CCSSO’s online adolescent literacy toolkit, developed with multiple partners and supported by the U.S. Department of Education, 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. The toolkit contains resources relevant to both state and local efforts to improve adolescent literacy. For states, it includes a professional development module that can be used to introduce the toolkit to local educators; the module may be tailored so states can connect the resources with their own adolescent literacy initiatives. Other tools such as a content literacy guide, a literacy self-assessment rubric, and sample lesson plans give teachers explicit examples of literacy best practices and highlight how those strategies play out across the different disciplines.
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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.
