North Dakota’s Teaching Literacy to Struggling Adolescent Students is a workbook of research-based literacy practices that was created for Title I teachers to help them assist high school students who struggle with literacy skills. The workbook describes seven components of literacy instruction at the secondary level: focused instruction on comprehension; fostering student motivation for reading and literacy; embedding literacy instruction into content areas; effective professional development; assessment; vocabulary; and decoding/word analysis instruction for students who need it. The workbook details what each component would look like when applied in the classroom and includes resources for teachers.
This workbook could be helpful for any teacher who wants to improve the literacy skills of his/her secondary level students. It also describes how key literacy practices can be supported through a schoolwide program.
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Background and Context
Across the country states are struggling to establish sound literacy learning standards for adolescents and appropriate teacher preparation standards in literacy for teachers who will work with adolescents. At the secondary level, literacy should not only be addressed in the language arts curriculum, but it should play a central role in every subject area.
