school is to help every student read, write and think critically. Dedicated teachers are the catalyst for reaching this goal. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) developed a literacy professional learning model to better support these dedicated…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Achievement Gap
Peer reviewedLee, Carol D. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
This commentary addresses the complexities of reading comprehension with an explicit focus on reading in the disciplines. The author proposes reading as entailing multi-dimensional demands of the reader and posing complex challenges for teachers. These challenges are intensified by restrictive conceptions of relevant prior knowledge and experience…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Intellectual Disciplines, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning
Heller, Rafael – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
In an October 2008 "JAAL" Commentary, Moje took issue with the teaching of generic reading strategies in the middle and high school content areas. She argued for teachers to provide "disciplinary literacy" instruction, focusing on the specific kinds of reading and writing that go on in content areas. The present article concurs with that argument…
Descriptors: High School Students, Middle School Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Compton, Donald L. – School Psychology Review, 2010
This article presents the authors' response to Sharon Vaughn and colleagues' article "Response to Intervention for Middle School Students With Reading Difficulties: Effects of a Primary and Secondary Intervention." In Vaughn et al. article, a study in which they provided professional development to content area teachers, with the goal of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Grade 6
Wolk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
The reading students are required to do for school bears little semblance to the reading they do outside of school. Students today are reading the same texts in school that students read a generation ago, but the varieties of text used outside of school are much different. One result is that many students are unmotivated to become readers.…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Material Selection, Reading Motivation, Relevance (Education)
Hammond, Jennifer – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2006
In this paper, I argue for a response to the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse students that is both high challenge and high support. In elaborating this argument I draw on an English literature programme that was designed for a year 7 boys' class (the first year of high school) in an Australian public school. The students in the…
Descriptors: English Literature, Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
