This classroom guide provides an overview of the nine reading comprehension strategies of the Vermont Reading Initiative and describes a number of "tools" that can be used to help students master each strategy. The report includes worksheets that help educators structure lesson plans and also gives educators frameworks to help them evaluate student work and progress and identify students who are falling behind. This document can help states support their districts, schools, and classrooms in implementation of statewide literacy efforts.
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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.
