The Secondary School Reading Grant Program supports middle schools, high schools, and vocational schools interested in developing a schoolwide approach to improving reading achievement. This approach includes: creating a school reading leadership team; analyzing the reading needs of all students; examining current school reading practices; and developing a school action plan that addresses student reading needs. This Massachusetts Department of Education webpage introduces the Secondary School Reading Grant Program, provides documents related to the initiative including the grant application, and lists the network meetings of grant recipients and posts information distributed at those meetings.
This resource might be interesting for states that would like to support literacy in their secondary schools.
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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.
