CCSSO’s online adolescent literacy toolkit, was designed for state officials to use with districts and schools to encourage and prepare high school teachers to integrate literacy best practices and instructional strategies into their discipline-specific instruction.

This model seeks to ensure reading success by providing a comprehensive action plan for instruction. The Washington State K-12 Reading Model presents a framework to reform reading instruction, primarily aimed towards teachers. The ultimate aim of the framework is to teach children to read before grade three. The Model presents a guide to standards, assessment, instruction and intervention, leadership, and system-wide commitment, which are its core-principles. A comprehensive action plan is also presented in three phases which schools can enter at any point.

These self-assessment rubrics help educators identify the level of effectiveness of their literacy programs and plans and identify areas for improvement.

This resource provides a step-by-step approach to implementing Vermont's Nine Stategies for Reading Comprehension.

New Hampshire's Literary Action Plan for the 21st Century was designed to assist school and district leadership in implementing a comprehensive literacy program.

This presentation was designed to introduce and summarize New Hampshire’s Literary Action Plan for the 21st Century.

This document provides guidelines for creating Personal Literary Plans (PLPs) in Rhode Island’s schools to ensure all students are reading at grade level.

Beyond the Blueprint is a research-based publication addressing ongoing literacy programming for students in grades 4-12.

This Web page provides information about and resources for the Alabama Reading Initiative, a K-12 program designed to teach reading with methods that are scientifically proven effective.

The Louisiana Literacy Plan is designed to address the learning needs and raise the literacy rates of all students in grades PK through Adult Education in the state.

This webpage includes the Massachusetts PreK-12 Literacy Plan and various reports of the literacy task force regarding the plan.

This Massachusetts Department of Education webpage includes information about the state's Secondary School Reading Grant Program.

This website describes Pennsylvania's literacy framework, which spans from early literacy to lifelong learning.

This workbook lists seven research-based components of literacy instruction that can help support the literacy development of secondary level students.

This webpage, Read to Succeed: Kentucky's Literacy Plan, contains resources for reading and writing teachers.

Just Read, Florida is the website for the statewide reading initiative. The site offers resources for students, parents, and educators, with links to reading resources, current events, and related sites.

This resource is the webpage for Oregon's 2006 Strategies for Student Success Summer Institute; it catalogues resources from the event.

This report outlines the steps states must take in order to improve adolescent literacy standards, programs, and performance.

This report examines existing empirical research on intermediate and adolescent literacy, and demonstrates how this extensive knowledge can be used to help students of all ages become better readers.

This report discusses 11 teaching techniques for improving writing skill in grades 4-12.

This report offers guidance on how best to meet the varied and challenging literacy needs of adolescent English language learners as they struggle to learn English and be proficient in the core content areas they are learning through English.

This NGA Center for Best Practices report suggests that governors pursue five strategies to improve adolescent literacy achievement.